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  • 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6

methodologies for detecting "tunneling," or efforts by firms' controlling owner managers to take money for themselves at the expense of minority shareholders. We find that, in contrast to prior views, Indian business groups are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

article provides a descriptive analysis of how methodological factors contribute to the accuracy of customer churn predictive models. The study is based on a tournament in which both academics and practitioners downloaded data from a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This

effectiveness of a common educational methodology aimed at these employees. Commonly called “social norms marketing,” the method essentially shows people what their peers are doing to induce them into good behaviors. Beshears pointed out... View Details
Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Financial Services
  • 11 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

industries over others, including wishing to avoid sectors where there was extensive government interference. Oral history can shed light on hypersensitive topics, such as corruption, which are rarely formally documented. While the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008

and pushed by policy makers both at the national and EU levels. Practical implications—Policymakers must be well informed about geographical concentration patterns of industry. The research offers a consistent methodology of mapping... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

research that points to remedies for these biases, illustrating that organizational practices can be sites for intervention and change. The chapter concludes with methodological and substantive recommendations for future research on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

did not work in this field. The solution involved the novel application of an existing methodology to the problem at hand. Besides solving the problem, the solution information opened up a new knowledge domain for future investigations... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

System Architecture By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterizing the architecture of complex technical systems and demonstrate its application... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007

isolate the effects of channel expansion. We argue for advantages to using zip code level data for methodological and consumer data privacy reasons. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-043.pdf Multinational Firms, FDI... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

typical startup roles to help you determine which one might be the best fit for you, 2) profiles of startup executives across many different functions who share their stories and describe their responsibilities, and 3) a methodology to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

StarNight Hotel Construction Bid: Real Time Competition on Schedule, Scope, and Cost Harvard Business School Case 209-067 The case is intended for use with the HBS Educational Technology Group "Construction Bidding Simulation." Material that can be taught... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2024
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Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

research paper, a forecaster would have done worse using this methodology than just guessing that every election would turn out to be a coin toss. To be sure, over this period, some demographic groups gained electoral influence, while... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro
  • 02 Jan 2012
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Most Popular Articles of 2011

product should have been, says HBS entrepreneurial management professor Thomas R. Eisenmann. In his new MBA course, Launching Technology Ventures, Eisenmann introduces students to the idea of the lean startup—a methodology that has proven... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

attention trying to figure out ways to fight this battle. Q: Could you summarize your results? A: First of all, let us make a caveat regarding our approach. Our methodology is formal economic modelling. What this means is that we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 20 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

usual methodology of studying organizations in a particular industry or geography, Zhang went wide and deep. He developed a longitudinal sample of 1,069 leading public firms in 35 countries and 24 industries. His chief finding: The social... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?

comparative consumer product reviews since 1936. The publication ranks competitive brands according to quality, based on in-house testing and customer surveys, and publishes the products' retail prices. "Decades of data, just staring at you," Sheen says.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

to increase the transparency of options repurchases. The case describes the methodology used to value the warrants. Students have the opportunity to value warrants issued by 10 of the largest banks and to evaluate whether the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207019 CMM versus Agile: Methodology Wars in Software Development Harvard Business School Case 607-084 A CIO decides whether to adopt the "Capability Maturity Model"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

because Patagonia was a private company. The Tompkins dual strategy of exit from business and application of entrepreneurial skills to conservation resulted in large environmental gains, including sequestering and storing an estimated 80 million tons of carbon. We lack... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

requirements. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w19018 Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture By:Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an operational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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