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  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

enterprise, the future is not something that just happens. It is something they create. —Richard S. Tedlow A born empire builder, Carnegie could see in the early 1870s that steel was destined to transform the material basis of... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
  • 25 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 25, 2016

the choice between specific and generic disclosures of IP—and the optimal response by SSOs, including the royalty rate setting. We show that firms with a stronger downstream presence are more likely to opt for a generic disclosure, as are those with lower quality... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information technology investments, I find that a high net value of adaptation is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

U.K., have adopted a hybrid approach known as the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), also known as "public-private partnerships" (PPP). Under this approach, private firms build and operate the infrastructure while the host... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Empire By Caroline M. Elkins, Professor of Business Administration Alfred A. Knopf Sprawling across a quarter of the world’s landmass and claiming nearly 700 million people, Britain’s twentieth-century View Details
  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

of social structure and the relations of power that underlie them. The article proposes a more empirical approach to framing accountability—"thick description"—that might enable scholars to better understand how social regimes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

attracted criticism for its purely empirical approach, its failure to make consistently accurate predictions, and its pursuit of commercial objectives in a university setting. Harvard's efforts to build a forecasting service are an early... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

demonstrate, a coordination perspective helps resolve some empirical puzzles, but it also represents a challenge to received wisdom grounded in the salience of cooperation. To stimulate future research, we discuss alternative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

their favorite watering hole and discussed the challenge of cutting $600 million out of the operating budget. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=503112 South Dakota Wheat Growers Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

and empirical implications that focus on the interface between technological shifts and identity change at multiple levels. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-048.pdf   Cases & Course... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010

comparative statics and time-series dynamics that are consistent with the empirical features of repo market data, including the credit crisis of 2007-2008. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-025.pdf   Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50700 How Do Customers Respond to Increased Service Quality Competition? By: Buell, Ryan W., Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Abstract—When does increased service quality competition lead to customer defection, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

multibillion-dollar Capital Cities/ABC media empire of the 1990s. Not long after, laboring in similar obscurity in rural Ohio, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. (MBA '61), and H. Irving Grousbeck (MBA '60), cofounders of Continental Cablevision,... View Details
  • 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

November–December 2015 Operations Research Active Postmarketing Drug Surveillance for Multiple Adverse Events By: Goh, Joel, Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir, Mohsen Bayati, and Stefanos A. Zenios Abstract—Postmarketing drug surveillance is the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

costs, vendor profitability is often driven by the ability to "lock in" customers. Despite a large theoretical literature, there are few empirical studies on the success of vendor pricing and product strategies to achieve... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

interest. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation, an agency that funds partnerships between universities and private companies. We assess the effect on participating firms' innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

adequate because they possess the Invariant Proportion of Substitution (IPS) property, which imposes counter-intuitive restrictions on individual choice behavior. Indeed our empirical application to prescription writing choices of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

Using data from Boston, we show that reserve and precedence adjustments have similar quantitative effects. Our results illustrate that policies about precedence, heretofore underexplored, are inseparable from other aspects of admissions policy. Moreover, our findings... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

well as theory and empirical research on the organizational outcomes of private political activism for social change. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51347 The Costs of Sovereign Default: Evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne