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- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
the capabilities they need. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52603 September 2017 Current History China Gambles on Modernizing Through Urbanization By: Looney, Kristen, and Meg Rithmire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
developments. His work examines how "sell-side financial analysts incorporate accounting information in their earnings forecasts, common stock valuations, and investment recommendations." He also analyzes management reporting of... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
that a firm has been executing its current strategy. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-103.pdf 'My Bad!' How Internal Attribution and Ambiguity of Responsibility Affect Learning from Failure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
administrator, she received the same kind of pushback against establishing cluster development from White House national economic policy advisor Lawrence Summers, president emeritus and current university professor at Harvard University.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Business Harvard Business School Case 608-136 Novartis is a science-based drug company, which has important implications for its business strategy. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world with over $38B in sales in 2007. Pharmaceuticals View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
cross-state spillovers or business-stealing from one state to another are important, but do not account for all of the effect. Agglomeration effects from local innovation clusters tend to weaken responsiveness to taxation. Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
this period, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) delivered some important technologies for the corporation. One of the most critical inventions was laser printing for Xerox's printers and copiers, an effort that led to new Xerox products View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
patent provides strong protection. For writers, a complete screenplay would better ensure copyright protection because the plot, dialogue, and characters are much better defined. In addition, “the threat of selling the idea to the buyer’s rival reduces the View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
where top execs tested whether the current business model was robust enough for the challenges lying ahead. While LEGO has sold toys in Asia for three decades, there is serious potential to improve market share and maybe even outgrow... View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Because the current empirical literature does not account for this intertemporal channel, it may underestimate the total work disincentive effect of SSDI. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
these dynamics has been constrained by fragmentation within relevant management research. In this paper, we clarify and describe two narratives that have emerged within past and current research on growth and the internal organization.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
trading and investing being particularly controversial. We focus on the role of banks in the private equity market. We show that bank-affiliated private equity groups accounted for a significant share of the private equity activity and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Brazil and Russia. My London School of Economics colleague Janet Hunter and I start our chapter with skepticism about such rankings, suggesting for example that the good standing of the United States in such metrics probably fails to take into View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
practical steps that merchants can take to prevent multiple purchases? A: In practice, it's not easy to prohibit the purchase of multiple vouchers. A voucher service can configure its systems so that a single account only lets a user... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
of capitalism, and it demonstrates the unsettling effects of the rise of the United States on European powers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53430 2017 Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
David F., Eric C. So, and Charles C.Y. Wang Publication:Journal of Accounting & Economics Abstract Firms with central or well-connected boards of directors earn superior risk-adjusted stock returns. Initiating a long position in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
toward gunfire, where they certainly would be needed. Southwest Airlines famously provides structure to staff built on culture and an aligned operating model. In the field, staff members know what levers they can pull to respond to View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
its historic status as a vendor of the Macintosh personal computer (PC) line. Mac sales remained vital to Apple's future, but they now accounted for less than half of its total revenue. The company's line of iPod media players, its iTunes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
in as personal and amiable a way as possible, asks 10,000 customers to close their accounts every month. It's important to point out that this is out of a current base of about 6.5 million customers who give... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
2012, with a positive current account balance. While it still exports services, it is increasing its assembly of manufactured products and trying to increase mining. For these activities, however, it needs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne