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- 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008
social networks shape the emergence and development of nascent ventures. Scholars have argued that founders' and firms' networks influence innovation and the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities, as well as facilitate the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
state initiative from above, civil society mobilized from below, using the judiciary to hold the state legally responsible for policy implementation. Reforms exposed acute gaps in service delivery, propelling new civic demands for state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within quarter) and the period between that quarter's end and the earnings... View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
Authors:Kathleen L. McGinn and Katherine L Milkman Abstract We develop an integrated theory of the social identity mechanisms linking workgroup sex and race composition across levels with individual turnover. Building on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
extraordinary social inventions. It emerges through the will of an individual who has to mobilize others—employees, customers, and investors--to join. The enterprise grows as it creates value, it adapts and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
joining the mobile network every month,” says Mittal. “Mobile phones have moved from an aspirational product to a mass product in a decade.” At the Tata Group, engineers are at work on a $2,000 car, the next step up for the millions of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
journey became the genesis of Saga. Cofounded with Nicole Wee (MBA 2018), Saga is a social mobile app that helps families save and share stories in an audio format. Launched in mid-2020, the company... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
about anything. Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the country believe it could crawl out of a depression, rallied it around social change that created a middle class, and mobilized the greatest military in the... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
Internet's routing table, which is socially costly, so an IP address market should discourage subdividing IP address blocks more than necessary. Yet IP address transfer rules also need to facilitate purchase by the networks that need the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
consumers and producers, and such changes typically required the mobilization of political power to overcome resistance to such changes. In order to support such developmental changes, the political authorities of capitalism had to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
future research. Specifically, I call for research on the materiality of environmental and social issues for the future financial performance of corporations, the design of incentive and control systems to guide strategy execution,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
Fienning, MBA Class of 1970, Section C. Five years after graduation, I was a partner in a mobile-home retailing company in Greensboro, North Carolina. I was a bachelor, living in a mobile home, and trying to create a manufactured housing... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
Moreover, we find that relatively higher wages also promote social norms such that coworkers are less (more) likely to collude to steal inventory from their company when relative wages are higher (lower). Our research contributes to an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
voluntary programs-such as certification regimes, codes of conduct, and social monitoring-that seek to enforce global standards governing business practices. But little is known about the conditions under which companies are more likely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13281 Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry Authors:Ramana Nanda and Tarun Khanna Abstract This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2008
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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 online content store and its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. Later, as a Harvard-educated business executive feeling too far from her black roots,... View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
Jeremy Grantham: Well, I feel a bit of a hypocrite because I didn’t really take my own advice. I went out to do something that sounded like fun, which is pretty shallow, and it didn’t have an enormous amount of social redeeming feature,... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
Systems with multiple components that are tightly linked to one another are prone to such events. Increasingly, our industrial, commercial, and social systems are coming to have the characteristics that predict system-level accidents—in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015
Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber? By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Damien Geradin Abstract—New software platforms use modern information technology, including full-featured web sites and mobile apps, to allow service providers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne