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- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
encouraged, but neither activity engages the unique skills and capabilities of business. Consider the typical corporate volunteer program. It almost invariably draws on the lowest common skills in a company by mobilizing people to do... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
people use various online social platforms, makes some predictions. In the first decade of its existence, Facebook, aided by the broad adoption of mobile devices and fast internet connections, emerged as a virtual Cheers bar where people... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
constraints. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-097.pdf The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
associate professor of technology and operations management, their paper—available for download—is titled "Noncompetes and Inventor Mobility: Specialists, Stars, and the Michigan Experiment." What they found: While noncompetes do constrain View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
organization is in the early stages of growth and is interested in testing and refining its model in new locations, or a nonprofit has less ambitious, less geographically dispersed expansion plans. In fact, our survey data show that pure... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
suggests that "Globalization will have reached its peak when we have global citizens who can pay their taxes where they please and enjoy the benefits of the government that serves them best no matter their geographic location . . .... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Location Choices Through the Value Chain By: Alcácer, Juan, and Mercedes Delgado Abstract—We explore the impact of geographically bounded, intra-firm linkages (internal agglomerations) and geographically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
increase medical business skills and raise clinical performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53281 Tournament Incentive Plans Incorporating Objective and Subjective Criteria: Implications for a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49386 Working Papers Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William Kerr Abstract—The propagation of macroeconomic shocks through input-output and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
economies. Consistent with the presence of network effects in IFRS adoption, we find that a country is more likely to adopt IFRS if other countries in its geographical region are IFRS adopters. (No PDF is available.) Cases & Course... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
forthcoming NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2015 Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and Kerr, William R. Abstract—The propagation of macroeconomic shocks through input-output and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
decline. In retail, this measure of performance proves to be extremely important. Retailers can drive revenue growth by opening new stores, but eventually, geographic markets become relatively saturated. Therefore, it is very important... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
the constraints and opportunities of their representation structure are reflected in the micro-interactions, the broad improvisations, and the resulting substantive and relational outcomes. Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
model behind the AKB48 concept and allows students to identify what geographic market—China, Indonesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, or South Korea—is more suitable for AKB48’s first move overseas. During the discussion, students... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
employees will protest or leave if they tried to do that. And a lot of companies were able to hire from a broad geographic scope that they wouldn’t have otherwise done outside of the pandemic. What do you even do about people who are in... View Details
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
earlier. Worse, he knew that mobile phones, which were also being made outside the United States, would start stealing business away from digital cameras. "Much of the camera technology was invented in the United States, but US... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
forthcoming European Competition Journal Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Damien Geradin Abstract—Since its launch in 2007, Android has become the dominant View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
same subject. Using a detailed dataset to track civil war casualties across space and over time, several patterns are documented. Conflict-related deaths are significantly higher in poorer districts and in geographical locations that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
report higher future sales growth and show a negative relation between profitability change and sales growth in high corruption geographic segments compared to firms with high anticorruption efforts. The net effect on valuation from sales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
mobility barriers have become essential components of conflict policies. Second, a family of hybrid conflict policies has evolved that feature elements of the "split account" system long practiced in Japan. "What surprised me," Silk says,... View Details