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  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for the most part, are viewed as a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban living View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

whether EforAll has the capacity to expand, and if so, which new city it should expand to first. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 418-020 GROW: Using Artificial... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

of its major holdings in joint venture companies, which would generate the financial capacity for M&A activities again in later years. In the meantime, Sijbesma wanted the company to prove it could grow organically as well. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

franca, or shared language, or in a local language-does not guarantee high performance. Recruiters may favor fluency over other capabilities. They may rely on external hires with language skills rather than grooming internal candidates with the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

robots-while examining how understanding botsourcing can inform the psychology of outsourcing-the replacement of jobs in one country by humans from other countries. We test four related hypotheses across six experiments: (1) Given people's lay theories about the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

assignment of termination and broad licensing rights to the financing firm occurs in contractually difficult environments in which there is no specifiable lead product candidate. We also analyze how the contractual design varies with the R&D firm's financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

evidence that “short-termism" and “quarterly capitalism” are impairing firms' ability to invest, innovate, and provide good wages. We explain why S&P 500 shareholder-payout figures provide a misleadingly incomplete picture of corporate capital flows and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

FRM to the study of managerial compensation. We conclude that the FRM provides an improved methodological approach to the study of bounded dependent variables. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49493 Bureaucratic Norms and State... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

sellers creates fragility-higher concentration results in more volatile risk premiums. I also employ a number of complementary approaches to address identification, such as using the 2011 Japanese tsunami as an exogenous shock to the risk bearing View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

models, and partnerships involved in eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for the most part, are viewed as a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

with internal design work, and then manufacture using the company's leading edge manufacturing facilities. Initial implementation challenges led to delays and additional engineering work, but as the designated Intel manufacturing site went to full View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2006
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How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

understood and the design space is mined out. But "mining out" is not inevitable. Some design spaces—for example, in computers, information technology, and entertainment—seem to have boundless capacity to engender new,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 17 Apr 2006
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Resisting the Seductions of Success

a natural member of this group. Tony's story strongly suggests that the most fundamental inner resource of leaders is a peculiar, negative skill. Leaders need the capacity to distance themselves from the pressures and seductions of... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

capacity to pay. We use a newly created database with state-level fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that in Brazilian states that exported commodities that were in high in demand (e.g., rubber... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

manufacturing capacity to meet state needs, Pfizer adopted an R&D program to find new microbial antibiotics suited to its manufacturing technology after the war ended. In the 1950s and 1960s, Pfizer transformed itself into a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

equivalent arrival and service rates, total service capacity can be increased. Who Should Select New Employees in Geographically Dispersed Organizations: Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

failed, resulting in manual voting and tallying delays. Using a simple model, we show signaling high institutional capacity via a mobilization campaign can negatively affect beliefs about the fairness of the election. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Oct 2015
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Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

interviews, I walked away deeply impressed by the managerial capacity in emerging markets. The domestic firms are very, very capable. Yes, they operate under particular constraints—we do not see the many middle managers typical for more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

its age. Although one path would be to shore up the LP's capacity incrementally to allow the company to sustain its momentum with minimal disruption, Nicolette felt it was just a matter of time before they had to tackle a complete rewrite... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

School Case 614-056 BGI: Data-driven Research BGI has the largest installed gene-sequencing capacity in the world, and to Zhang Gengyun, general manager of the Life Sciences Division, this represented an opportunity to apply his training... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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