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  • 24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24

firm-level data between 1998 and 2003. First, we present the first exhaustive description of the U.K. retail sector using micro data sources. Second, in the spirit of Foster, Haltiwanger, and Krizan (2002), we look at the contributions of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4

  Publications November 2014 Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias Los Buenos Tiempos Son Éstos: Los efectos de la incursión de la banca extranjera en México después de un siglo de crisis bancarias [These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14

research on firm entry into new domains by examining heterogeneity in firms' framing and feature-level entry choices. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

circumstances," said Howson. "In China, regulators and shareholders are one and the same, but they're slowly separating. There's still some confusion of roles as to how privatized firms are supposed to act." "It's... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016

entry rates and increases in plant productivity are not present in districts 10–50 km away. The entry effects are stronger in rural areas of districts, but the differences between urban and rural areas are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

certain general properties of the transition path from dirty to clean technology. We then estimate the model using a combination of regression analysis on the relationship between R&D and patents, and simulated method of moments using microdata on employment,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote

the agency implied that it would respect the public’s wishes, say Michael Norton and Leslie John, both professors at Harvard Business School. “When firms conduct online polls, people frequently submit ridiculous entries; and with social... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation outcomes within the strategy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

inspired-makes all the more impressive what the design firm IDEO has already achieved. Its help-seeking and help-giving culture is behind the firm's success. But how has IDEO managed to make helping the norm? To answer this question, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3

study extends previous research on firm entry into new domains by examining heterogeneity in firms' feature-level entry choices. In addition, we contribute to work on dominant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field

overlap, into four areas: competitive strategy, corporate strategy, global competition, and technology strategy. The largest of the subgroups, competitive strategy - essentially the core of the unit - looks at the techniques a firm uses... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 17 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

firm that provides capital advisory services to mid-sized, privately-held companies. Constantini cited his development of a company, Boston Financial, as one of his most rewarding projects. "I was able to do some creative, innovative... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate
  • 01 Jan 2008
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Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

Mahindra. “From the corporate center, we provide services—financial skills and help with branding, for instance—and monitor the financial targets very closely, but we are essentially allowing professional executives to do their job.” To transform an old-line Indian... View Details
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

traditional question of how the inflow of foreign workers affects native employment and earnings to explore effects on innovation and productivity, wage inequality across skill groups, the behavior of multinational firms, firm-level dynamics of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

databases are used worldwide to study entry and firm dynamics, but payroll information does not contain ownership structures. As such, they followed a practice used in other settings to focus on the three... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 24 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

also be an opportunity for established firms to enter the new industry. In the paper we emphasize that capital generally needs to stay in place for some period of time: You don't want to see your investment wiped out by the next new thing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 19 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 19

entry of new female candidates, no change in female or male voter turnout, and no spillover effects to neighboring areas. Further analysis points to a reduction in party bias against women candidates as the main mechanism driving the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And the top consulting (or law) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

consideration for all managers. Value Creation—and Collusion Suppose that pharmaceutical firm A manufactures a new, beneficial drug and begins selling 100 million pills per year at $3.05 per pill. Each pill costs 5 cents to manufacture,... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

"dynamic trajectories" perspective. We collect and analyze a unique dataset of all entry and exit events for Fortune 50 and FTSE 50 firms (as of 1991) in India in the period from 1858 to 2013 and,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne