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- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
and less constrained groups. Finally, the primary merchant uses of refunds are to pay for necessities (grocery stores, gas stations, etc.), and the fraction of the refund spending devoted to these necessities is higher for those with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
International, a company publishing 70 editions of its free newspaper in 20 countries. Metro had been a pioneer in the free newspaper market, fighting incumbent publishers distributing traditional paid-for newspapers. Looks at the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
deeply personal. In 2021, wind and solar comprised 70% of new U.S. generating capacity additions, with natural gas accounting for just 16%. Diana specifically cited Lazard’s analysis of the relative costs of... View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
innovative new product for the treatment of acne that they hope to sell to consumers via direct-response television. The unconventional nature of the product and its distribution has led the company to seek... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
brain-like?” And that, she says, is the key not only to better AI, but to a better understanding of what makes us human. When Dubinsky declares something to be the next big thing, it isn’t empty Valley bravado. She has worked at the forefront of personal computing at... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
fail to spend sufficient time learning to understand ourselves and creating our own definition of success? The truth is, it can seem so natural and so much easier to just do what everyone else is doing-for now-leaving it for later to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
spirit and in practice, organizational conversation is quite different from corporate communication. The latter function grew naturally out of the command-and-control model. Top-down and one-way in its orientation, corporate communication... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
phronesis: experiential knowledge that enables people to make ethically sound judgments. Wise leaders demonstrate six abilities. They make decisions on the basis of what is good for the organization and for society. They quickly grasp the essence of a situation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
of both mechanisms successfully generates a sizable secular increase. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51107 Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Evidence from the Massachusetts Natural Experiment By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
show that, even in a world with perfect capital markets and without differences in innate ability, wealthy parents invest, on average, more in their offspring than poorer ones. As a result, persistence of economic status is higher at the top of the income View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
so different from those found in other countries. Sean Silverthorne: Why has this issue on taxing foreign profit become so central? Mihir Desai: I think there are several reasons for these developments. First, the integrated, global View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
industry. In this article we explain why and how. We also show how management can shape the architecture of the industry in ways that have consequences for the distribution of profits amongst firms in an industry. Paper not available at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
2005 on business solutions for alleviating poverty. The work combines chapters from a variety of perspectives—business, academic, government, nonprofit—to examine the nature of poverty, how the poor can become producers as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
Similarly, in the case of an energy company like Enron, this model would call on directors to be concerned not just with shareholder value when deciding whether to manipulate the trading of natural gas... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
vans because back in the 1960s and ’70s—and still now—there was no way to reach the consumer who shopped at mom-and-pop stores. Today their distribution networks are formidable barriers to entry for most competitors in their segments.... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
gathering tasks. We use the framework and examples of successful research studies in the nancial reporting literature to clarify how data-gathering choices affect a study’s ability to achieve its goals and conclude by showing how the complementary View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
surrounding management of creative ensembles. The topics discussed include: the nature and attainment of mastery (as opposed to technical competence); master and apprentice relationships; the details of collaborative work and workspace;... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
a friend introduced me to a remarkable red wine. Delving into wine suits my personality—I’m a naturally curious person and enjoy diving into the nitty-gritty of things. Wines offer endless layers of intrigue: from the terroir (soil,... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
business. It is argued that the country of origin of a technological innovation is less economically important than the ability of a society to capitalize on that innovation and convert it into profitable business opportunities. Corporations with superior marketing and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel