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  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average skill intensity and reliance on external capital. Third, we use a new dataset... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Chicago press on June 1 in an edited volume entitled Accelerating Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors. In detailed histories of agriculture, chemicals, semiconductors, computers, the internet and biopharmaceuticals we asked "what... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

developments in the Bangladesh ready-made garment industry after the fire at Tazreen Fashions factory, including formation of the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Accord (“Accord”) and the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

Stages of Innovation Through the lens of biopharmaceutical contract research organization (CRO) PAREXEL, this case traces the evolution of the firm as it reinvents itself in response to the transformation of the CRO sector from a small,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

companies increasingly are participants in open communities of science and technology. To participate in the system of exchange in such communities, firms often publicly disclose what would otherwise remain private discoveries. In a quantitative case study of one firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial Administration after World War II. This episode illustrates the increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

learning from parallel R&D projects in the setting of drug development. Leveraging the biopharmaceutical industry's unique characteristics to overcome barriers to measuring the project-level response to competitor news, I employ a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

somewhere to stay. Clustering created positive externalities drawing new entrepreneurs into the industry who could also learn from knowledge spillovers. There were downsides to the new industry. The creation of the national image of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Industry General Management, Entrepreneurial Management Michael S. Kaufman , Andy Pforzheimer Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Accounting & Management, General Management Robert Simons Fall 2025... View Details
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

world’s most pressing issues,” says Sarika Mendu (MBA 2020), one of founders. Damaris Skouras (MBA 1982) is founder, chairman, and CEO of Olatec Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical firm. Olatec recently announced it is enrolling patients in... View Details