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- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53705 Developing Novel Drugs By: Krieger, Joshua, Danielle Li, and Dimitris Papanikolaou Abstract—We analyze firms' decisions to invest in incremental and radical innovation, focusing specifically on pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
Shane Greenstein Abstract—We examine the relationship between the diffusion of advanced Internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
interesting insights." In another line of research, Fearing is working with MIT faculty member Steve Graves, Ph.D. student Jason Acimovic, and Columbia University professor Mark Broadie to develop "Strokes Gained Putting," a new metric for the... View Details
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
an easy part of the picture to measure, and this is one more reason why it is important for organizations to develop clear and measurable outcome goals and commit to them. If outcome goals are not clear, the pressure for accountability... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
or sell. Payatas and the orderly, verdant Harvard Business School campus—nearly equals, as it happens, in terms of the acreage they occupy—are separated by a gulf far greater than any measure of miles or statistics. Yet as HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
equipment, and pharmaceuticals have invested significantly in modern mapping technology, using such innovations as enhanced clustering techniques, better measures for analyzing networks, and expanded data on bilateral, multilateral, and... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
productivity are hellishly difficult to sort out. This is due to the difficulty of measuring such amorphous factors as intellectual property creation and the long time lag before any expected return on investment. The sector's tendency to... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
because of poor eyesight, McNamara wanted to be close to the action in 1943 and helped man the US Office of Statistical Control in London, where he applied the statistical methods he had honed at HBS to monitor troop and supply movements, View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
home. But they also used real numbers to measure productivity and saw the exact opposite in the non-subjective evaluations, so there was a disconnect between what was perceived to be going on by employees vs. what the actual numbers were... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
on a test measuring divergent thinking tended to cheat more (Study 1); that dispositional creativity is a better predictor of unethical behavior than intelligence (Study 2); and that participants who were primed to think creatively were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
firms, which by definition have enjoyed some measure of success, are more likely to deny new realities because the old ones worked well for them. Young enterprises are not similarly weighed down by the dead hand of history. But that does... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
since the Great Depression. That is why Barack Obama and his team have been looking to Franklin Delano Roosevelt for help. The stimulus measure passed by Congress in February that includes money for building infrastructure, strengthening... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the diffusion of 15 technologies in 166 countries over the last two centuries. We evaluate the implications of our estimates for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
environments and does not seem to be explained by measurement error. Third, difference in differences estimates with respect to the cost of effort, due to weather shocks and popular sport events, reveal that the observed difference... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
plants provides "a measure of informality and diversity " Reprinted with permission from Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education, by Michel Anteby, published by the University of Chicago Press.©... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
Grants David F. HawkinsHarvard Business School Case 111-087 Analyst questions the value of accounting measurement of earnings per share and stock option costs for equity valuation purposes. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
economic theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to facilitate efficient capital allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP, as shaped by the economic forces of demand for and supply of financial information would focus on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting By: Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim Abstract—A key aspect of the governance process inside organizations and markets is the measurement and disclosure of important metrics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
decisions. Analysts and Advocates Sometimes it’s hard to measure exactly the impact that academic research has on government—or to tell in advance what kind of research will be useful, says David Moss. “As one member of Congress I worked... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding