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  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

better ex-ante characteristics, bank-affiliated investments have slightly worse outcomes than non-affiliated investments. Also consistent with theory, the cyclicality of banks' engagement in private equity and favorable financing terms are negatively correlated with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

pioneered new industries, from jute manufacture in India and cotton textile manufacture in China, to the oil industry in California."The improvements in transport and communications from the 1870s resulted in opportunities and... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

given the increased focus on containing health care costs, perhaps those machines could supplement more advanced equipment used for initial screenings or at community hospitals. There is great possibility for similar innovations wherever... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

the period from 1996 to 2005 to test the hypothesized relationships. How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power and Timing in Redundant Communication Authors:P.M. Leonardi, T.B. Neeley, and E.M. Gerber... View Details
  • 07 May 2014
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

diagnoses. Others advocated tax and non-tax solutions. The case against hasty change was made by Dave: "Market based capitalism is the greatest driving force of prosperity in the world today, but if we forget this and marginalize it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

require a grand organizational makeover or buy-in from the CEO. All it takes is collaboration between you and your team-working together and making small, doable changes. What started as an experiment with a six-person team at The Boston... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

in which the countries are different. These dimensions pervade all aspects of societal existence, whether that means raising capital to start a new business, the nature of markets, copyrights, the media, movies, and religion, as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector

a potential source of innovation rather than fearing what could happen if they freely share ideas, suggests the work, which Greenstein wrote with Do Yoon Kim, an assistant professor at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management, and... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology
  • 14 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 14, 2016

patent applications in 1976 to 16% in 2008. This is partly driven by the increase in the prevalence of information and communication technology; however, even for patents unrelated to information and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

opposition. The trail of such failed deals is long; for examples, see here, here, and here. For instance, consider the award of the 2024 Olympics to Boston over Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington DC. Boston’s successful bid was... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction
  • November 2023 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

BiomX: Bringing Phage Back to the Stage

By: Paul A. Gompers, Elie Ofek, Orna Dan and Emilie Billaud
In the spring of 2023, and following the favorable results of a trial involving its phage cocktail for treating lung infections among cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, the leadership of BiomX had several critical issues to wrestle with. First, given its precarious... View Details
Keywords: Working Capital; Financing and Loans; Health Testing and Trials; Product Development; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • August 2011 (Revised October 2011)
  • Case

PureTech Ventures in 2011

By: Andrei Hagiu, Cesar Castro and Sarah Murphy
In early May 2011, Daphne Zohar, founder and managing partner of PureTech Ventures, a life science venture creation company in Boston, MA, was reviewing a term sheet she had just received from a venture capital (VC) firm for one of PureTech's portfolio companies. The... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Negotiation; Partners and Partnerships; Science-Based Business; Opportunities; Boston
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  • 09 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

from some 250 million online job listings, sorting them into categories including country, city, job type, and industry. San Francisco and Boston lead remote offerings The pattern in all categories? Variety. “Remote-work posting shares... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 23 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 23

answer might have appeared just too obvious: payouts are funded with free cash flow-at least over long enough time periods. In stark contrast to this commonly held view, we find that firms rely on the capital markets to finance a third of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

organizations use incident-reporting systems to encourage employees to communicate about the operational problems they witness. Using data on nearly 7,500 reported incidents, we find that information campaigns encouraging process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

time, employees must be trained to regularly communicate their progress to keep managers in the loop. 3. Support work-life wellbeing One of the unexpected outcomes of the pandemic has been a newfound appreciation for people’s humanity,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 18 Nov 2022
  • HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

many of its funds as mid-size. Shifting to a majority mid-sized fund designation might confuse the investment community that now associated Brown Capital with its winning small-company strategy. What’s more,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 17 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

T. (Tim) Hall and Kathy Kram of Boston University’s Questrom School, and HBS doctoral candidate Jeff Steiner. The early findings revealed that many retirees follow a typical pattern of psychological adjustment. They eagerly count down to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 24 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 24

  Publications February 2015 University of Chicago Press Political Standards By: Ramanna, Karthik Abstract—There are certain institutions underlying our modern market-capitalist system that are largely outside the interest and understanding of the general public-e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 16

from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. The establishment of the People's Republic in 1949, with a decided turn against foreign enterprises operating in China from the 1950s, and radical communism from the late 1960s through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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