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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
program on dynamic capabilities needs to be reset around the fundamental strategic problem facing firms: how to identify and select capabilities that lead to competitive advantage. To this end, the article develops a framework that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
of problems that cannot be predicted in advance must be resolved. Dealing with uncertainty requires different organizational choices in terms of team design, contract structure, and IP management. Consider, for example, a typical practice... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
salary allocations to online ad clicks to admission decisions. Working PapersSecurities Litigation Risk for Foreign Companies Listed in the U.S. Authors:Beiting Cheng, Suraj Srinivasan, and Gwen Yu Abstract We study securities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial in avoiding the all-too-familiar... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
growth comes from three sources—marketing actions (price and advertising), direct network effects (e.g., buyer to buyer effects), and indirect network effects (e.g., buyer to seller effects). Using this growth model we concurrently solve the firm's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
806-148 Describes the sixth and final module of the Harvard Business School MBA second-year elective course Legal Aspects of Management. This module deals with the way firms should approach business risks in order to avoid legal liability and how firms can use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
research suggests that the random coefficients logit is a highly flexible model that overcomes the problems of the homogeneous logit by allowing for differences in tastes across individuals. The purpose of this paper is to show that this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
to allocate their time to gaining more experience with the task-to the detriment of their learning. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47062 Making a Difference: Leader Evaluation, Selection, and Impact... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
traffic are sufficiently improved relative to the offerings of the ad auctions when separate. When there is an insufficient improvement, such mergers can harm advertisers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-055.pdf Investing in Improvement: Strategy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
rigorous methods to problems of great social importance, tirelessly championing multi-level analyses of problems that matter. His impact on our field has been immense. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
SOS-KDI in the Andean countries. "Nevertheless, it will be worthwhile to observe it for several years before making a judgment. We can only learn by experimenting." This debate and other challenges facing SOS-KDI, such as how to determine the cost-effectiveness of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
that RCMs are more precise at allocating firm heterogeneous effects to model slopes and intercepts than standard regression models. We also discuss RCMs’ possible limitations due to sample size requirements, nonconvergence problems, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
hit-or-miss at most firms. Tackling the problem systematically, of course, will improve the odds of success. Traditional ways of framing this search examine competencies, customer needs, and shifts in the landscape. This article proposes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
deploy a manager to one of several possible contexts is endogenous to unobservable factors, and selection makes it challenging to disentangle the effect of workplace context on individual career advancement. We work around this problem by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
and the established literatures on resource allocation and incumbent spin-outs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51520 Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
detailed data on how their CEOs allocate their work time, which we define as their span of activity. Span of activity provides a direct measure of the CEO's management style, including the attention devoted to specific subordinates and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
of capital commitments) were in such alternative vehicles; the allocation increased by more than 10 percentage points over the last decade. Alternative vehicles were far more likely to be offered by larger and North America–based buyout... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
to pose a problem for the economy. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52111 Seeking to Belong: How the Words of Internal and External Beneficiaries Influence Performance By: Green, Paul, Francesca Gino,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
Enhances the Effectiveness of Fear Appeals,” showed the approach to be more effective than ads that just used scare tactics, such as the image of a coffin.) “Ten minutes into the conversation Jim said, ‘Lee, I get it. I know exactly what the View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
schools for all. In the end many states adopted both policies-a combination that proved enormously powerful. The problem today is that too many have come to view politics as war, where victory is paramount and "compromise" is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne