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  • 31 May 2016
  • First Look

May 31, 2016

dominates the negative within-firm effect post IPO. We build a firm industry model with endogenous entry to quantify the importance of two competing selection mechanisms: an increasing share of R&D–intensive firms in the overall View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

Montgomery, the motivation for the pilot program was to improve the consumer reselling experience and to enhance "diamond equity." Somewhat paradoxically, consumers typically received very low prices when they tried to sell diamonds... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

scrutinizing the behavior of customers, suppliers, and competitors to identify new ways of doing things; (4) Experimenting: constructing interactive experiences and provoking unorthodox responses to see what insights emerge; and (5)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

Internalization of advertising services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated and varies widely across industries. To explain this variation, we draw on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

focus exclusively on estimates of expected payoffs, such as credit ratings, without considering the state of the economy in which default is likely to occur. Such investors are likely to be attracted to securities whose payoffs resemble... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Back in Business

‘Get down! Everybody get down! It's coming down!' " If any rationale underlay the nihilism and bloodlust of the WTC attacks, perhaps it was a belief that massive death and destruction in the heart of the world's most successful View Details
Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

  PublicationsThe Profits of Power: Commerce and Realpolitik in Eurasia Authors:Rawi Abdelal Publication:Review of International Political Economy (forthcoming) Abstract Although the energy trade is the single most important element of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

Emerita Deborah Kolb. "Despite bodies of knowledge about social institutions and social issues at the institutional and organizational levels, we know very little about how individual organizations experience and internalize gradual... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

introducing a generation to the practice of personal computing and laying the foundation for the Information Age. Gates and Jobs turned their curiosity about electronics into a multi-billion dollar industry. From early experiments like... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2023
  • News

Carbon's Second Act

Todd Brix's garage, where he was experimenting with how to turn carbon dioxide into something useful, he is starting small. But he notes that the concept is not exactly new. TB: Remarkably, this is what plants do day in and day out—for... View Details
  • 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14

conceptualization of products in this context, as reflected by product feature choices, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We study digital cameras introduced from 1991 to 2006 by firms from three prior industries. We hypothesize and find first, that prior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008

Society to Create Competitive Advantage Harvard Business School Case 307-076 Focuses on the experience of China's largest shirt manufacturer in managing various aspects of government relations in China. Identifies a wide variety of social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jul 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power

clean energy infrastructure industry. She is certain that training and re-training oil and gas industry workers for the new green economy can help drive voter support for climate change initiatives in Canada as well as the United States.... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

differently from the norm, too. Martha Lagace: What observations or experiences have driven you and your colleagues to study uncompromising leadership? How and why did you select the CEOs in your study? Michael Beer: My colleagues and I... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

The Transformers

entrepreneurs, Bradach and Tierney identified a problem in need of a solution. A booming economy during the 1990s, culminating in dot-com mania, generated a tremendous amount of new wealth that in turn ratcheted up the flow of charitable... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

experiment evoking a realistic context, that privacy concerns are indeed sensitive to the indirect consequences of information transmission. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-075.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

their conditions and possible treatments, often sharing their experiences with others in online communities. They are more inclined to question authority, and to raise issues with their doctors, care providers, and pharmacists. Some... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

$how Me the Money

(which are often legal and unavoidable), while maintaining a strong anti-corruption and anti-capture stance. HBS professor Lou Wells, with many years of experience working on mining agreements and as a negotiator in Africa and Indonesia,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

the way, this award-winning teacher and scholar draws on lessons from her research, her case studies on companies such as IKEA and Google, and her experiences in the classroom to weave stories of iconoclasm and nonconformity, of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

care. The paper contains an interview with Kaplan and Porter about their experiences with improving the measurement of health care outcomes and cost. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52117 forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne