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  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

advantage. America needs a manufacturing renaissance-for restoring itself and for the global economy as a whole. This will require major changes. Pisano and Shih show how company-level choices are key to the sustained success of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

behavior and preferences into service cost and productivity standard metrics. Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios Authors:W. Jakub Jurkek and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Review of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We develop an analytical solution to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

injunction based on the Nuance engineers' noncompetes. The flip side of the coin is that employers can exploit these differences by locating in areas such as Silicon Valley where noncompetes do not block one's ability to recruit talent.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

organizations and in the right locations to deliver high-value care. The strategy for moving to a high-value health care delivery system comprises six interdependent components: organizing around patients' medical conditions rather than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

Next Normal

transactional. I’ve never met anyone I work with in real life.” —Emily Anadu (MBA 2005) “It is actually possible to get meaningful work done remotely from multiple time zones and remote locations via video conference. I came in a big... View Details
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

Abstract— The IBM PC was the first digital computer platform that was open by as a matter of strategy, not necessity. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the IBM PC as a technical system and set of organization choices in light... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, reveals broad patterns about the use of alternative financing terms. These patterns help... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2024
  • News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

is really all about ensuring that states and the federal government have the education-employment data systems in place to enable everyone involved—learners, institution leaders, policymakers, and even employers—to be able to make well-informed View Details
  • 15 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 15, 2016

is that fiscal risk and social risk interact in complex ways. When considering many potential projects, government cost-benefit analysis thus acquires the flavor of a portfolio choice problem. We use the model to explore how the relative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

that the effect is predominantly driven by innovators located in the states passing the reforms. Tort laws have the strongest impact in medical fields in which the probability of facing a malpractice claim is the largest, and they do not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

relationships between this philosophy and well-being. We asked participants to answer two binary choice questions: Is life short or long? And, is life easy or hard? Across a series of studies, the majority of participants indicated that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

leading players in these clusters are multi-location firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage knowledge for competitive advantage without... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

also find evidence that the behavior of lower-level managers is consistent with the incentives created by the weighting of nonfinancial performance measures in promotion decisions. Managers in locations where there is a higher ex ante... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

across space? Why does the law of gravity apply? How do the costs of transporting goods, tasks, and technologies influence firms’ decisions to separate tasks geographically and locate relative to one another? We discuss a variety of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

offer a useful approach to a positive optimal tax theory. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2425225   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 514-033 Barbara Krakow Gallery The Barbara Krakow Gallery is a successful contemporary art... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

facilitate efficient information sharing but can also increase the possibility of favoritism. Using the investment choices of mutual funds in China, we test whether funds with close ties to their investees make timelier investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

approach will not work if it’s left to individual choice to come in when people feel like it; it must be structured, so that people are together in predictable ways for the parts of the work that present the most interdependence. So... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

core function in a business of making anything from widgets to washing machines to life-saving drugs. McDonald's sells burgers worldwide, but the way it does so has to change from location to location, adapting to the institutional voids... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2023
  • News

Step Change

investment (one made as managing director at Global Ventures), demonstrating that impact and profit aren't mutually exclusive. "I want founders and entrepreneurs to be wealth creators and invest in their communities and families," Enan says. "And I also want to have... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

store grew, the space became so crowded that at times the copier was rolled out onto the sidewalk and used for self-service customers. Today, some analysts estimate annual revenues from the privately held chain's 850 business services and copy shops - which are View Details