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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
searching for new leads. In 2008, Benjy came across an article on halofuginone (HT-100), a drug compound derived from an ancient Chinese herb that had shown promising results in treating muscular dystrophy in mice. They tracked it down to... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We study optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
"Artful," because it derives from the theory and practice of collaborative art and requires an artist-like attitude from managers and team members. "Making," because it requires that you conceive of your work as... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
also identifies criteria that make a decision strategic and derives explanations why strategies often reflect the background of the strategist. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52726 And the Children Shall... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
total consumer traffic for higher revenues derived by exposing consumers to unsolicited products (e.g., advertising). We show that competition between platforms leads to lower equilibrium levels of search diversion relative to a monopoly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers' cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London office whose derivatives trading nearly... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
business operates through two channels: designer websites and RenttheRunway.com. Shokay Jose Dias de Barros, MBA 2006 Shawn Tan, MBA 2006 Hidden from most of the world by its remote location, Shokay yak down derives its unique origins... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
filing of the 13D. Informed traders find it profitable to concentrate their trades with a leaking broker because the loss due to the information leakage is more than compensated by the gains derived from trading on the information... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
the ultimate wealth that feeds the local economy derives heavily from the traded economy. Therefore, the US economy's inability to generate net new jobs in the traded sector for the last decade is deeply disturbing. Also, the ability to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
charged to developers and to hold passive expectations. We show that platforms with more market power (monopoly) prefer facing more informed users. In contrast, platforms with less market power (i.e., facing more intense competition) have the opposite preference: they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
especially pleased to see exploratory articles on these issues that draw on the historical experience of Asia, Latin America, and Africa, as we believe that many of the conceptual advances in business history over the next generation are likely to View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
this understanding. Q: What are you working on now, and what are the next steps for the database? A: Professor Nohria and I have just completed the first book derived from the creation and analysis of the database focused on the concepts... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
in first-party content that substitutes for third-party content relative to platforms benefitting from favorable expectations. On the other hand, platforms that benefit from favorable expectations capture a larger share of total surplus from buyers and sellers. They... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
novel, as well as individual cases). Four principles guided development of the series and its associated pedagogy: 1) emphasis on integrative, soft-skill, and business-oriented aspects of IS, independent of underlying technologies; 2) student View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
station wagon and an SUV, to be released at the rate of one a year beginning in 2018. It’s an ambitious plan, but Shen is attracting plenty of support: WM, whose name derives from the German Weltmeister, for “world champion,” has already... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
Approximately 40 percent of the company's revenues are derived from products introduced within the last two years. Natura achieved this result with an R&D staff of about 150 and a budget totaling only 3 percent of net income. Compare... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
rules of commerce: Instead of selling the “means” (their products and services), they adopt innovative revenue models to pursue “ends” (actual outcomes). They show that paying by the pill, semester, food item, vehicle, or show does not necessarily reflect the value... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
valuation. I looked at what they were doing and came up with an alternative - some say more robust - way to derive the formula that has since turned out to have very wide applicability. But at the time, the work only had direct... View Details
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
interplay between men and women in a number of different organizations, and I tried to write something that would derive examples from all those organizations, as I've managed to do in subsequent big projects. But in talking with a good... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely