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  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

traffic are sufficiently improved relative to the offerings of the ad auctions when separate. When there is an insufficient improvement, such mergers can harm advertisers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-055.pdf Investing in Improvement: Strategy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

we all experience some degree of this pressure in our own daily work lives, in this series of studies I examined what happens to team dynamics and performance when the pressure is significantly intensified. Ironically, Gardner found that just when teams need to marshal... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007

bidding process. Describes these events in detail, while providing information for students on CWA's history, the nature of Section 363 auctions, and the bidders who were involved in the process. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

times the $132 billion that the 1995 Kobe earthquake did, making it one of the Japan's most costly natural disasters. Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 21 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to Sink a Startup

is just launching, but devising a static split doesn't properly reflect the fluid nature of startups. My research also shows that 33 percent of startups split 50-50, usually when the team is splitting early. In these cases, the founders... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

Paid transfers of IP addresses would better allocate resources to those who need them most, but unrestricted transfers might threaten the Internet's routing system. I suggest policies to facilitate an IP address "market" while... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

Publications, 2011 Abstract The sole objective of our ontological/phenomenological approach to creating leaders is to leave students actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

young firms, given the uncertainties that were a natural part of the entrepreneurial process," Lerner explained. "General Doriot's idea was to create a new kind of organization that established a selection process, supplied... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

financial performance, they overlook the greatest unmet needs in the market as well as broader influences on their long-term success. Why else would companies ignore the well-being of their customers, the depletion of natural View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks Bringing Agency Back Into Network Research: Constrained Agency and Network Action By: Gulati, Ranjay, and Sameer B. Srivastava Abstract—We propose a framework of constrained agency grounded in the actors' View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We collect data on operations, targets, and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26

Evidence from a Natural Experiment Authors:Cohen, Alma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract This paper examines whether staggered boards reduce firm value or are merely associated with it due to the tendency of low-value firms to maintain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

spend resources to adopt some of the state-of-the-art technologies. Rich countries are sufficiently close for companies to be able to adopt these technologies by themselves. Poor countries are very far from the frontier, so it is... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

in expectation. We also show that by offering both CPC and CPA, an ad platform can weakly increase its revenues compared to offering either alternative alone. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-074.pdf Competition and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2020
  • Op-Ed

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

preventable deaths, despite its world-class resources and medical technology. The Democratic presidential candidates have been debating the benefits of the “Medicare for All” approach versus a public insurance option. The former would... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration
  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

effect, these individuals bridge the lacunae between distant groups in the company's social structure. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-004.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment (revised)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

that majority-owned PE-backed firms engage in more book-tax conforming and nonconforming tax planning than other private firms. We attribute these results to the managerial sophistication and resources available to majority-owned... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

viewing everyone as a customer, you fundamentally change the nature of the value proposition that exists between you and the entities with whom you interact."2 This theme is echoed in another recent book, Everyone Is a Customer:... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 19 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

problems inherent in corporate R&D funding and offers up possible solutions. The key to success, he believes, may lie in adopting a hybrid model that combines aspects of both the corporate research lab and the world of VC-backed start-ups. "When you look... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

self-control) in one domain subsequently reduces one's capacity to regulate behavior in other domains. One reason is that people have limited self-regulatory resources, and self-regulatory failure occurs when these resources become... View Details

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