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- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
the other, creating a dynamic in which their interactions with members who focus on the other identity create challenges and dominate their program experience, to the detriment of a focus on the organization and its goals. This suggests... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
a decline in their number of receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns. Given that a punter’s task (kicking the ball) is almost entirely reliant on his own strength and skill, and a wide receiver’s tasks are “governed by complex View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
community service projects such as serving as classroom aides in inner-city schools or assisting staff at neighborhood Boys and Girls Clubs. Expansion of the relationship over the ensuing decade found Timberland supplying City Year's... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Performance Goals and Incentives This module explains how managers use performance goals and incentives to ensure that employee actions align with the strategy of the organization. We demonstrate how to use goals to communicate business... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Gap? Government Subsidized Lending and Access to Capital By: Lerner, Josh, and Kristle Romero-Cortes Abstract—The consequences of providing public funds to financial institutions remain controversial. We examine the Community Development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
lines in order to illuminate the ways that U.S. states take advantage of federal ambiguity and are able to shape corporate practices to their benefit. We specifically examine how patterns of bank acquisitions are shaped by the crucial relationship between the federal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
little understanding of actual interaction patterns in modern, complex, multiunit firms. To open the proverbial "black box" and begin to reveal the internal wiring of the firm, this paper presents a detailed, descriptive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
higher subsequent patenting at the individual level. I also find mobility immediately prior to meetings at which R&D funds are most likely to be disbursed to be related to higher subsequent patenting. This study sheds new light on how intra-firm mobility and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
occurs slowly. Broadly, our studies provide evidence as to when and why people overlook cheating by others and examine the conditions under which the slippery slope effect occurs. Customer-Based Valuation Author:Sunil Gupta Publication:Journal of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
potentially communicated may exceed salespeople's ability to communicate or customers' ability to process: there is limited "bandwidth" between the firm and customers. One important decision, then,... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
of FairMarket, which provides online auction services for a variety of merchant and community sites. Meakem is the founder and CEO of FreeMarkets, which creates business-to-business online auctions for industrial parts and suppliers.... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
the interaction of the number and spacing of a family’s children with the pricing policies of the local school. This within-neighborhood variation in tuition prices allows us to control for unobserved determinants of demand with a fine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
spoken natively; the supervisors speak the other 2. To bridge the gap, the mining industry long ago adopted the use of Fanagalo, a pidgin language developed in the nineteenth century so colonists could communicate with their servants.... View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
Millennials are disruptive bunch. The first generation to grow up with the internet, consumers born after 1980 are used to relying on technology and engineering to do almost everything—including shopping (Amazon), listening to music (Spotify), View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=206078 Southern States Communications 806-170 Managers receiving letters claiming that their products or services violate the intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
extra-industry professional networks will, through normative conformity, be more likely to adopt turnkey practices; second, that the normative pressure of professional networks will interact with the mimeticism of industry peers such that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
Sokoloff's influential study of trade in invention in the United States, our quantitative and qualitative evidence highlights how inventors and intermediaries in Japan interacted to create a market for new ideas. Paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes from 1975 to 1994. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Abstract We study competitive interaction between two alternative models of digital content distribution over the Internet: peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing and centralized client-server distribution. We present microfoundations for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
distribution, pooled intra-organizational coordination, and agency relationships—result in a trade-off between centralized and dispersed growth strategies. Which strategy prevails depends on how policy—enabling branching interacts with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne