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  • 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

must choose to improve an old technology (steel) or to develop a new material (carbon fiber). The decision must take into account a complicated context: increased demand for the "old" steel products made in Italy, increasing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

role of telecommunications firms in providing content. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53774 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

cross-state spillovers or business-stealing from one state to another are important, but do not account for all of the effect. Agglomeration effects from local innovation clusters tend to weaken responsiveness to taxation. Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

purchases the same customers make when shopping without a coupon. The standard permanent income or lifecycle theory of consumption predicts that grocery spending will be unaffected by the use of a $10-off coupon, while a simple mental... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

this period, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) delivered some important technologies for the corporation. One of the most critical inventions was laser printing for Xerox's printers and copiers, an effort that led to new Xerox products View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 01 Jun 2024
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Conducting Business

In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
Keywords: Michael Farmer (MBA 1971); illustration by Lucinda Rogers; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

now a dynamic and growing business that attracts the best and the brightest. It is tempting to declare the industry a roaring success. But its purpose is to serve the needs of U.S. households and firms, and by this standard its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The New Math of Customer Relationships

organization's strategic focus. This is typically not something that an organization advertises. But it is standard practice in a number of organizations today. For example, at ING DIRECT, the fastest-growing financial services... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

commitment to transparency increase the likelihood of providing fair values prior to their required provision under International Accounting Standard 40 - Investment Property. We also find that firms not... View Details
  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

pricing, customer selection, and management of prices and accounts in an inherently uncertain, volatile demand environment. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/819003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 719-424 The a2... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

control over the use of remittances. In partnership with a Salvadoran bank, we offered U.S.-based migrants from El Salvador bank accounts in their home country into which they could send remittances. We randomly varied migrant control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

business-government relations, nonmarket strategy, and organization theory. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shiatt/GMO_paper_AMJ.pdf ISO Standards Stamp Approval Authors:Michael James and Michael W. Toffel Publication:European... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals

decide, for example, when to disclose plans for the merger, what restrictions to place on insider use of information, what counts as fair and proper accounting and taxation, and how to treat employees who may lose their jobs. "In M&As;... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
  • 01 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

intentionality and conclude with a call for scholars to define normative standards as they pertain to negotiator ethics. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53709 Analyzing the Aftermath of a Compensation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

features a regime-switching short-rate model. We evaluate the out-of-sample performance of our model in terms of forecasting ability and coverage properties and find that it improves on the standard Diebold and Li model. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

questions I placed. Silence, in my opinion, indicates something important is at stake. I overcame these hurdles by first investing time in getting to know these workers, then by ensuring anonymity to informants (a standard practice in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • 01 Jun 2012
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Made in the USA

Jim Knott's Aquamesh lobster traps set a new standard for durability, quickly supplanting the wooden traps used by generations of lobstermen. Chinese knockoffs failed to match Aquamesh's patented process. Will business leaders reconnect... View Details
Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; cheese; lobster fishing; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

feature-level entry choices. In addition, we contribute to work on dominant designs, going beyond characterizing a dominant design as a set of technological choices to understanding cognitive convergence on a standard set of demand-side... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2002
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Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

they understand themselves differs from the standards society has set. These contradictions produce potent demands for what Holt terms utopian desires—the desire for imaginative constructions that will resolve the felt tensions. Brands... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

the years, with the number of proposals filed doubling from 1999 to 2013. We use recent innovations in accounting standard setting to classify 2,665 shareholder proposals that address environmental, social,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne