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- 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016
evidence. NPEs on average behave as "patent trolls." Indeed, NPEs hold and frequently litigate patents that are likely to be at least partially invalidated; moreover, NPEs target cash irrespective of its relation to alleged infringement. Cash-targeting is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings International Data on Measuring Management Practices By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We examine methods used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered What are the keys to monetizing IP? How should I think about file-sharing and copyright protection? Are... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
cases many-to-many matching markets and buyer/seller markets with heterogeneous and indivisible goods. In our setting, substitutable preferences are sufficient to guarantee the existence of stable outcomes;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 1996 (Revised May 1997)
- Case
Colliers International Property Consultants, Inc.: Managing a Virtual Organization
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In less than 20 years, the real estate firm Colliers International expanded into a federation of 180 offices with close to 4,500 professionals in over 30 countries. Because Colliers expanded by signing up existing firms strong in their local markets, its leaders had to... View Details
Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Globalized Firms and Management; Management Practices and Processes; Service Operations; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Budgets and Budgeting; Real Estate Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Colliers International Property Consultants, Inc.: Managing a Virtual Organization." Harvard Business School Case 396-080, May 1996. (Revised May 1997.)
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
sustaining an innovative organization? A new book written with three coauthors attempts to answer the question of why some companies, such as Pixar, are able to invent continuously, while others aren't. “Conventional leadership won't get you to innovation” The book,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
differences-revealing the business strategies and practices they pioneered while building their firms. David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano have studied these three leaders and their companies for more than 30 years, while teaching... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
How can you negotiate when the rules suddenly change, and no one knows whether your particular market is headed up or down? Regrouping from the cancellation of the 2004-2005 season due to failed labor negotiations, National Hockey League... View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
537-569 Abstract The deferred acceptance algorithm proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962) has had a profound influence on market design, both directly, by being adapted into practical matching mechanisms, and,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
Organizations and Markets Group and Deborah Kolb, a professor at the Simmons College Graduate School of Management, discussed the topic at the Women Enriching Business panel "Women Negotiating in the New Millenium." "The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
of leader power on team performance. Three studies find consistent support for this argument. The implications for theory and practice are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-087.pdf Cases & Course... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
2018 Independently published Unlocked: Keys to Improve Your Thinking By: Zaltman, Gerald Abstract—What’s the best way to change your life? Change how you think, says marketing guru Gerald Zaltman. While most of us are accustomed to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
literature. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-058.pdf Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout? Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel Abstract Since the dawn of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
found the whole thing perplexing. “We show that people are prone to sharing more information in the very context in which it's more dangerous to share.” "I didn't understand why people were putting all this information out there," says John, now an assistant professor... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
(Financial Times/Prentice Hall 2000). Edited by Subir Chowdhury, a consultant and author specializing in quality management, the book pulls together practical and accessible essays by twenty-six leading-edge academics and business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
One of the greatest challenges for the values-centered culture is to produce top performance and succeed in the market against "win at any cost" competitors. Values are only one part of an organization's culture; the other half... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
Business School Case 707-474 In 2006, newspaper firms in developed markets were severely threatened on three fronts: the growth of online news, online classified advertising, and free newspapers. Schibsted, however, had managed to cope... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community. Divided into 13 areas of focus, the book's contributors explore the metrics you need to run your startup, discuss lean prototyping techniques for hardware, identify costly outsourcing mistakes,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all,... View Details