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  • Teaching Interest

Finance II (MBA Required Curriculum)

By: Benjamin C. Esty

This course builds on the foundation developed in Finance I, focusing on three sets of managerial decisions:

  • How to evaluate complex investments.
  • How to set and execute financial policies within a firm.
  • How to integrate... View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • November 2015
  • Article

Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Joachim Henkel
Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Value Appropriation; Relational Contracts; Clans; Intellectual Property
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Joachim Henkel
Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Value Appropriation; Relational Contracts; Clans; Rights; Complexity; Intellectual Property
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    Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

    Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact... View Details
    • Article

    Beyond the Reach of the Invisible Hand: Impediments to Economic Activity, Market Failures, and Profitability

    By: Dennis Yao
    In this paper it is argued that failures of the competitive market are necessary conditions for supranormal profitability. Three fundamental causes of these market failures-production economies and sunk costs, transactions costs, and imperfect information-are developed... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Markets; Failure; Profit; Cost; Information; Market Transactions; Competition; Strategy; Production
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    • Research Summary

    Selective Attention and Learning

    By: Joshua R. Schwartzstein

    What do we notice, and how does this affect what we learn? Standard economic models of learning ignore memory by assuming that we remember everything. But there is growing recognition that memory is imperfect. Further, memory imperfections do not stem from limited... View Details

    • 13 Aug 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry

    Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Tarun Khanna; Video Game; Web Services
    • 09 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

    Ensure you are considering all available, relevant information but are not overwhelmed by information overload. Being clear about your organization’s strategy will provide focus to information-gathering and... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
    • Article

    Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry

    By: Ramana Nanda and Tarun Khanna
    This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for entrepreneurs in developing countries by examining ties between the Indian expatriate community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that local entrepreneurs who have... View Details
    Keywords: Diasporas; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry; India
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    • 2021
    • Article

    To Thine Own Self Be True? Incentive Problems in Personalized Law

    By: Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
    Recent years have seen an explosion of scholarship on “personalized law.” Commentators foresee a world in which regulators armed with big data and machine learning techniques determine the optimal legal rule for every regulated party, then instantaneously disseminate... View Details
    Keywords: Personalized Law; Regulation; Regulatory Avoidance; Regulatory Arbitrage; Law And Economics; Law And Technology; Law And Artificial Intelligence; Futurism; Moral Hazard; Elicitation; Signaling; Privacy; Law; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology; AI and Machine Learning
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    • 03 Oct 2023
    • Research Event

    Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

    Status-- Winfrey: No, but I don't think it's status. I think, and one of the reasons I said what I said about it informing me, and I said to you back backstage that it actually made me a better person. Reading those columns made me a... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Staff
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    The Imposter Among Us

    Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • 24 Jul 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

    our actions and opportunities, at least in the short run. It is our job as directors, managers, and employees to resist the temptation to conform to the pressures of equity and debt markets when those markets do not have the private competitive View Details
    Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
    • 28 Nov 2023
    • Book

    Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

    democracies, which are imperfect and messy, but endeavor to fundamentally protect the rights and safety of people.” Sean Silverthorne: In general, what do business leaders need to know about operating in authoritarian regimes? Meg... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Dec 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers

    scenario in an experiment, most people did indeed choose the longer stick, whereas only 15 percent initially chose the shorter one. However, when the short version was labeled as “newer,” twice as many, about 31 percent, chose it—even though all of the other product... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products; Retail
    • Web

    HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

    Fuller , and HBS alumni practitioners like Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA 1998) and Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) Research-based and practical frameworks for scaling your venture successfully Opportunities to make connections with VCs and both founders and builders of high-growth... View Details
    • 07 Aug 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: August 7, 2007

    community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that entrepreneurs located outside software hubs—in cities where monitoring and information flow on prospective clients is harder—rely significantly more on diaspora... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 06 Oct 2020
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

    Since March, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge has posted more than 80 stories and research papers on the topic of COVID-19, most targeted at managers and the new challenges they face. That's a lot of information to digest. To... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Jun 2009
    • What Do You Think?

    What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

    an imperfect proxy for growth . Rather than focus on GDP per se, we should look at standard of living, productivity, innovation." Noting that "GDP is a point-in-time measure," Gerald Nanninga asked. "How much of the... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
    • 15 Jul 2019
    • Book

    Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

    what’s the best way for managers to communicate financial information to shareholders? “People who want to have advanced roles in enterprise confront financial questions more and more, and they have to be more fluent in the financial... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman