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- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
academic cultures, structures, and traditions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51876 Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William Kerr Abstract—Technological progress builds upon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
best uses of technology and other support systems create frontline service heroes and heroines, so leaders use technology to elevate the most important and eliminate the worst service jobs; (7) satisfying... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
and boot it up and all of a sudden it works. It's anything but that. Q: In your preface, you explain that there has been less progress in the strategy field understanding the interaction between economic forces and organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
contribution to Asia's economic progress and the characteristics (and limitations) of a leading university, Professor Emeritus Daniel Quinn Mills lays out his recommendations for building a world-class university in Asia, including how to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
based on those forecasts, the highlights of their observations, and prescriptive thoughts based on our analysis of their ideas. The executives identified 10 powerful forces that had the potential to disrupt the progress flowing from the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
Recovery (A) Deishin Lee, Baris Ata, and Mustafa H. TongarlakHarvard Business School Case 611-033 This case describes the waste management industry and a clean technology solution for landfill diversion and renewable energy production.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
process of deep restructuring. Traditionally, indexing and active investment were mixed together in products such as mutual funds. The massive growth of cost-efficient indexing, derivative products and technological View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
around the globe. As he considers 3i's performance through the first quarter of 2006 (3i's fiscal year 2006), he must balance his satisfaction at the firm's results and progress in the recent buoyant market with the question of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
problems—particularly by business itself — will help keep our system of capitalism democratic and in sync with the larger interests of the nation. Paul Healy: We may have been through these experiences before, but it's shocking where we have ended up, given all the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
exponential technological progress has led to a dramatic decrease in information constraints. In a range of contexts, information costs approach zero. In this chapter, we discuss how sharply reduced... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of intermediate progress and solutions or of completed innovations. We present experimental evidence that links intermediate versus final disclosure not just with quantitative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
thought that their technical knowledge of best manufacturing practices (to take one example) was sufficiently developed that processes simply needed to be tweaked to fit local conditions. More often, it turns out, they have to be reworked quite radically-not because... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
self-employment is positive at the median. The option to return to paid work is large enough to reverse the result from cross-sectional studies that the median man expects to earn significantly less from self-employment. However, after accounting for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
absorptive capacity has been to locate new R&D facilities in close geographic proximity to technology "hotspots" like Cambridge, Massachusetts, or the San Francisco Bay Area. Such a strategy is predicated on the assumption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
information. Technological progress had made it considerably easier to hear from NYC residents. Were those gains from innovation being shared equally? More recently, the city began using the data to create... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
heterogeneity is both generative and occasionally confusing. We identify three distinct areas of research that provide insight into how teams learn to stimulate cross-area discussion and future research. We find that scholars have made View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Fink had asked Global Head of HR Jeff Smith to outline to the GEC the firm's Diversity and Inclusion efforts, benchmarking its progress against eight practices associated with building more inclusive cultures. At the July 2014 off-site,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
show that politicians use school ties as a mechanism to engage in vote trading ("logrolling"), and that alumni networks help facilitate the procurement of discretionary earmarks. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/malco.pdf 2006 pub... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
project, if completed successfully, would mark another step in TCS's progression from a provider of low-cost technical resources to their goal of becoming an end-to-end technology-enabled services provider. However, the project was not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace