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- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
invented the concept of FairMarket Network, which is basically a distributed selling environment, where we'll run marketplaces and auctions for many companies underneath their own brand. That way they'll drive the traffic; they'll be... View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
innovative new product for the treatment of acne that they hope to sell to consumers via direct-response television. The unconventional nature of the product and its distribution has led the company to seek angel financing. The Silicon... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
intermediary organizations. To test our theory, we examine every relationship between entrepreneurial firms and their venture capital investors in the minimally invasive surgical segment of the medical device industry over a 22-year... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
implications of our findings for the literature on absorptive capacity and open and distributed innovation. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1802696 Do Market Leaders Lead in Business Process... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
competitive standing of their domestic pharmaceutical industries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-118.pdf Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan Authors:Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Japan's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
both brick-and-mortar and online retailers. We focus on product categories where consumers may purchase multiple products during a season and investigate a new reason why frequent assortment rotations can be valuable to a retailer. Namely, by View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings, insurance portfolios are systematically biased toward higher yield, higher CDS bonds. This behavior appears to be related to the business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
neighborhood Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass (DUMBO) has seen a revitalization since the late 1970s. The neighborhood's business improvement district (BID) is charged with supplementing New York City's efforts in several areas, including safety, sanitation,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
each originator minimizes his reliance on costly informed capital in good times by issuing safe securities. Our model suggests regulations that limit the issuance of safe securities in good times. Read:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
undertaking traditional value creation activities—from sourcing to engaging the poor in production to distribution and sales—in low-income markets. To the degree that these ventures empower the poor—either by improving their quality of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
income rather than to maximize the capital value of the savings. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/07/the-crisis-in-retirement-planning/ar/1 July-August 2014 Harvard Business Review Sustainability in the Boardroom: Lessons from Nike's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
when the sovereign is temporarily excluded from capital markets. Differently from previous analyses, we assume that in addition to accumulating international reserves, countries can borrow internationally using their own currency. As... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
mercantilist model of government-managed trade. Japan's version of mercantilism primarily used its own banking system, as well as export revenues themselves, to generate the needed capital (in contrast to making heavy use of foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
included some mention of peddlers and drummers in his 1977 book, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. He discussed them, though only briefly, within the larger context of the rise of mass distribution and mass... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
iPhoto This weekend the NFL is concluding its annual draft. Up to 255 college football players will be distributed over three days across the 32 NFL teams. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made the... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
itself, can obscure meaningful variation in individual use patterns, we investigate how the concentration of use within a team (the extent to which use is limited to a few members versus more evenly distributed within the team) affects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
of lawyers in a large North American law firm provide support for our predictions. We call for a new direction in network research that investigates how network-related behaviors associated with building social capital influence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
perspective of originators. All originators benefit from the presence of additional informed investors in bad times, but each originator minimizes his reliance on costly informed capital in good times by issuing safe securities. Our model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
continued and expanded, with further empirical exploration of a distributed model of innovation that includes communities and platforms in a variety of contexts and with the development of theory to explain the economic underpinnings of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
tax savings. We find that 2,281 top executives strategically realized their built-in capital gains prior to the tax hikes to save nearly $741 million in personal taxes in 2012. These executives also (1) make payout policy choices that... View Details