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- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407049 Analyzing Relative Costs Harvard Business School Note 708-462 Introduces students to the technique of relative cost analysis, a core technique of strategists. Among the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
value, such as total quality management and benchmarking, and are trained how to improve quality while reducing costs. Students learn which techniques have worked well and which have failed, and thereby View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 06 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?
"talking past each other" manifests itself in many ways. Q: Can outsiders bring enough pressure to create political and social change in China? A: Outside pressure can be a useful catalyst, but probably more so when used to feed View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
also show that the internal control provisions of section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley make royalty arrangements based on self-reporting more attractive. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-100.pdf Toward a Theory of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
to find ways to get our students to engage with this idea," he said. "Our students will be tomorrow's participants in thin political markets." (To learn more about thin political markets, see the story A... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
a payoff. That's much more consistent with what we know to be the case historically. HS: We now have a stronger international focus. A lot of students are now thinking about opportunities in the United... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
By: Kerr, William R., and Ufuk Akcigit Abstract—We build a tractable growth model where multi-product incumbents invest in internal innovations to improve their existing products, while new entrants and incumbents invest in external... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
Preparing for the 2010 report, the Southwest reporting team contemplates how to improve the One Report. The case also allows for debate on the future of integrated reporting, including its impact on internal management processes,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
Working PapersExplaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints Authors:Silvia Ardagna and Annamaria Lusardi Abstract We use a micro dataset that collects... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008), suggesting any... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
and by the effects of their private governance mechanisms. These organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
Center researcher Namrata Arora uncover a complicated mix of piracy and plagiarism that harm not only Hollywood's efforts at success in the Indian market, but local Bollywood companies as well. Iyer says the case can help students and... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
including internal and external crowdsourcing contests. Emphasis is placed on exploring actual open innovation initiatives within Siemens and their outcomes. These include creating internal social- and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
prices, and post-acute care costs were measured using either internal costs or external claims as reported by each hospital. Despite having similar patient demographics as well as re-admission and complication rates, the average cost of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
that normative or preconceived beliefs about the functioning of the social world may guide social behavior in children. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54387 Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
Successful businessmen told a roomful of students that ultimately, the world outside the classroom will be their best teacher in entrepreneurship. "If you are taking an entrepreneurship class, you want to be a venture... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
frog design, LUMA Institute), we have developed a semester long, cross-disciplinary, “doing” course that presents students with a conceptual framework for a human-centered innovation process and provides them with tools for engaging in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
investment from an international private equity company, and it has decided to focus on expanding tertiary care capabilities in its hospitals. A consulting team has identified cardiology, oncology, and advanced surgery (orthopedic and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume or number of projects completed by a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We test our theory in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne