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  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of intermediate progress and solutions or of completed innovations. We present experimental evidence that links intermediate versus final disclosure not just with quantitative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007

agribusiness companies. Headquartered in White Plains, NY, the company has traditionally possessed a strong presence in Brazil. Describes Bunge's tradeoff between efficiency of global operations and local responsiveness in an uncertain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

"solutions" business model to replace its traditional "product" or "transactional" approach. Many of the required changes appeared to violate some of the tradeoffs that had made the previous approach... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

proposed organizational designs and presents the arguments within Merrimack's leadership team for and against each. It highlights the tradeoffs associated with each design as they relate to accountability, efficiency, innovation, product... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0461 August 2013 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing By: McElheran, Kristina Steffenson Abstract—Recent contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5

control and order processing, particularly the tradeoffs between centralized and decentralized inventories. Students must complete a quantitative analysis of the costs and benefits of several alternatives. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

government taxes incomes, it discourages people from working as hard as they otherwise would have worked. This is what generates the classic tradeoff in tax policy: The more equally you try to slice the economic pie, the smaller it gets.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

understand the tradeoff decisions you are making and can be very informative when it comes to strategic thinking about the company’s product roadmap and long term direction. Speaking of roadmaps, if you’ve got a former head of product or... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

innovations (for whom the price of failure tolerance is too high) can only be started by investors who are not failure tolerant. Since policies to stimulate innovation must often be set before specific investments in innovative projects are made, this creates a View Details
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

disclosure levels for consumer information and consumers observe both before deciding which firm to patronize and how much information to provide it with. The provision and disclosure of information presents tradeoffs for all market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

established the issues and highlighted some of the tradeoffs to set the tone for the rest of the course. The course benefitted greatly from a deep bench of excellent class guests and speakers, representing a range of approaches to climate... View Details
  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

volatility, whereas shadow banks tend to hold relatively liquid assets. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/banks_20150305_FINAL.pdf March 2015 Production and Operations Management Managing the Performance Tradeoffs from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/ebay-partner-network-d/an/914016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-436 Multi-Sided Platforms: Foundations and Strategy This note offers an analysis of four fundamental strategic decisions and associated View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

  Working PapersStrategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match Authors:Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

to win. Paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2211700   Working PapersDelegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing Authors:McElheran, Kristina Abstract Recent contributions to a growing theory literature have focused on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

In the early 1990s, both Teradyne and Hewlett-Packard identified new technologies that had enormous potential to cause new-market disruptions. As with most disruptive innovations, these technologies offered to provide smaller and less expensive solutions for customers... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology
  • 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

difficulties in designing incentive systems, including the tradeoff between objective and subjective performance metrics, how to design incentive systems in team environments, and the inherent problems with designing incentive systems in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

emerging market firms raise external capital, they face a tradeoff where greater transparency may lead to a lower cost of capital but at the cost of revealing proprietary information in their relational business practices. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

benchmark setting, the marketplace mode is preferred if and only if the variance of local information exceeds the squared value of spillovers from marketing activities across products. We explore several generalizations, showing how the benchmark View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne