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  • 25 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

conduit between large institutional investors and fledgling firms. KB: And that in turn triggered more departures from established companies, more module designs, more experimentation, and more investment.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large cross-section of firms, we find that firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

railroad track in the U.S. South to standard gauge between May 31 and June 1, 1886 as a large-scale natural experiment in technology standards adoption that instantly integrated the South into the national transportation network. Using route-level freight traffic data,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

microeconomic level it features adoption of firms at the extensive and the intensive margin. Based on a data set of 15 technologies and 166 countries our estimations of the model yield four main findings: (1) there are large cross-country... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

experience high costs of capital that are only partly mitigated by the presence of venture capital, the evidence for high costs of R&D capital for large firms is mixed. Nevertheless, large established... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

existence of the hierarchical relationships among firms, and empirical work has focused on a single level of an industry or bilateral relationships. However, quantitative evidence on the deep hierarchy in large industrial sectors is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

its currency. Investors started to flee Asia, and the crisis rapidly spread to other countries. Central banks spent billions of dollars to try and defend their currencies, only to seek emergency bailouts from the International Monetary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

with enormous increases in wealth, as well as dramatic rises in the longevity, of humanity. Yet capitalism too has had its dark side. The book contains multiple examples of the amoral nature of global capitalism, from opium trading in nineteenth century China to the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Africa's Way

exports to the rest of the continent are up, and foreign investment has increased. Although progress is sometimes disappointing and many challenges are still ahead, South Africa is nonetheless seen by investors from all over the globe as... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

company. Three large shareholders, representing more than half of the outstanding shares, have agreed to tender their shares, and analysts who follow OTB are recommending that investors accept the offer. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

of businesses (e.g., product firms) and that every MSP entrepreneur and investor should carefully consider. In the last section I also discuss an important boundary condition: when is the MSP business model dominated by related-but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

take that into consideration. The bottom line is that you and I can talk about shareholder value not being the primary consideration—but if you're a large investor in a company, you might think that's the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

China currently has to Infosys and their 7,700-person company is a very interesting, and today, a largely unknown organization outside of China. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307093... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey By: Amel-Zadeh, Amir, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

like we got X donations, and we took care of 1,000 children at a cost of $80 a child, which is less than $120 a child spent by comparable organizations. Even that amount of reporting would be very useful, but it is not the norm. By and View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

http://hbr.org/2013/10/fergusons-formula/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Corporate Venturing By: Lerner, Josh Abstract—For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

this article, we argue that the beneficial effects of goal setting have been overstated and that systematic harm caused by goal setting has been largely ignored. We identify specific side effects associated with goal setting, including a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

solicitation of interest from sovereign wealth funds alongside traditional buyers. IPOs require a leap of faith from investors who have to bet on a new company. The new GM wants to be just that, a corporation intent on presenting itself... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

recommendations for firms with high CSR ratings. Using a large sample of publicly traded U.S. firms over 15 years, we confirm that in the early 1990s, analysts issue more pessimistic recommendations for firms with high CSR ratings.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

relationship: the best customer. Ironically, we find that firing the customer is often a case of blaming the victim: managers remain largely unaware of their own roles in creating the unprofitable customers they seek to shed. We reveal... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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