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  • 19 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 19

claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

source software ("OSS"). What drives companies with large, proprietary software portfolios to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in OSS? We approach this question by grouping a sample of OSS projects into clusters and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Capitalism’s False Mantra

the game in ways that diminish the customer experience.” Change the rules of capitalism? Something to mull over as you tune in your favorite football team this fall. — Sean Silverthorne View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives, and the firms they controlled as driving actors in national economies and international growth. Alongside an original introduction, we have selected work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

unsolicited gifts will be equally appreciated. At the root of this dilemma is a difference of opinion about what purchasing an unsolicited gift signals: gift givers expect unsolicited gifts will be considered more thoughtful and considerate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 10

ethically by cheating less. We further found that priming time reduces cheating by making people reflect on who they are. Implications for the use of time versus money primes in discouraging or promoting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016

Mela, a three-month-long Hindu festival. We estimate that the festival was attended by 61 million people, making it the largest gathering in the history of humanity. While we find strong overall evidence for both types of homophily for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

Is there any distribution system more poorly conceived than the one used by most U.S. car manufacturers and dealers? In the prevailing system, car prices are initially jacked up by locked-in labor... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016

new ones. The authors contend that by understanding what causes customers to "hire" a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products that customers not only want to hire, but that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

Review (forthcoming) Abstract Companies in Victorian Britain operated in a laissez-faire legal environment from the perspective of outside investors, implying that such investors were not protected by the legal system. This article seeks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

differentiate "quality FDI" in several different ways. First, we look at the possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Inspiration Is Not Enough

familiar to HBS alumni. But the author makes them fresh by applying his nearly 30 years of VC experience at Warburg Pincus to digest the crucial ingredients required to build a long-running, society-shaping enterprise. His underlying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 25 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 25

Institutional Investors Frame Their Losses: Evidence on Dynamic Loss Aversion from Currency Portfolios Authors:Kenneth A. Froot, J. Arabadjis, S. Cates, and S. Lawrence Publication:Journal of Portfolio Management (forthcoming) Abstract Currency investors exhibit a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

approaches can be reconciled through the Lean Strategy process, which ensures that startups innovate in a disciplined fashion and make the most of their limited resources by knowing "what not to do." Deliberate strategy sets the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

seven “C” attributes shared by effective coronavirus leaders. Calm. Your folks, your employees, your customers, your suppliers, are going to be looking to you as a leader to project a sense of calm through this difficult, uncertain... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 18, 2006

  Working PapersNone available this week   Cases & Course MaterialsThe Company Sale Process Author:William E. Fruhan Jr. Harvard Business School Note 206-108 Lays out the steps, timeline, and process by which a company is sold.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 24

definition of profit by changing accounting rules. On one level, this corporate behavior embodies the capitalist spirit articulated by Milton Friedman: "The social responsibility of business is to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne conducted an email interview with Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria about their new book, Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices.Silverthorne: How did the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019

publishes summaries of working papers written by Harvard Business School faculty—along with links to the full text of those papers. Here are the five most downloaded working papers of 2019: Corporate Sustainability: A Strategy? This study... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

In most companies, no one knows and understands your customers and their changing needs better than the marketing department. Certainly that knowledge should be routinely presented and understood by the chief executive and board of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne