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- 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2
Abstract—General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the U.S. market fell from 62.6% to 19.8%, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this paper we argue that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 9
two countries reveals that America's love affair with credit was not primarily the consequence of its culture of consumption, as many writers have observed, nor directly a consequence of its less generous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
restrictions for the highly skilled in developed countries portend a future of increased human capital outflows from developing countries. The myriad consequences of these developments View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
2017 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job By: Bussgang, Jeffrey J. Abstract—Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
this area in a variety of disciplines—economics, geography, marketing, organizational behavior, psychology, sociology, and strategy—in order to explore the many ways that locations matter for firms. In eleven varied papers, the authors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
Market categories—SUVs, smartphones, hip replacement surgeons—help facilitate commerce and other "market exchanges" by providing a basis for comparison and valuation. If I am hunting for a new SUV,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
(in press) Abstract This paper discusses the causes and consequences of the (surprisingly) limited extent to which social influence research has penetrated the field of negotiation and then presents a framework View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
Working PapersDigital Interactivity: Unanticipated Consequences for Markets, Marketing, and Consumers Authors:John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld Abstract The digital interactive transformation in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
all out, you discover that it’s not the right technology for the problem.” Academic researchers are “almost too married to their ideas and technologies, but I don’t blame them,” says Maria Roche, assistant professor in the Strategy Unit... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
Working PapersPlatform Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Andrei Hagiu Abstract This paper provides a basic conceptual framework for interpreting non-price instruments used by multi-sided platforms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
the consequences of their actions. Koehn: We should ask ourselves, How do we incite the best in our students? How do we help them learn that they're responsible for other people? One expectation our students... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
PublicationsHappiness Runs in a Circular Motion: Evidence for a Positive Feedback Loop between Prosocial Spending and Happiness Authors:Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Journal of Happiness Studies 13... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
and geographic reach. Q: How widespread are noncompetes today? And what are the consequences for those who sign them? A: These days, noncompetes seem nearly universal, and not just in technology companies. I... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
and to an institutional breakdown where the rule of law was shattered in the country, thus posing challenges not just related to the current situation, but also to the future of the operation. The crisis bore consequences View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27
ideas across academic communities. The Predictive Value of Accruals and Consequences for Market Anomalies Authors:Francois Brochet, Seunghan Nam, and Joshua Ronen Publication:The Journal of Accounting,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
has real microeconomic consequences causing consternation for companies, small businesses, and entrepreneurs. Q:Do you think the Indian political climate has contributed to the current economic situation? A:... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 25 Sep 2007
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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 paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
“ancient quest to measure.” Specific discontinuities in the practice of information science are identified that, the paper argues, have large consequences for the social order. The infrastructure that runs... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25
Publications Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance Author: Gary P. Pisano Publication: Harvard Business Review Press, in press. (due October 2012) Abstract For years-even decades-in response to intensifying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne