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- 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
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Working PapersThe Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community Authors:Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards Abstract In this paper, we examine the motivations of large View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
researchers collected time-use information through daily phone calls with each CEO's personal assistant (PA) or with the CEO himself (99 percent of the sample consisted of male CEOs). On the first day of the week, a researcher would call... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
examined the role of business in ending global poverty, strike anyone else as being in poor taste? If “Every day, nearly 3 billion people have to get by on this,” as the headline and stark image of two crumpled dollar bills on the magazine’s front cover View Details
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
Venezuela could also strike reasonable deals. It may run the resulting state-owned enterprises somewhat less efficiently than foreign firms would, but as I discovered for one of the electric power plants in Indonesia, the country may be... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Inc's model—designed to be replaced as scientific advances produce materials that can capture carbon more efficiently and more cheaply. MK: We as an organization fully believe that the best sorbent or the best technology has not yet been... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
between information and accountability. Sharing a River among Satiable Countries Authors:Lars Ehlers and S. Ambec Periodical:Games and Economic Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract We consider the problem of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
changes in fundamentals. Similarly, asymmetry embedded in the analysts' scenario-based valuations conveys information about asymmetric risk-reward exposure and predicts skewness in future long-run valuation errors; however, embedded... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
effects of v4 scarcity, while obtaining price discovery and allocative efficiency benefits of market transactions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-091.pdf Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
be able to coordinate their actions when messages' arrivals at their destinations are sufficiently correlated events. Correlation serves to fill in information gaps that arise when players are uncertain of the source of message failure,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
institutional accounts (that are not subject to the reporting requirements) at the exact same quarter-end dates. Moreover, the returns to these cloaked trades continue to accrue over the subsequent quarter and do not reverse in the following year, implying that these... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
Government Efficiency, and Profitability Around the World By: Healy, Paul M., George Serafeim, Suraj Srinivasan, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We examine how cross-country differences in product, capital, and labor market competition, and government View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
Robert S. Huckman: Breaking down barriers to care—for good The urgency of the pandemic has brought on a pervasive easing of formal and informal regulation in health care. Payment for telemedicine has expanded and, accordingly, physicians... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
models, not just incremental adjustments or extensions. Institutional economics can help prospective and established managers recognize the role of formal and informal institutions and enable them to work around the "institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
and M. Utku Ünver Abstract Many markets have "unraveled" and experienced inefficient, early, dispersed transactions, and subsequently developed institutions to delay transaction timing. However, it has previously proved difficult to measure and identify the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
patent applications in 1976 to 16% in 2008. This is partly driven by the increase in the prevalence of information and communication technology; however, even for patents unrelated to information and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
with higher average information asymmetries. We fail to find evidence consistent with this proposition. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-014.pdf PublicationsLocation Strategies and Knowledge Spillovers Authors:Juan... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
clothes at a retailer, or checking into a flight at an airport-and in which NCR software would register the transactions, securely store and process the data, and use the transaction information to help NCR customers View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608080 Bidding on Martha's Vineyard (A) Harvard Business School Case 908-044 To buy a desirable Martha's Vineyard property, Robert and Sally Franklin must craft a bidding strategy View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
about how do you get a monopoly to behave in a manner that treats its customers with respect, that drives efficiency and innovation as it would if it was competing for its business and for its life. If you'd asked me would I want to do... View Details