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- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
(forthcoming) Abstract We suggest that online dating frequently fails to meet user expectations because people, unlike many commodities available for purchase online, are 'experience goods': Daters wish to screen potential romantic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3
generate large amounts of data, as it was capable of sequencing an entire human genome in less than eight hours. At this price, GenapSys' device would be attractive to customers that had been unable to afford sequencers, such as smaller... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
Visions of Web 3.0 Harvard Business School Case 808-147 Explores the Semantic Web, a vision for the next generation of the World Wide Web in which information is stored in machine-readable formats. While the Semantic Web would make... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
arrangements, the Stereotype Content Model (SCM) argues that ambivalence―perceiving many groups as either warm or competent, but not both―may help maintain socio-economic disparities. The association between stereotype ambivalence and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
state after an outbreak of illness. Approved the first generic versions of Coreg, a widely used medication for high blood pressure and chronic heart failure. Proposed new standards for formulating, testing, and labeling sunscreen drug... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
Harvard Business School Case 415-049 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp: Redefining Success in the U.S. (B) This (B) case describes the actions André Wyss, president of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, took in early 2012 to transform the company's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 30
tracks the origins of sweetriot from Sarah's formative early career experiences, to the company's launch and beyond as Sarah prepares future products, establishes production channels, and seeks future funding. Sarah was not content to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
were compliant (that is, 52.8% under treatment). Fifty-five (18%) had normal blood pressure readings (BP under control). The data also demonstrated higher prevalence (39%) of hypertension among tobacco users compared to non-users (28%)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
capital markets, standard setters, and financial analysts and how managers make accounting choices. But as accounting scholars have focused on understanding how markets and users process accounting data, they have distanced themselves... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial frictions exist. The mechanism generating MNC activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local partners but the demands of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
market's growth that is the primary driver of profit margins and sales growth. A few retailers have succeeded in going global by developing strategies that apply four retail-specific rules for globalization. Rule 1: The home market is the linchpin. Retailers can View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
“European business.” While internment was perceived and managed as a political risk, the case also shows that it created unexpected networking opportunities, generating a tight community of German businesspeople in India. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
within and across organizations. Despite its straightforwardness, this framework has generated debates concerning the definition of exploration and exploitation and their measurement, antecedents, and consequences. We critically review... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23
served tens of millions of transactions with total dollar value in the billions. Users have been drawn to Bitcoin for its decentralization, intentionally relying on no single server or set of servers to store transactions and also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006
General Management Program Harvard Business School Note 407-022 Discusses the importance of living room groups (eight participants who share a living room) at Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program developing into effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
and on the probability distribution over the sets of feasible alternatives that the society will face. Our methods generalize the well-known Kemeny Rule. In the Kemeny Rule, it is known a priori that the subset of feasible alternatives... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
the collective expectations of market participants. We are already in a very different moment in history compared to the middle of the 1990s. What most fascinated me was how much the content of financial orthodoxy had shifted during the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
aspects of developing globally competitive businesses. Much of their growth is driven by a wealth of smart, hard working, well-educated individuals. In other words, great human capital. However, they do not have fully formed financial markets and have not been able to... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
variables are you tracking? How are you creating accountability for performance on those variables? (4) What strategic boundaries have you set? Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? (5) How are you generating creative tension?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006
favorite content wherever they are whenever they demand it, consumption patterns will become more, not less uniform, this theory predicts. To shed light on this debate, we study the distribution of revenues across products in the context... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne