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- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
amount of variation in conflict intensity both across and within civil conflicts. Some conflicts result in huge numbers of battle deaths, while others do not. Conflict intensity is also dynamic. Conflict intensity escalates, deescalates,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
capture value from intellectual property (IP). We define what it means for a system to be "IP-modular," and illustrate the application of this concept in a number of practical situations. From the examples, we derive a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Dr. Jason Diliper, the attending Chief Resident in charge of Mr. Samson, irresponsibly threatened Mr. Samson's health by leaving his bedside while Mr. Samson was having difficulty breathing. Diliper had been a rising star at the hospital, but lately a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
gas flow into the can and explode. (While all of the data that I am using about the Walmart stories are from publicly available sources, it should be noted that I served as an expert witness in the case of Melvin v. Walmart, Inc.) This had occurred in many dozens of... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
its accounting practices with a focus on the key risks and opportunities facing the company. The case requires students to put themselves in the shoes of Marc Cohodes to understand the business model and accounting numbers and to identify... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
People cope with their own questionable actions in a number of ways, from forgoing certain experiences to rationalizing, justifying, and forgetting-a remarkable range of strategies allowing them to maintain a clear conscience even under... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
financial services that Washington D.C.-based Microfinance International Corporation (MFIC) had been providing for two years to a growing number of "unbanked" Hispanic nationals in the United States and their home countries.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
that they click fewer advertisements, controlling for the number of advertisements they actually click. Results are most pronounced for commercial searches and for vulnerable users with low education and little online experience. Read the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
2015 The Social Psychology of Good and Evil Dishonesty Explained: What Leads Moral People To Act Immorally By: Gino, F., and D. Ariely Abstract—The last two decades have witnessed what seems to be an increasing number of cases of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
stake in a number of portfolio companies at Fair Market Value. As they conside whether to exercise their option to purchase Bain Capital's stake in Artisan Entertainment, the company has an extremely successful launch of "The Blair... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
therapies for a given disease and promised a number of efficiency improvements. They also used statistical techniques to allow more patients access to promising therapies. As such, they had the potential to fundamentally change the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
incentives make a difference in whether global warming and its fallout are contained. A growing number of climate solution startups count on government spending to give their customers purchasing power and a reason to buy. State and local... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
Science of Viral Ads Author:Thales Teixeira Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract It's the holy grail of digital marketing: the viral ad, a pitch that large numbers of viewers decide to share with family and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
important open-ended question: What does a positive outcome mean to you? "We were getting all these different answers, and very few of them mentioned survival," Feeley says. "We came to the realization—as did ICHOM in doing similar work on an... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
were just not the ones other scholars were talking about. I wanted to read and write about those books. I first had the idea of hanging the book's structure on Cary when I saw on my shelf a number of increasingly voluminous translations... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
entrepreneurs from the others, to see if we can find overall best practices that might help guide entrepreneurs. This effort includes two parallel projects. The first entails more sophisticated and detailed quantitative analyses of my datasets. The second is a richer... View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
South Africa at a rate about one-third of that flowing into Latin America or East Asia. Q: According to the statistics on FDI in your new case, in "all countries" FDI is 2.7 percent of GDP. South Africa is 1.5 percent. A: Exactly. Another reason why the FDI... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
industry leaders? How competitive are existing, well-capitalized companies when they compete against user-manufacturers? Although there have been a number of studies on user innovation, little if any work has been done on the... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
which carries highly divergent financial and impact potential. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318004-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 418-035 Cowen Inc.: Leveraging Data Cowen Inc.’s broker-dealer, Cowen and Company, LLC, boasted a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman