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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
Exchange. "The role of intellectual capital is more important in this business than any other, except perhaps the pharmaceutical and computer science industries. Oil is a hugely volatile commodity that very few people want to play in, so... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
crises and of the response of western and central Europe to their gas dependence-I find that firms are driving these political outcomes; those firms are motivated by profits but employ sociological conventions along their ways; and firms View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806086 Comergent Technologies Inc.: Enterprise E-Commerce Harvard Business School Case 505-016 BP's IR director has begun a program to use information regarding external views of BP and the industry as part... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
commodity boom that had asymmetric effects among states. These two effects generated variation in revenues per capita at the state level thanks to the extreme form of fiscal decentralization that the Brazilian government adopted in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
nonprofit organization devoted to improving education for all children by attracting and preparing the next generation of outstanding leaders for urban public schools. NLNS aggressively recruits extremely talented people to become urban... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
neither of them were successful in getting their dissertation articles published. We also asked them to reflect on the twists and turns of academic publishing, and we asked Max Bazerman to integrate these reflections. Together, we hope to spark View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
distinguished economists who have studied the role of public support in generating innovation in other sectors of the economy. Over the last few years relatively few economists have studied energy innovation in any depth, but there has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24
This chapter proposes a new lens to understand corruption, using internal records collected from firms that pay bribes. We examine widespread corruption in three industries in an Asian developing country: procurement, pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009
prices for future consumption volatility but implies much greater predictive power of stock prices for future stock return volatility than is found in the data. Neither calibration can explain why movements in real interest rates do not View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
entrepreneur; your Airbnb host is an entrepreneur; your Etsy craftsperson is an entrepreneur. Because of technology, individuals don’t need to work for a company, and the cost of entry is just plain easier. “Number two: Everything at the core of our society is getting... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
about professional ritual, rhythms, and disciplines that underlie the general approach to what they did with the music as well. If you look at how theater ensembles work, there is a notion at the People's Light & Theatre Company, a... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
Dishonest Self-Reports Authors:Lisa L. Shu, Nina Mazar, Francesca Gino, Dan Ariely, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Many business and governmental interactions are based upon trust with the assumption that all actors generally comply with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
distinctions between "reorganization" and "liquidation." We examine the drivers of M&A activity, based on factors specific to Chapter 11 as well as more general factors that drive M&A waves for non-distressed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Frese's financial accounting class. I didn't even know what that day's case was but this was a supposed "safe class"—no cold-calling. Suddenly through my haze, I heard Professor Frese say: "Well, Mr. MacKinnon, perhaps you can tell us all how View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
reaping the benefits of FDI (which relate to when FDI will generate growth) and (2) the mechanisms by which FDI creates positive externalities (which relate to how FDI generates growth). Technology and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
asking, is this the right business model? But there are no answers. The market and technology are constantly changing," Riesenfeld remarks. Important Sounding Board The biotech industry presents similar challenges in a space littered with failed companies. When... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
failed companies. When Potentia Pharmaceuticals won the contest in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA 2001) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
does not scale as strongly with firm size as exploitation R&D. The resulting framework conforms to many regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations into our theoretical framework.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel