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- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic patent trolls. NPEs sue cash-rich firms-a one standard deviation increase in cash holdings increases a firm's chance of being targeted by NPE litigation more than fourfold. We find moreover that NPEs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
marketed its products as family food, targeting its messages to children as well as adults. Expanding slowly also gave Pujals the chance to work out and test his business model. He was able to determine exactly what sort of investments he... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
post–Civil War era to commission-based canvassers hired and trained by manufacturers to sell agricultural products and books by Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, for instance. “Drummers,” who acted as the middlemen between manufacturers... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2414478 Information and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Wesley Brandi Abstract—We examine online affiliate marketing programs in which merchants oversee thousands of affiliates they have never met. Some... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Counterfactual simulations of our structural model show large gains from screening potential hires via psychometric measurement and training to improve managerial practices. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
turnaround of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in the 2002-2003 season? Was it Paul Pressler as head of Disney Sports, because he got investment funds from Disney CEO Michael Eisner and then hired Bryan Murray? Was it Bryan Murray as the general... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
what you have done?" Williams asked. "No," admitted Tracy. "I'm going to change that," he said. In its first few years, the fund concentrated on raising money to support research, even hiring a research director to keep tabs on their... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
short term. Unlike the typical partisan play, we’re investing resources with a long-term goal: We’re not just expecting results in the next election, which is a pretty unusual way to engage in politics, unfortunately. We’re taking the time to make sure the system is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
greater flexibility in her work as well as in her lifestyle. One of her clients, General Electric, soon hired her as a program manager in the Corporate Environmental Programs department at its Fairfield, Connecticut, headquarters. During... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
everything that the business needs, from raising financing, to customer interactions, to sales and marketing, to product development. It’s a challenge to be able to cover, as an individual and even as a small team, all those bases, and know the things that you need to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
community, see this new government as the now-or-never chance to finally set the country on solid footing. But Mitsotakis is clear that his goal is not growth at any cost, and it’s not just about business interests: To truly transform... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
giving first-time offenders, particularly our youth, a second chance at righting their wrongs,” says Huntsman. And there’s the bottom line to consider as well. “All told, it can cost our communities anywhere from $2,000 to $5,000 to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
toward self-discovery. Just Work: Get Sh*t Done, Fast & Fair By Kim Malone Scott (MBA 1996) St. Martin’s Press From Kim Scott, author of the revolutionary New York Times–bestseller Radical Candor, comes Just Work: Get Sh*t Done, Fast &... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Boston derails his life. Expelled from school, with a cloud over his head, he jumps at a chance opportunity to interview for a job in Paris, hoping for a fresh start away from everyone who knows his past. Alone in a foreign land, Mason is... View Details
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
land, construction, hiring, and so on. Yet overconfidence remains the norm; in a study by Arnold Cooper of Purdue University, Carolyn Woo of Notre Dame University, and William Dunkelberg of Temple University, more than 80 percent of entrepreneurs estimated their... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
I approached him, and he picked up the telephone and called a former student at General Foods who agreed to hire me for the summer. That resulted in my eventually working there full-time, and it launched my marketing career. The other... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
March–April 2017 Harvard Business Review Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For By: Butler, Timothy Abstract—Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes and sizes want to recruit entrepreneurial managers. But... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
publicized predictions of 50-100 municipal defaults have caused anxiety among municipal bond investors. While there is some chance that negative investor sentiment will lead to further spread widening, the probability of the kind of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
idiosyncratic they are one by one by one. They serve, I have to say, different purposes. It's not by accident that the British universities tend to fair rather well in the Times of London polls, the American universities overwhelmingly... View Details