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- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America’s small businesses, which tend to be heavily credit dependent. While some aspects of the economy have recovered in the years since, small businesses have struggled, primarily due... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
fast-food chain Chicken Republic, and Ayo Oduntan, founder of an integrated Nigerian poultry operation (Amo Byng Group), are among a growing cadre of skilled food-industry entrepreneurs for whom the opportunities to serve the Nigerian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
theoretically from the WMS and other recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
wasn't the issue—the division still had the superior technology overall. Nor was talent a problem—Becton Dickinson continued to retain the skilled engineers that had made it the leader in its field. The organization's design didn't seem... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
tax avoidance activity. These "book-tax" gaps are shown to be larger when firms are alleged to be involved in tax shelters. OLS estimates indicate that the average effect of tax avoidance on firm value is not significantly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
about the world of noncompetes before you embarked on this study. How did you get interested in studying them vis-à-vis inventor mobility? What gap in the research did you want to investigate? Matt Marx: You're right; this topic drew... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
worked are positively correlated with firm performance, and differences between family and non-family CEOs account for approximately 18% of the performance gap between family and non-family firms. We investigate the sources of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
Government in the Global Economy Author:Richard H. K. Vietor Publication:Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Abstract As the world globalizes, countries compete for the markets, technologies, and skills needed to raise their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
workers? One answer to these questions is that immigrants possess skills that are complementary to those of natives, and the latter end up specializing in jobs that have higher earnings prospects. A second answer is that the economy... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
adapting the skills and practices of entrepreneurship for the public sector,” he says. Before joining the HBS faculty and creating the MBA course Public Entrepreneurship, Weiss was chief of staff to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. In 2010,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
makes huge investments to acquire, develop, and market concepts with strong hit potential, and then banks on the sales of those titles to make up for the middling performance of their other content. Today's leading film studios,... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
costs and profit margins; initial sales also influence the venture's trajectory of organizational skills because firms develop capabilities and routines in interactions with customers. There is also an opportunity cost: money, time, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
Marquis, Jianjun Zhang, and Yanhua Zhou Publication:California Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract We develop a framework to analyze the closing gap between regulation and enforcement of environmental protection in China and present... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
Oprah that business leaders can learn from in the twenty-first century. —Nancy Koehn Paraphrasing her HBS colleague, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Koehn said, "In the middle of every initiative, journey, or big project, it will feel like a... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
have those high days rather than a lot of middle days—that's why I didn't go back to corporate America." . . . One of the most ambitious current experiments in "knowing" and "being known" has taken shape recently... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
products, including SVAR, a spoken-English evaluation; Automata, a programming skills evaluator; a customer service test; and TESLA, a suite of products that assessed and provided certification for vocational skills. The company had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
competitive advantage"-and one of their core skills has to be quick and effective response when the travelers on one of their trips are exposed to flood, famine, pestilence, disease, earthquakes, tsunamis, terrorism, and other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
without charge to end users, so advertising is everywhere. But advertising security gaps are equally widespread: from "malvertisement" banner ads pushing rogue anti-spyware software, to click fraud, to spyware and adware, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
failed to address important measurement and valuation issues that have arisen in the past 40 years of practice. This gap is illustrated with missed opportunities in risk measurement and management and the estimation of the fair value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
within pre-existing cognitive categories and therefore do not benefit from a pre-existing understanding or identity of an industry. Given the importance of identity, it is critical that we understand how the identity of a new industry is generated. I attempt to address... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace