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  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

performance chemicals. Simultaneously, Dow had signed a joint venture agreement with Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) of Kuwait, a deal that would generate $7 billion in cash that could be used to finance the all-cash offer to buy... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

learning that will be useful to future missions. This might include decisions on how much telemetry data to provide in flight, a useful source of fault-finding data should things go wrong, as well as the choice of when to fly a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

investigate nine open source programming contests in which 875 software programmers submit over 4.7 million lines of code. We conduct our analysis at the individual level and identify how programmers gain the ability to adopt and invent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

efficiency also had more conventional paths to market based on licensing deals to large seed companies. Alternatively, Arcadia could acquire a seed company and develop and market its seed directly. A different near-term growth area... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 May 2022
  • News

Bidding Up

soda. I worked, sacked groceries. I had a job continuously. I was always employed. JH: What did you do with your money that you’d earned? BW: Oh, so I was rather famous for this because I bought my own .22 rifle and then I bought a 16-gauge shotgun. I bought my own... View Details
  • 09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016

observers perceive employees who express distress as less competent than employees who do not. Across five experiments, we explore how reframing a socially inappropriate emotional expression (distress) by publicly attributing it to an appropriate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2020
  • News

Phoenix Rising

eight floors up, both for the Acropolis views and for a less buttoned-up vibe. As the November afternoon wears on and daylight fades, the buzz in the lounge heats up. Tea service yields to bar service, and patrons jockey to be heard above the piano. The rising roar—of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

primary sources of institutional change become especially apparent when one considers large-scale institutions such as healthcare, academic disciplines, or social services, which are nested within or cut across a variety of institutional... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

strategy as demonstrated in Funds I ($70 million) and II ($250 million) emphasized careful targeting of sectors and in-depth work to develop the portfolio companies post-acquisition. With the industry's greater velocity and deal size, can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

including aging populations and medical technology. But an underlying and misunderstood source of health care’s escalating costs has been the inability of health care provider organizations (such as large academic medical centers) to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

advertising strategy, and leather sourcing issues. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/514078-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-070 The Grommet The Grommet, an online product launch platform, was at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

pharmaceuticals—hear the raw but necessary truth about the sources of misalignment between their strategies and their organizations. In addition to step-by-step instructions, Beer offers illustrative case studies of companies that have... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

The Business of Love

thinking,” Kang said to laughter. “It’s another online dating site.” But VC firms have shown a great deal of interest—almost $150 million worth since early 2010—in the revitalized online dating sector, which market research company... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 12 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

“Good entrepreneurs are learning machines, so they’re always asking for advice and guidance from multiple sources of expertise, including their investors. In fact, the best founders are outstanding at squeezing every bit of insight,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1

C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Publication:National Tax Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Deferral of U.S. taxes on foreign source income is commonly characterized as a subsidy to foreign investment, as reflected in its inclusion... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a globalized information and entertainment industry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

of the design of crowdfunding platforms can therefore be understood as attempts to deal with attendant "free-rider" problems in motivating contributions. Reviewing institutional features of today's crowdfunding, we clarify that... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

ventures together, each of which had had increasingly attractive outcomes, but none of which had reached their full potential. The number on the table from Google was a big one. Should the deal be completed, it would be the biggest win... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

Tufano Abstract Financial innovation has been both praised as the engine of growth of society and castigated for being the source of the weakness of the economy. In this paper, we review the literature on financial innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

with Lula and had to decide what to do to attenuate these political pressures. What could Agnelli do to deal with political pressures at home? Was the purchase of large vessels to ship iron ore to Asia a good decision at a time when the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace