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  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are no longer adequate to serve as the primary unit of analysis. Over the years, systems of distributed innovation-so-called business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

to use its limited resources focusing on Home Depot or find a new target to forward their cause. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407097 Apollo Hospitals—First-World Health Care at Emerging-Market View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

garment factory owners engaged in cutthroat price competition to secure orders from Western manufacturer and retailer brands. These brands conveniently sourced their requirements at arm’s length through third-party intermediaries to avoid... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 13 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 13

relative to the industry, where 2% management fees plus 20% of performance, often with no hurdle, was standard. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212038-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

historical long run). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52277 February 2017 Journal of Arthroplasty Drivers of the Variation in Prosthetic Implant Purchase Prices for Total Knee and Total Hip Arthroplasties... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

offers a reduced price to riders willing to carpool, walk a short distance to/from their pick-up and drop-off points, and wait a few minutes before being matched to a driver. Two weeks after the launch of Express POOL in six U.S. cities,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

students and the classroom teaching plan for instructors. Information on how to access and use these multimedia components is included in the Teaching Note. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 416-026... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

Using transcripts from the English-language conference calls of non-U.S. firms, we find that linguistic complexity is positively associated with the language barriers in the firms' home country. We then show that conference calls that are more linguistically complex... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

influence, intermittent social influence, or no social influence. Groups in the intermittent social-influence treatment found the optimum solution frequently (like groups without influence) but had a high mean performance (like groups... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Sep 2011
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The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent—but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind? The traditional culture of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

work. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217040-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-039 Goldman Sachs' Digital Journey No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where the incumbent may imitate the entrant's business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2001
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Facing the New World Order

in the way of productivity and competition. We see in many countries the price of failure to really deal with microeconomic reforms. Countries like Argentina and Korea and others, which are really, really struggling, even though they were... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 21 Nov 2005
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Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

this without a patent or a copyright. In theory, anyone could try to horn in on his territory. Surely some are trying; there are no formal barriers to entry. Rovell's competitive advantage is his reputation. Foster A Reputation For... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27

  Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media By: Piskorski, Mikołaj Jan Abstract—Almost no one had heard of social media a decade ago, but today websites such as Facebook,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

data, is computationally light and allows for flexible substitution patterns. We apply the model to a data set containing browsing and purchase information from a retailer stocking over 500 products, recover the elasticity matrix, and solve for optimal View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

has a positive and significant effect on rainfall insurance adoption, increasing take-up from 8% to 16%. Only one marketing intervention, the money-back guarantee, has a consistent and large effect on farmers' purchase decisions. This guarantee, comparable to a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Nov 2006
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Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

on. It's noteworthy that he was educated at public universities. There was no tuition at CCNY, City College of New York. Q: And he was penniless when he came. A: He came here with nothing but the shirt on his back. He literally crawled... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

associated with excellence in certain product categories. Venezuelan chocolate maker Chocolates El Rey does little international business because consumers associate premium chocolate more with Belgium or Switzerland than with Venezuela. Companies in this position have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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