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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Noncompetes and Inventor Mobility: Specialists, Stars, and the Michigan Experiment

Several scholars have documented the positive consequences of job-hopping by inventors, including knowledge spillovers and agglomeration and the concentration of spinoffs. This work investigates a possible antecedent of inventor mobility: regional variation in the... View Details
Keywords: Contracts; Laws and Statutes; Intellectual Property; Innovation and Invention; Michigan
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Open Source Software Policy in Industry Equilibrium

Open source software (OSS) is a form of public knowledge widely provided and relied on by the private sector. To study the effects of growing government involvement in this critical public good, I build a new empirical model where high-tech firms choose software inputs... View Details
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    Christopher T. Stanton

    Christopher Stanton is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Professor Stanton's research streams focus on personnel economics, organizational economics, labor markets, and entrepreneurship. His MBA... View Details

    • 01 Feb 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Noncompetes and Inventor Mobility: Specialists, Stars, and the Michigan Experiment

    Keywords: by Matt Marx, Deborah Strumsky & Lee Fleming
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Do Network Dynamics Undermine Idea-based Network Advantages? Experimental Results from an Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

    By: Rembrand Koning
    Do networks plentiful in ideas provide early stage startups with performance advantages? On the one hand, network positions that provide access to a multitude of ideas are thought to increase team performance. On the other hand, research on network formation argues... View Details
    Keywords: Networks; Performance; Business Startups; Business Strategy
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    • June 2008
    • Journal Article

    Strategic Alliances: Bridges Between 'Islands of Conscious Power'

    By: George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy
    Strategic alliances range from unstructured collaborations, through consortia and joint ventures that superimpose new governance structures on existing firms, to transactions that restructure firm boundaries and asset ownership. In this paper, we draw on detailed... View Details
    Keywords: Governance; Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Strategy; Theory
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Private Networks of Managers and Financial Analysts and Their Externality on a Firm's Information Environment

    By: Zengquan Li, T.J. Wong and Gwen Yu
    When emerging market firms raise external capital, they face a tradeoff where greater transparency may lead to a lower cost of capital but at the cost of revealing proprietary information in their relational business practices. We find that firms overcome this... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Market; Financial Analysts; Information; Emerging Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Corporate Governance
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    • 21 Apr 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: April 21, 2009

    institutional theory, and economic theory. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Broadening Focus: Spillovers and the Benefits of Specialization in the Hospital Industry Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • March 2018
    • Article

    Global Business over Time

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This article explores how business enterprises have been powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism between 1840 and the present day. It also shows how global firms, emerging out of industrialized Western economies, created and co-created markets and ecosystems... View Details
    Keywords: Global; Multinational; Business History; Globalization; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Economic Systems
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    • 05 Sep 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: September 5, 2006

    can increase creativity within a firm, they also aid in the diffusion of creative knowledge to other firms through personnel and knowledge transfer. Firms that operate within small worlds such as in Silicon... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

    different factors. First, there could be a spillover from broader societal inequalities. For example, Black and Hispanic workers are overrepresented in blue collar and service positions. “Companies such as Google and Facebook have pretty... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 15 Dec 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

    to counterfactuals, multinationals with greater factor-market externalities, knowledge spillovers, and vertical linkages exhibit significant co-agglomeration. The importance of these factors differs across headquarters, subsidiary, and... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 22 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 22

    demand for control over remittances in the baseline survey. We also find positive spillovers of our savings intervention in the form of increased savings at other banks (specifically, banks in the U.S.). We interpret the effects we find... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Finance - Faculty & Research

    subsequent insurance demand. Using a seven-year panel, we develop three main findings. First, recent experience matters for demand, consistent with overinference from small samples. Second, spillovers also matter, in the sense that the... View Details
    • 27 Feb 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards

    addition, employee lateness or absenteeism can have spillover effects. Specifically, one employee being late or absent can negatively affect not only store operations, but also their coworkers by making them stay to make up for the lost... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Retail
    • 09 Nov 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: November 9, 2010

    into our theoretical framework. The framework generates a simple test using patent citations that indicates that entrants and small firms have relatively higher growth spillover effects. Download the paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 May 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: May 22

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-100.pdf Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: The Impact of Task Decomposition and Knowledge Distribution on the Locus of Innovation Authors:Karim R. Lakhani, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, and Michael L.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 13 Dec 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

    Founders: An Entrepreneur’s Dilemma Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers Financial Distancing: How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation Feedback or ideas to share?... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services
    • Web

    Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

    Barbara Larson. Our Work-From-Anywhere Future , Harvard Business Review, 2020. Is It Time to Let Employees Work From Anywhere? , Harvard Business Review, 2019. With Barbara Z. Larson and Cirrus Foroughi. The Ethnic Migrant Inventor Effect: Codification and... View Details
    • 09 Apr 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

    firms are routinizing their tacit knowledge and tasks? In the same study, we also look at whether the quality management practices implemented in conjunction with ISO 9000 have spillover effects on how they... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace