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- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
which it can be seized. Context The macro-situation, which includes external factors, such as: technology development, customer desires, the state of the economy, industry trends, etc. DealThe structure of the deal, its View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
term channel awareness as well. We conclude by elaborating the underlying customer dynamics driving our findings and by offering implications for how online-first retailers might deploy omnichannel tactics. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
financing requirements—typically north of $500 million. Why study large projects? Because they offer clear examples into the process used by managers to make important financing and structuring decisions, he says. Another reason: Large... View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
negotiations and auctions are the only two ways in which assets get sold in any market economy. There's a deep literature on each of these mechanisms but very little on the interplay between the two—that messy, murky middle ground where most deals happen in today's... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
average in the period 1953-2005, it was particularly high in the early 1980s and negative in the early 2000s. This paper specifies and estimates a model in which the nominal term structure of interest rates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
Green and Black's, and Coca Cola purchasing a significant interest in HonestTea.) As the authors write, "Making a virtuous mouse and rich elephant merger work is a delicate, but potentially high-value undertaking in terms of... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
PublicationsChange Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change Authors:Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro Publication:Academy of Management Journal 55, no. 2 (April 2012) Abstract We develop a contingency theory for how View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
mailing address, their capital needs are minimal. People are intimately aware of the fact that too much structure will disenfranchise the very people who make the most successful open source projects possible. —Siobhán O'Mahony Second is... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
"structural breaks"-privatization, for example, or globalization-and assess why powerful actors across countries behaved similarly or differently in terms of network properties and corporate governance. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
As the pace of globalization speeded up from the 1960s, the term "multinational enterprise" (hereafter MNE) was coined, and there was an outpouring of discussion, much of it critical, about the political, social, and economic... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
What's next for Web services? In his case summary "Will Web Services Really Transform Collaboration?" published in the Winter 2005 edition of MIT Sloan Management Review, HBS associate professor Andrew P. McAfee argues that the benefits of Web services, in... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
the commitment and loyalty of employees who perceive themselves as the most disposable of corporate assets ." What will it take to turn around negative trends in "identity"? Ajay Kumar Gupta suggests that "creation of View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
paper specifies and estimates a model in which the nominal term structure of interest rates is driven by four state variables: the real interest rate, temporary and permanent components of expected... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
argue that the puzzling combination of high-frequency excess sensitivity and low-frequency decoupling between short- and long-term rates can be understood using a model in which (i) shocks to short-term interest rates lead to a rise in View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
structures you establish can make a big difference in fostering creativity. You should set up work groups so that people will stimulate each other and learn from each other, so that they're not homogenous in View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
influence of stewards and creators in the organization, so neither group always wins; (3) cultivate people who have credibility with both creators' and stewards and can help resolve conflicts; (4) use peer review to more accurately evaluate creators specialized... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
to pay the IOUs coming due." Financial markets can help that happen by offering mechanisms that enable capital to be allocated to companies and industries where it can be the most productive. The result is structural changes in the... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
and reasonable terms. "The LOA process [is] to ask patent holders if they are willing to grant licenses on Reasonable and Non Discriminatory terms," the brief reads. "The term 'reasonable,' however, is inherently vague, and... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
countries that differ greatly in terms of wealth (Canada, Uganda, and India). Finally, in Study 3, participants in Canada and South Africa randomly assigned to buy items for charity reported higher levels of positive affect than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
Working PapersThe Architecture of Complex Systems: Do Core-Periphery Structures Dominate? Authors:Alan MacCormack, Carliss Baldwin, and John Rusnak Abstract Any complex technological system can be decomposed into a number of subsystems... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace