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- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
venture, which attracted interest from six mentors, a venture that attracted twice as much interest was 27 percent more likely to commercialize (which Shu and her colleagues defined as having multiple repeated sales, an Amazon storefront,... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Product Liability Litigation and Innovation: Evidence from Medical Devices
By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
We examine the relationship between product liability litigation and innovation by systematically
combining data on product liability lawsuits with data on new product introductions in a panel dataset of
leading medical device firms. We first document a decline in... View Details
Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Safety; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Galasso, Alberto, and Hong Luo. "Product Liability Litigation and Innovation: Evidence from Medical Devices." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-063, March 2024.
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
systems were in need of an update, and since GLBG last made heavy IT investments in the late 1990s, the technology had changed considerably. GLBG sought Rechtin’s advice on whether or not it should build a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
investment in Duck Creek Technologies, a technology provider for property & casualty insurance companies. The deal required a complex carve-out from Accenture, Duck Creek’s parent organization, and... View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
physical world is performed more efficiently in the virtual world. "Jobs are going away from many traditional sectors, and they aren't coming back," Deighton notes. "It's certainly a whole new... View Details
- 14 Jun 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
“Power from Sunshine”: A Business History of Solar Energy
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
From resolving a labor dispute to orchestrating a merger to getting a new company off the ground, negotiation plays a vital role in nearly every facet of business. In response, Professor James Sebenius,... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
either full or part time, while only 13 percent said they don’t want to work remotely at all post-COVID-19. In fact, the pandemic has accelerated the virtual work trend, acting as a no-going-back turning point for many companies, according to Neeley’s View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
the fact that they are often breaking new ground. . . . "A lot of people think that dot-coms in Asia are just taking U.S. technology and replicating the same business models. That may have been a valid... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
Thanks to the Internet, entrepreneurs are no longer confined to a local geography when building a new business—the world can be their market from day one. But building a startup as a global business requires... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking research with micro-data from these labor platforms. We undertake new empirical analyses of Upwork data regarding 1) the alignment of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
from Asia, for example, requires weeks for transit alone, not even considering coordination time. Product cycles are shortening, and less lead time allows companies to wait longer to make decisions on quantity, features, style, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
It’s India Above China in New World Order
will be tomorrow." How these two models play out has great significance not just for Asia but also for other parts of the world that want to benefit from their lessons and avoid their mistakes. Huang and Khanna recently collaborated... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2014
- Working Paper
The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game
By: Karen G. Mills and Brayden McCarthy
Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation's private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. Yet in recent... View Details
Mills, Karen G., and Brayden McCarthy. "The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-004, July 2014.
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
agglomeration economies, including capital-good market externality and technology diffusion, play a particularly important role in multinationals' economic geography. These findings remain robust when we use alternative measures of trade... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
implementations of TTC. Data from New Orleans and Boston indicate that there is little difference across these versions of TTC but significantly less justified envy compared to a serial dictatorship.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
provided more opportunities for catch-up from the Rest. Firms from emerging markets had the opportunity to access the global networks that replaced large integrated firms. There were also View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
2018 Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism American Capitalism: New Histories By: Beckert, Sven, and Christine Desan, eds. Abstract—The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its... View Details
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
very ecumenical, flexible, and open to new ideas and people. It learns from best practices in other countries, and it adapts accordingly. A prime example is America's absorption of Japanese manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons