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  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

field study of a young company in the sustainable cities industry. We examine how company founders, facing the high ambiguity inherent in very early phases of a new industry, formed a strategic goal. Our data show goal formation as a phased social process. By View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We examine the golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking U.S. patents to state and county-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

driven by large aggregator NPEs and is not the behavior of small innovators. We find further suggestive evidence of NPE opportunism, such as forum shopping and targeting of firms that may have reduced ability to defend themselves against... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

particularly useful for forecasting bond returns. We show that a significant decline in issuer quality is a more reliable signal of credit market overheating than rapid aggregate credit growth. We use these findings to investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

to monetizing news in the digital landscape, which is real-time, searchable, sharable, multi-sourced, anytime, and any screen, were emerging in 2010. Could content creators get people to pay for what they watched, read, listened to, and shared online? Were news View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

other content producers. They should consider which intermediaries they let into the channel and under which terms, or better yet, aim to be that intermediary themselves so as to maintain control over pricing and other marketing strategies. Initiatives like the Web... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015

governance to an increased number of startups that they are more likely to abandon, but where early experiments significantly inform beliefs about the future potential of the venture. We also highlight how this adaptation by financial intermediaries has altered the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

the last decade, a variety of novel patent intermediaries have emerged. We discuss how several online platforms have started services for buying and selling patents but have failed to gain meaningful traction. And new intermediaries that we call defensive patent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

times the $132 billion that the 1995 Kobe earthquake did, making it one of the Japan's most costly natural disasters. Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

to shareholders $7 trillion via buybacks and dividends, over 96% of their aggregate net income, prompting claims that "short-termism" is impairing firms' ability to invest and innovate. We show that, when taking into account both direct... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

this question. These firms constitute significant fractions of economic output and investment in most large economies, suggesting that they could create significant economic linkages. Aggregate measures of rates of return and investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

million. CHI Inc. is now part of Enel Green Power, part of Enel, the world's largest publicly traded electric utility. There were positive IRR investments in the consumer goods category, Honest Tea and Zip Car being two examples, but this category of companies in View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 19 Dec 2024
  • News

The Musts of 2024

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

formulating a strategy, markets and segments are typically important categories. But only customers buy. Hence, for most firms, de facto strategy and much resource allocation are the aggregate result of the deals their salespeople close.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

aggregate equity value of these companies from $10 billion to more than $175 billion in just five years, says Slaughter. Today, there are approximately 180 publicly traded REITs in the United States, with equity assets totaling $375... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • 11 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

deal-making technology. Contrary to the claims of prior commentators, I find that (1) go-shops yield more search in aggregate (pre- and post-signing) than the traditional no-shop route; (2) pure go-shop deals, in which there is no... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

The ResourceAyanda Heita, MBA 2023The Resource aggregates and curates the best secondhand fashion online. Our vision is to eliminate fashion waste. Clean Energy, Buildings, & Transportation Contestants AGAPEGraeme Johnson, MBA 1995... View Details
  • 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

only after multiyear lags, and the public-facing versions are aggregated to the county or ZIP code level. In contrast, crowdsourced data from online platforms such as Yelp are often contemporaneous and geographically finer than official... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

coefficients aggregate discrete choice model-which accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success-and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control for unobserved quality in athletics and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

economic growth and the intensive and extensive margins of technology adoption. The "extensive" margin refers to the timing of a country's adoption of a new technology; the "intensive" margin refers to how many units are adopted (for a given size... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne