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- 15 Sep 2015
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September 15, 2015
an associated 90% confidence interval of (2.3%, 17.8%). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49523 2015 The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2012
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First Look: May 1
IBM Authors: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein, and Rebecca M. Henderson Publication: In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 2012... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
and affiliated physicians. Over the last two decades, through a combination of active legal defense and medical error prevention, the RMF has successfully controlled the medico-legal costs of physicians practicing at the Harvard teaching... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
three months—have died. The lives that he and his Payatas neighbors lead resemble those of other inhabitants of the chaotic megacities of Latin America, Asia, and Africa whose daily existence, in the words of journalist George Packer, is "the furious View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
structure but also competitive realities, region by region. In North America, for example, Philips's principal objective continues to be to rebuild its positions and achieve satisfactory levels of performance in the all-important U.S. market. Its View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
customer at a time. And then—with her family and other colleagues' help—she created a global leader in the industry. Schultz did the same thing with Starbucks. So did Dell. And each stuck with the enterprise as it grew and changed. For example, Lauder was very View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
in-depth Harvard Business School case studies of almost two dozen companies in order to chronicle their activities and their changes over time. I wanted that scope of research because I wanted to be confident that I really understood this... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
members to help select winning designs. Threadless encouraged community members to actively participate by critiquing submitted designs, blogging about their daily lives, posting songs and videos inspired by the designs, and, most... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
to compare rigorously which offers the better path to sustainability, but a case can be made that the application of entrepreneurial talents to activities beyond for-profit business (of which conservation is one example) might be a more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the accrual choices of outsourcing firms with links to U.S. congressional candidates during the 2004 elections, when corporate outsourcing was a major campaign issue. We find that politically connected firms with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006
differences in motives and activities of not-for-profit organizations, and the need to develop additional theories to address those differences in explaining interorganizational arrangements between them. The Structural Determinants of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
activity that most people at the School gradually come to expect. School members' ability to spot such changes underlines the care with which grounds are maintained but also suggests an acquired taste for expecting neatness. That most... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007
of two software product platforms through the modeling lens of design structure matrices (DSMs) and design rule theory. Our analysis shows that DSM models and options theory can explain how real-world modularization activities in one case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
and acting. He concluded that tactical and strategic victory hinges on cycling through this loop faster than the enemy (or by disrupting the enemy's ability to connect those activities efficiently). The first two elements—observing and... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
Monitoring and intrusion-detection tools routinely log computer activity on company networks and highlight patterns of suspicious activity, changes in software, or patterns of communication and access. Some companies turn off... View Details
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
What might be most intriguing, however, is the activity beyond the halls of government that has focused on the corporation's role in society. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have worked tirelessly in recent years to establish... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
opportunities for both independence and active engagement of their most talented employees. Since many companies can get their hands on the same technology, the same markets, the same production methods and the same distribution channels... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
safe and from a large supply of investors who view them as such. Domestic Effects of the Foreign Activities of U.S. Multinationals Authors:Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Publication:American Economic Journal:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
performance. Overall, our study suggests that senior managers' physical presence on their organizations' frontlines was not helpful unless it enabled active problem solving. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
activity on a massive scale-devising strategies that provide employment for the billions now outside the system, inventing business models that make better use of scarce resources, and creating institutional arrangements for coordinating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne