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- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
"freemium" business model, which is used by some Internet businesses and smartphone application developers to give users free basic features of a digital product and access to premium functionality for a subscription fee. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
1990s and 2000s magnified these challenges, as illustrated by the deployment of the descendent of the NCSA HTTPd server, otherwise known as Apache. This study asks whether this experience could produce measurement issues in standard View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
social returns when they succeed. The problem, says Esty, is that many of the largest products have hit financial turbulence. Esty, whose new book Modern Project Finance: A Casebook, was published recently, teaches the "Large-Scale... View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
through the years sharp rises in agricultural production and population quickly depleted the local water supplies. In response, the state and federal governments stepped in and created a water infrastructure of dams and aqueducts that... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
which help to provide explanations behind the divergent performances of the two countries, especially the higher levels of productivity seen in the Dutch economy since the Second World War. The Netherlands has provided much higher levels... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
be met offline or can be met only at much greater cost. Companies need to help people interact with each other before they will promote products to their friends or help companies in other ways. Done right, a company's social media should... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Public School Districts Author:Stacey Childress Abstract This working paper offers concrete examples of improved productivity and efficiencies at the district level, drawing from the author's experience working with districts and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
some people's inputs count more than their actual knowledge warrants, to the detriment of the project. The problem is common—and avoidable, says HBS professor Heidi K. Gardner, who has developed and tested a theory of pressure on teams... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Newman Abstract This paper shows that product prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
resources in the ongoing accumulation of scientific knowledge. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2478627 October 2014 Research Policy 'Open' Disclosure of Innovations, Incentives and Follow-on Reuse: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
cream), controlling for customer fixed effects. These findings are all consistent with theories suggesting that people's should selves exert more influence over their choices the further in the future outcomes will be experienced.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
has quality variations, reducing consumption. Five independent growers formed a cooperative to provide quality control and a brand name—Ripe 'N Ready—that enabled retailers to differentiate their stores and producers to differentiate the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
study of a sponsorship collaboration between a global financial institution (UBS) and a multi-site museum (Guggenheim) evaluates critical aspects of resource integration between the partners with implications for the theory and practice... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
create value by introducing visual transparency between consumers and producers. Although operational transparency has been shown to improve consumer perceptions of service value, existing theory posits that increased contact between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
the point of the book was to explain where this extraordinary system came from and to explain it component by component so that readers could understand the financial system as the product of history, and as one of the key factors in... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the U.K. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
'69) — who was known as Arthur S. Warshaw while at HBS and is now an American Sikh — has helped weave spirituality into the very fiber of Khalsa International Industries, a Sikh-founded, $100-million group of service and product companies... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
Conservative? Towards a Theory of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors:Abigail McIntosh Allen and Karthik Ramanna Abstract We investigate the role of standard setters in a standard setting. In particular, we examine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
decompose the productivity decrease that arises from taxation, we estimate that 40% is due to the lower net wage and the remaining 60% to tax aversion. This tax aversion affects labor supply more on the extensive margin (working less)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
historically, only government-subsidized products have achieved widespread adoption. A recent contractual innovation, which links insurance payouts to realized weather rather than farmer indemnity, has spurred substantial research in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne