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- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Publications October 2014 Journal of International Economics The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen Abstract—The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Feedback
inexpensively on a desktop. I ran a small “Skunk Works”-like program at Lockheed Martin in the early 1990s that produced the IKONOS satellite, the first high-resolution commercial satellite that has evolved over time into an industry... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Clinton’s advance staff, experience launching a low-cost airline in China, and time at UBS Warburg’s London office. Ogden, whose CV includes various roles in finance and the nonprofit sector, worked most recently for Bridges Ventures, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
fundamental decisions for any business: where to play, how to deliver, and how to win. Where to Play. Entrepreneurs must target downturn needs such as superior value relative to existing players or provide good substitutes for the necessities that consumers have to... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
As people get more accustomed to using the Internet to conduct business transactions, their demands will become more sophisticated. Cyberspace is jam-packed with startups trying to second-guess what consumers of the future will want. "Whole new View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Working PapersThe Industry R&D Survey — Patent Database Link Project Authors:William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu Abstract This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
for firms from industrialized economies and negative effects for firms in other emerging economies, which are less export-intensive and more import-intensive. Motivated by these facts, we build a dynamic model in which real depreciations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
still come from one source, search and advertising, despite the organization's emphasis on providing time and an organization for innovation among its associates. I remembered the airline Song, which had introduced service innovations... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
for Peanuts recounts how Lorenzo grew his empire from nothing and helped shape the airline industry as we know it. The son of Spanish immigrants, Lorenzo put himself through Columbia College by driving a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
marketing and psychology. Moon is a recipient of the HBS Student Association Award for teaching excellence and has twice received a Hellman Faculty Fellowship, presented annually to a junior faculty member for outstanding research. Are there View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
second year,” he says. Gardner has built Kyruus into an industry leader in providing search, scheduling, and data management services for health systems. Simplifying the Process “We don’t define what is right for the patients. Our job is... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
collisions with other trains, loose rails, and fires in wooden cars occurred with some frequency in the first decades of the railroads. But the industry soon grew more organized and invested in extensive track and bridge construction.... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
transparency and weak governance in resource rich countries. However, we document that industry self-regulation has generated information to substitute for the gap in voluntary company disclosure. We also find some evidence that these... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
and Derek Jeter at the launch of the Luvo food truck this summer in New York City. (Courtesy of Luvo) Growth for the three-year-old Luvo, though, requires overcoming a few cultural hurdles. While frozen-food sales spiked at the outset of the recession, the View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
wine-making. But apartheid had prevented them from owning land or gaining access to capital. Wine had become a $3 billion export industry for South Africa, but just 2 percent of the market was held by black South Africans, who comprise 85... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
to sell insurance in the country. During the next five years China's non-life insurance industry grew from $8.3 billion in 2001 to $15.9 billion in 2005. Yet in 2007, domestic insurers continued to dominate market share and, Chubb had not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities. Innovative activity tends to be more concentrated than industrial activity, and we discuss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
prevalent for large diversified companies that operate in many different businesses. Financial analysts and investors may have an especially difficult time understanding what's going on in these companies, or may lack the industry... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform
are entire industries that have been created to help avoid paying taxes and find creative ways around compensating people, he said. "There's a lot of aiding and abetting that goes on in this kind of environment and I think it's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Adam Kanner
modeled his concept on the travel and hospitality industries which employed dynamic pricing and relied on successful outlets like Priceline, Expedia and others to sell airline seats and hotel rooms in a... View Details