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- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
although research on this topic has often focused on high technology manufacturing companies, I have written extensively on the service sector, on business groups and alliances rather than hierarchical... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
so that it would act in the national interest. Exporting began to be seen as a route to development, and foreign firms offered both the technology and access to markets that might make exports possible. Many state-owned firms—some of... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
OTT, along with a recession, and use it to analyze cord-cutting behavior (i.e., dropping of cable/satellite subscriptions). We find high levels of cord cutting during this time and evidence that it became relatively more prevalent among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
and the distribution of farm sizes remained extremely unequal. We identify two primary causes for the slow progress of reform: first, the high cost of implementing these programs was a major factor in reducing take-up. On the other hand,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
innovative solutions? Can Innovation And Creativity Be Managed? High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet Many managers in business experience difficulty dealing with their best creative thinkers. So how does violinist Paul Robertson,... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
and Yaron Yehezkel Abstract In the context of platform competition in a two-sided market, we study how ex-ante uncertainty and ex-post asymmetric information concerning the value of a new technology affects the strategies of the platforms... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
International Corporation: 'Reverse BOT' Harvard Business School Case 609-062 Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is executing a strategy that leverages the desires of municipalities in China to build clusters of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
negative outcomes in knowledge and technology transfer. Business enterprises emerge both as important drivers of international economic growth and as significant agents in the divergent patterns of wealth and poverty that have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
forthcoming Handbook of International Trade and Transportation Transportation Cost and the Geography of Foreign Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen Abstract—Falling transportation costs and rapid technological progress in recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He used examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall into traps that lead to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
addresses this shortfall as part of a larger research agenda investigating how companies manage to succeed in this particular arena. Verganti coauthored the article with Claudio Dell'Era, his colleague at Italy's Politecnico di Milano. "Researchers have been... View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
pension plan but want to go out and do something exciting," said Saluja. "The core businesses themselves are bleeding the talent out at a pretty high rate. "Almost everybody is looking at how do you really get something... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency reversal at the other. Unlike... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
diversification strategies. The article concludes by suggesting a research agenda for dynamic capabilities. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53220 Carbon Tariffs: Effects in Settings with Technology Choice... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
payoffs differently than private households do. This gives the government a "social risk management" motive: projects that ameliorate market failures when household marginal utility is high are appealing. The second friction is that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
Publications 2006 Harvard Business Review Press Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics By: Davenport, Thomas H., and Jinho Kim Abstract—Managers today need to be able to analyze and make sense of data. They need to be conversant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1475725 Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation Author:William R. Kerr Abstract We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
influence, intermittent social influence, or no social influence. Groups in the intermittent social-influence treatment found the optimum solution frequently (like groups without influence) but had a high mean performance (like groups... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban living capacity, by combining low carbon and resource-efficient development with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to better manage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
or six companies, and it's very possible they could be competitors with each other" sometimes, he said, simply because it's as important to support the development of the technology. A company does not have to be first to market with a new View Details