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  • 22 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

of the intriguing findings from our analysis is that electronic and face-to-face interactions are near perfect complements. In other words, people talk to the very same people they e-mail. As electronic collaboration technologies further... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

profitability of a vertically integrated monopoly. We then use our model to compare open and closed standards regimes, to understand how commoditization affects a cluster, to determine the relative profits of platform firms and firms that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

and gas (O&G) sector. This points to the importance of developing understanding of the marginal abatement cost functions for methane emissions reductions. Scholars have employed a diverse set of methodologies to estimate abatement costs,... View Details
  • Web

Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Policy & Money Markets More Info The Private Costs of Highly Levered Banks By: Juliane Begenau & Erik Stafford JUN 2016 The choice of relatively high leverage as a means to reduce the overall View Details

    Malcolm P. Baker

    Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences.

    His research is in the... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; biotechnology; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds); shipping; transportation
    • 2012
    • Chapter

    Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

    By: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein and Rebecca M. Henderson
    We address a longstanding question about the causes of creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Competition; Information Technology; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Relationships; Information Technology Industry
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    • 18 Oct 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: October 18

    giving a subsidy as a lump sum to offset capital costs is more effective. This has different regulatory implications for urban and rural settings where the environmental objectives may differ. Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Apr 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

    other images randomly assigned to each of them by the firm’s centralized queuing system. The analysis covered all 2,766,209 cases that the firm processed between July 2005 and December 2007. Because the radiologists did their work at... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
    • 30 May 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

    By: Cheng, J. Yo-Jud, and Boris Groysberg Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52696 Seeker Beware: The Relational Costs of Ignoring Advice By: Blunden, Hayley, Alison Wood... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 13 Mar 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: March 13, 2007

    processes. In particular, our analysis systematically disentangles the obstacles that members of low status social groups must overcome to elicit verification of their positive self-views. People in this situation are not only working... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2010
    • Book

    The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal

    By: Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu
    On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was officially opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a... View Details
    Keywords: Political History; For-Profit Firms; Development Economics; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Ship Transportation; Panama; United States
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    • 12 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 12, 2006

    portion of their award winning investor relations program, and had previously been used only to enhance communications. The case allows a discussion of the relative merit of more formally including this information in BP's planning and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 Oct 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: October 21, 2008

    plus city and industry fixed effects explain between sixty and eighty percent of manufacturing entry. We use spatial distributions of natural cost advantages to address partially endogeneity concerns. Download the paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 03 Jan 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension

    Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole; Agriculture & Agribusiness

      W. Carl Kester

      Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)
      • 30 Sep 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: September 30, 2008

      importance of these effects depends on the nature of the innovation problem being solved. The analysis uses data from TopCoder's software contest platform, on which elite software developers were assigned different problems to solve... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 31 Mar 2022
      • Op-Ed

      Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services

      drive costs down and benefit from specialization because of its high volume of activities. "With growth, the way a firm is managed has to change, and that change is not easy." Among law firms, Wachtell Lipton maintains a premium market... View Details
      Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
      • 25 Sep 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: September 25, 2007

      advantage of factor cost differences. We find that overwhelmingly, multinationals tend to own the stages of production proximate to their final production giving rise to a class of high-skill intra-industry vertical FDI. Download the... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 20 Oct 2015
      • First Look

      October 20, 2015

      illustrative example, we show that production subsidies of higher investment and production cost technologies (such as carbon capture and storage technologies) have no effect on the firm's optimal total capacity when firms own a portfolio... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 07 Jun 2023
      • HBS Case

      3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook

      ingredients to set itself apart from Taco Bell. Fast-food customers looking for healthy options are willing to pay more for what they consider a higher-quality product. At the same time, however, “you can imagine that the cost of sourcing... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding