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  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

allowances, low bank share prices, and tight monetary policy. The bank-to-bond substitution can only be measured for firms with access to bond markets. However, we show that this substitution behavior has strong predictive power for bank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies of scope achieved by sharing common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

Intellectual Property Protection By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Joachim Henkel Abstract—Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

  Working PapersSilent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines, in a series of three studies, how people... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

Policy Author:David Moss Publication:Chap. 2 in Shared Responsibility, Shared Risk: Government, Markets and Social Policy in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Jacob Hacker and Ann O'Leary, 22-38. New York:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are connected to through their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

country's lead in innovation. “R&D is a critical part of the innovation process, but it is not the whole thing” In this excerpt, Pisano and Shih discuss the concept of the "industrial commons." In the past a commons—a shared farming... View Details
Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing
  • 14 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

nations must choose their own paths, for better or worse. He later expanded on his ideas in the following interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. As a student at Cornell, Abdelal said, he became fascinated by the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at traditional strategy-consulting firms,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

competitive interaction research to consider potential drawbacks and emphasize how competitive exposure, enabled by powerful intermediaries, can inhibit innovation. We develop a conceptualization of information leakage that occurs when firms are indirectly tied to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

hit to profit margins? A new working paper, To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts, sets out to help small businesses decide whether offering large discount vouchers is a profitable decision. HBS Working View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research. Positive productivity gains are often attributed to knowledge spillover from multinational to domestic firms. An alternative, less stressed explanation is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

rapidly replicate improved business processes throughout an organization, thereby not only increasing productivity but also market share and market value. We then empirically document a substantial increase in turbulence starting in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

values, it can also neglect the unit managers’ knowledge of which individuals would best match local conditions. We use difference-in-differences analyses to examine the effects of a switch from decentralized to centralized hiring at our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51040 forthcoming American Journal of Health Promotion The Effect of Cost Sharing on an Employee Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Trial By: John, Leslie K., Andrea Troxel,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

Dennis A. Yao Abstract—This article examines how antitrust law and policy can benefit from ideas developed in the academic strategy field. Because accurate assessment and prediction of the effects of firm conduct depend in part on understanding individual firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

excitement generated by the public source case made Koehn's team even more committed to filling in the gaps with personal feedback from Harpo management and, ideally, from Winfrey herself. Finally, events began to move very fast. The breakthrough came after Koehn View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

finance value different sets of skills: innovating in S&E calls for in-depth knowledge and/or interest in a specific subject area, whereas finance tends to value a combination of general analytic skills and social skills over academic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

wills to a search for fairness principles. Fisher did not create knowledge of the deductive, experimental kind most common in social science research. Yet Roger and his colleagues developed frameworks of aphorisms that, on average,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

entrepreneurial California agricultural biotech company seeking to earn carbon credits by modifying commodity crops for use in China and India. Eric Rey, Arcadia's CEO, faced a strategic inflection point in early September 2008. The company had a plan to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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