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- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
knowing "who we are" might depend in part on repeatedly remembering to forget "who we were not." The Enabling Role of Social Position in Diverging from the Institutional Status Quo: Evidence from the U.K. National... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Benjamin Abstract—I present the institutions and incentives of online reviews, including attracting initial reviews, assuring truthful reviews of genuine experiences, and avoiding inflated or deceptive reviews. I also explore the competition and consumer protection... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
reflected in stock prices. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43177 Cost of Capital Dynamics Implied by Firm Fundamentals Authors:Lyle, Matthew, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract We provide a tractable stock valuation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707486 Corporate Venture Capital at Eli Lilly Harvard Business School Case 806-092 Reviews the role of corporate View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local or View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies. We focus on managerial and organizational challenges for organizations pursuing these strategies and identify four institutional logic shifts associated with these strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
by managers facing intertemporal decisions. We assess the association between different types of performance measures and the time horizon of business unit managers who have profit responsibility. Our results, based on a sample of 105... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
years. We argue that the current world economic conjuncture is the product of a large and unusual divergence or "wedge" between the returns on capital and the cost of capital. Globalization—in particular the integration of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
salient, and so understanding these dynamics will be helpful for researchers addressing institutional isomorphism and change. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-034.pdf PublicationsEntrepreneurship and Global View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
default. Over the two years preceding default, we find that ratings grow increasingly pessimistic relative to a standard benchmark rating model prediction, while optimism remains for similar firms that do not default. Further, we find that lender recovery rates are... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/319032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 719-403 Accomplice: Scaling Early Stage Finance Accomplice, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston, is raising... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
into an ambitious Financial Inclusion Program to serve previously unbanked rural populations through a rapid expansion of its branch network and the use of nonbank business correspondents? In addition, should the bank commit part of its scarce View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
coders display pervasive stereotypes, associating warmth with women and competence and negativity with men. We also find that warmer participants, particularly warmer women, are under-rewarded by their groups. Equity Concerns Are Narrowly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
sector financial help a joint venture was set up with POEMA, a modern high-tech factory built, and coca plantations developed. Some 5,000 people were employed. Literacy levels soared. Political participation increased. Change had been... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
estimates of real consumption across countries without the need for consumer price index extrapolations. We discuss advantages and limitations associated with the use of online prices for PPPs, including issues of representativeness and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
destruction is an old idea, going back at least to Schumpeter. We typically associate it with entrepreneurship. Someone has a brilliant new idea, everyone is excited and the entrepreneur and his customers are much better off. But, in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
other relevant variables, we find that grocery spending increases by $1.59 with the use of a $10-off coupon. In addition, even though the receipt of a $10-off coupon does not correspond to a meaningful increase in wealth, the extra spending View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
Chinese entrepreneurs educated or trained in the United States remained here to start their companies if they could do so. In Beijing, we met a number of these entrepreneurs who are choosing instead to be based full-time in China, even if they have U.S.-based View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
start, locate, or invest in a city. As HBS professor Michael Porter has explained in The Competitive Advantage of Nations, political units—whether nations or cities - are in competition with each other and can control their destiny using... View Details