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- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
respected VC firms would be less likely to redirect information between competing startups. They found just the opposite. Companies tied to VCs in the top 25 percent of reputation indexes were significantly less likely to introduce new... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
and also examples of companies who understood this problem and created an effective product mix? A: There are clearly domains where consumers face overchoice: analgesics, automobile options, mutual funds, upholstered furniture, etc. In these domains, fewer View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
measures of national political instability—Alesina and Perotti's (1996) well-known index of instability, a subsequent index derived from Banks' (2005) work, and two indices of managerial perceptions of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
a wonderful thing if the monarch is on your side, but there is little to prevent exploitation, opportunism, and corruption by the rulers. Bahrain has been steadily sliding down the Corruption Perception Index for years. Parliamentary... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5
Allocators with suspicious partners did not significantly differ from liars on word count. Allocators with suspicious partners used more negative emotion words and profanity. Mixed support was found for indexes from Coh-Metrix that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
projects. When research activities are noncontractible, we show that it is optimal for the financing company to obtain the option right to terminate the research agreement while maintaining broad property rights to the terminated project.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
revisit another. But the goal remains the same: Find the option that can set your company on the path to disruptive growth. Customer Diagnostic This diagnostic assesses customers in order to identify "disruptable" market... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
a founder of neoclassical thought, Irving Fisher was also an active participant in the field of economic forecasting. Fisher made theoretical contributions to the understanding of economic fluctuations, popularized the use of index... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
around the world, the company's current business model (selling Sel-Plex as an ingredient) did not allow it to participate in the value created. Lyons and Alltech's directors must choose between three different options for Sel-Plex, which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
but is unlikely to be able to substitute weak business environment conditions. The second section then deploys a wide range of regional performance data collected for the European Competitiveness Index and the European Cluster... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
countries where they operate. We find that our index of transparency across host countries is lower the more corrupt the host country, the higher the number of nationalizations in that host country in the past, and the fewer the number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
estimates of real consumption across countries without the need for consumer price index extrapolations. We discuss advantages and limitations associated with the use of online prices for PPPs, including issues of representativeness and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
of the funds—at the state level the Massachusetts Transportation Authority will issue revenue bonds to finance construction. While it is true the cost of the project has risen from $2.2 billion in 1983 (not indexed for inflation) to $14.6... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of agglomeration and investigate the patterns and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
is a myth, and how eliminating options leads to more choice. In the Spirit of Napa by Jennifer Raiser (MBA 1990) (Assouline Publishing) Rasier surveys Napa’s great local culinary establishments, legendary wine pioneers and cult labels,... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008
investment in producing video content for the web. The case concludes by presenting various options under consideration by Abrahams-options that dealt both with external challenges (How should he define his brand? Which markets should he... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
First, in the case of the core and largest sector, Advertising Agencies, firm-level concentration as measured by Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) increased slightly but remained relatively low from 1977-2002. All of the HHI estimates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted by DrumNet in Kenya that attempts to help farmers adopt and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace