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Extending the Role of Headquarters Beyond the Firm Boundary: Entrepreneurial Alliance Innovation

By: Jaeho Kim and Andy Wu
Prior research on corporate headquarters (CHQ) characteristics identifies the impact of CHQ location and composition on the innovation outcomes of internal subsidiaries. However, given that external strategic alliances with high-tech entrepreneurial firms represent a... View Details
Keywords: Alliance; Innovation; Corporate Headquarters; Geographic Proximity; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Alliances; Joint Ventures; Innovation and Invention; Business Headquarters; Geographic Location
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  • June–July 2013
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Firm Rivalry, Knowledge Accumulation, and MNE Location Choices

By: Juan Alcacer, Cristian Deszo and Minyuan Zhao
The international business (IB) literature has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics on location choices. However, industries with a significant presence of multinational enterprises (MNEs) are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Knowledge Acquisition; Game Theory; Global Strategy
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises

By: Robert Gibbons and Rebecca Henderson
Social networks and social groups have both been seen as important to discouraging malfeasance and supporting the global pro-social norms that underlie social order, but have typically been treated either as pure substitutes or as having completely independent effects.... View Details
Keywords: Social Norms; Social Networks; Triadic Closure; Social Groups; Group Identity; Groups and Teams; Identity; Performance Consistency; Social and Collaborative Networks; Societal Protocols; Social Media
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    Racial Disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program

    Using a large sample of Florida restaurants, we document significant racial disparities in borrowing through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and investigate the causes of these disparities. Black-owned restaurants are 25% less likely to receive PPP loans.... View Details
    • 23 Jul 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Sam Walton: Great From the Start

    learn from everybody," he said, and one of the key characteristics of his career was that he kept learning until the day he died. He learned from Butler Brothers, from retail publications, and from his competitor, John Dunham, with... View Details
    Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail
    • 01 Nov 2021
    • What Do You Think?

    How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?

    their core values if they want these good leadership characteristics to be part of their culture.” MB added, “Empathy requires a complete culture shift, which doesn’t happen overnight, and it requires commitment from the top If the... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 29 Jul 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

    month based on union-negotiated quotas. This implementation process enabled Choudhury and his co-authors to avoid what is known as the selection problem in social science research. “The concern is that there is some underlying View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 03 Nov 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses

    Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman & Michael Schwarz; Publishing
    • Research Summary

    People Are Experience Goods: Improving Online Dating with Virtual Dates

    Because internet search mechanisms are designed for finding searchable items, we tend to conceptualize the things we seek online in terms of their objective characteristics. For some pursuits, however, this illuminates a mismatch between processes and goals. In online... View Details
    • February 2013 (Revised February 2013)
    • Case

    Wayne Ferrari: iAutomation at a Crossroads

    By: Jim Sharpe and Michael Norris
    Wayne Ferrari has bridged the gap between being an independent entrepreneur and a "professional manager." After selling his business to a Private Equity (PE) firm, Ferrari takes on the role of CEO and with their support implements a roll-up strategy to attain growth... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Leveraged Buyouts; Roll-up; Career Planning; Acquisitions; Pricing; Pricing Policies; Pricing Strategy; Pricing Structure; Acquisition; Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Distribution; Integration; System; Electronics Industry; Distribution Industry; United States
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    • 19 Aug 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution

    Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew Weinzierl
    • 07 Aug 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    When Supply-Chain Disruptions Matter

    Keywords: by William Schmidt & Ananth Raman
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Aiyesha Dey
    Professor Dey’s research explores governance and agency conflicts, board structure, governance regulation and corporate behavior, ownership structure, and the relation between executives’ characteristics and corporate behavior. In analyzing corporate governance... View Details

      Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy and Execution

      Most books thus far on emerging markets are either investing-oriented, or country - or market-specific, or descriptive. No book has definitively targeted the corporate strategists who need a practical framework and assessment tools for analyzing emerging markets,... View Details

      • 12 Mar 2024
      • HBS Case

      How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

      Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology
      • Web

      South Asia - Global

      India for an 'Immersion for One' organized by the HBS India Research Center. Events in Pune, Delhi, and Kolkata highlighted her research on “The CEO Factor” examining how CEO characteristics influence corporate behavior and governance.... View Details
      • 29 May 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: May 29

      consistent (by giving a clear direction). The paper analyzes what characteristics make a decision "strategic" and when and how having a strategy creates value, including when a strategy "bet" can create value. It shows... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 08 Dec 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Are There Too Many Safe Securities? Securitization and the Incentives for Information Production

      Keywords: by Samuel G. Hanson & Adi Sunderam; Financial Services
      • 23 Oct 2024
      • HBS Seminar

      Rosa Ferrer, University of Pompeu Fabra and BSE

      • 27 Jun 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

      certain, that Asian firms will follow this evolutionary path. The political connections so important for top business leaders in Asia, whether in democracies or one-party states, are not unknown but are much less important in America. It is a View Details
      Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills