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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street

By: Josh Lerner, Andrew Speen, Mark Baker and Ann Leamon
In the past two decades, patents of inventions related to financial services ("finance patents"), as well as litigation around these patents, have surged. One of the repeated concerns voiced by academics and practitioners alike has been about the quality of these... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; Finance
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Overview

By: Andy Wu
How can technology entrepreneurs build competitive advantage from the ground up? Professor Andy Wu conducts scholarly research and develops course materials that document how technology entrepreneurs can (1) organize for innovation to create new market opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Technology Platform; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Video Game Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; China; Southeast Asia; South Asia
  • 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

  PublicationsPolicy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational Behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2024
  • What Do You Think?

Have You Had Enough?

within rather than how it gets compared in the trivial world with tangible possessions.” Michael Levin reminded us that it’s not easy to determine enough when he said, “Happiness, enough, and a metric for life are a hard trio to dance to. Life measured against View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

lines. The discussion can end with comparisons of the Mexican political and government circumstances that encourage this method of producing workforce housing as compared with the U.S., China, India, and other markets. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • December 5, 2024
  • Article

A Consensus Definition of Creativity in Surgery: A Delphi Study Protocol

By: Alex Thabane, Tyler McKechnie, Phillip Staibano, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W. Busse, Sameer Parpia and Mohit Bhandari
Introduction
Clear definitions are essential in science, particularly in the study of abstract phenomena like creativity. Due to its inherent complexity and domain-specific nature, the study of creativity has been complicated, as evidenced by the various... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics
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  • 10 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

Portraiture is a method of qualitative research that blurs the boundaries of aesthetics and empiricism in an effort to capture the complexity, dynamics, and subtlety of human experience and organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 11 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

companies are being managed for the long term." Their first order of business was to determine a method for categorizing companies on the short-term/long-term continuum. The answer came in the very words used by executives to discuss... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 28 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

the right times. They'd done it by implementing techniques and technologies at an unprecedented pace; among them, the lean production method introduced by W. Edwards Deming, just-in-time manufacturing, single-source suppliers, and global... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 09 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

depth in a focus group.—Gerald Zaltman Underhill shuns academic market research as being too theoretical. Yet some of this research supports Underhill's commonsense findings. Such is the case with the work of Gerald Zaltman, a Harvard Business School marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail
  • 30 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

of incident is occurring in a given unit over time, even when it is being reported. That would then make it possible to focus on how particular units resolve their problems." Identifying pockets of excellence would enable more qualitative... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

researcher-collected data, the Internet opens exceptional possibilities both by increasing the amount of information available for researchers to gather and by lowering researchers' costs of collecting information. In this paper, I explore the Internet's new datasets,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

2013 Permanente Journal Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of the Causes of Operational Failures in Hospitals By: Tucker, Anita L., W. Scott Heisler, and Laura D. Janisse Abstract—Frontline care providers in hospitals spend at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

firm profits. Publisher's link: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/groupon-2014-03-01.pdf August 2013 Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Reasoning in Entrepreneurial Theory and Research By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=2277&referral=2340 Southeast Asia and the Political Economy of Development Authors: Regina M. Abrami and Richard Doner Publication: In Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 15

performance to provide quantitative insight into the link between a firm's business model choices and its profit consequences. The method is applied to Walmart by building a qualitative representation of its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management consulting firms. Our qualitative analysis identified four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

First, we review the evidence linking charitable behavior and happiness. We present research from a variety of samples (adults, children, and primates) and methods (correlational and experimental) demonstrating that happier people give... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

  PublicationsBlending Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Tiona Zuzul Publication:In Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, edited by D. Teece and M.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

existing methods such as including observed covariates, random effects, or fixed effects. We then apply the latent space approach to identify social influence on installation of mobile apps in a social network. We find that peer influence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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