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  • 23 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules and is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?

"dilution" resulting from the introduction of an online MBA by a highly regarded onsite program, Joshua Doherty questioned the futures of top-tier schools that may lose their ability "to exploit the market power of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

advantage as local labor may be cheaper than similar technical talent in developed ecosystems. Countries like Singapore, Korea, Japan, Poland, Hungary, Estonia, Argentina, and South Africa have pockets of technical domains that are world class. Key to View Details
  • 03 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

that, in practice, many users don’t trust platforms to do the right thing, often thinking of them as biased actors. When social media companies publish their policies completely, bad actors could more easily circumvent and exploit their... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology
  • 27 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

and written about the biotech industry. "The competitive advantage of the U.S. economy lies in our great science institutions and university infrastructure," he says. "We need to learn better how to exploit that advantage... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Mead Treadwell

subsistence culture, or jeopardize international freedom of the seas. Global warming will eventually lead to significant increases in resource exploitation in the Arctic. When might that begin? Much of the economic development going on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Transportation
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

learning among lower-level employees. We exploit a field-research setting in which business units vary in the "tightness" with which they monitor employee decisions. We find that tighter monitoring gives rise to implicit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

consistency between instrument, research question, and context. Paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1838538   Working PapersGrowth through Heterogeneous Innovations Authors:Akcigit, Ufuk, and William R. Kerr Abstract We study how exploration versus View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

U.S.-listed foreign firm. Siegel collects evidence from a core sample of Mexican firms to show that some insiders from foreign-listed firms exploit this lax enforcement and run off with the firm's assets with impunity, while others learn... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 26 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 26, 2016

beneficent nonprofits exploit such regulatory leniency and exhibit higher mispricing. Drawing on organizational legitimacy theory, we argue that both regulators and beneficent nonprofits seek to protect their legitimacy with stakeholders,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14483 The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization Authors: Maria Guadalupe and Julie M. Wulf Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

entrepreneurs can exploit through the development of products and services specifically for inclusion in platforms, whether they are technological or marketing in nature? And do increasingly powerful platforms represent opportunities or... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

large set of countries and industries and exploit cross-section and time-series variation in import tariffs to examine the impact of prices on organizational choices. Our empirical results provide strong support for the predictions of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

high because website owners would need to recode data and content on their existing sites, agree on ontologies for structuring information, and develop new tools for querying Semantic Web data. The case profiles two start-ups with very different strategies for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

processes were already equipped for the challenge. Successful firms, by contrast, developed an explicit strategy for collaboration and made organizational changes to aid performance in these efforts. Ultimately, these actions allowed them to identify and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Feb 2012
  • Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

government blames business for acting irresponsibly. Much of the public blames the rich and elite for exploiting everyone else. Parties on each side work hard to amplify these accusations, but their efforts do nothing to help solve the... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Alumni Books

for bold moves, such as game-changing acquisitions. The Upside of Turbulence: Seizing Opportunity in an Uncertain World by Donald Sull (MBA ’92, DBA ’96) (HarperBusiness) Based on a decade of research into companies that have not only withstood turbulence but View Details
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

Abstract Using a sample of U.S. financial institutions, we exploit recent mandatory disclosures of financial instruments designated as fair value level 1, 2, and 3 to test whether greater information risk in financial instrument fair... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

strategy, which exploits tax variation across neighboring counties in different states. We find that taxes matter for innovation: higher personal and corporate income taxes negatively affect the quantity, quality, and location of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

exploit a quasi-natural experiment that holds constant the information event across firms, but varies the availability of a major news outlet in local markets. We find that firms subject to the threat of slanted coverage suppress the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne