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- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
companies can set the right incentives and time horizons for investments and create a robust innovation infrastructure in the process. Buy the book: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
institutional entrepreneurship. Finally, the paper highlights future directions for research on this topic. Researchers are encouraged to use this paper to build sophisticated, targeted research designs that will add value to the growing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
Policy Experiment By: Alfaro, Laura, Anusha Chari, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Emerging-market governments adopted capital control taxes to manage the massive surge in foreign capital inflows in the aftermath of the global financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
2003. He is now active mentoring young entrepreneurs, investing in companies, and painting. The interview is part of the Creating Emerging Markets series sponsored by the HBS Business History Initiative, in which business leaders in... View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
one disagrees with the fact that the United States faces a severe fiscal challenge. Anger with S&P, therefore, is much like anger directed toward a referee who has made a difficult call—frustration with the result expressed as... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
political, economic and cultural purposes," Abdelal writes. "It is the nation connected to a project." Nationalism can propel economic policy in four ways. It sets a direction for policy, partly in response to a perceived... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
Effects, and Investment Strategy Willy ShihHarvard Business School Note 611-082 This technical note discusses scale economies and direct and indirect network effects in the context of building better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
edge of innovation, and they can boost their reputations by supplying well-known U.S. firms. The market size of the U.S makes it an important target but, in addition, foreign companies often feel they have to crack the U.S. market in... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
suggested that the benefit of separating the new venture had to do with securing resources for it. However, our research found that parent organizations invested roughly the same amount in integrated ventures as they did in independent... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
high-reliability organizations give rise to a distinctive way of thinking—workers direct attention at failure (rather than success) and are concerned with reliability (rather than efficiency)—leading to better outcomes. The concept of... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
difficult-to-quantify constructs like meaning-making seem less useful as an analytical construct. Put more crudely, return on investment makes for a more tractable dependent variable than meaning. Q: How do you think leadership matters to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
strategies to the unique contexts of emerging markets—and instill in their organizations an organizational openness to experiments. Zain's One Network and Microsoft's FonePlus are only two examples of successful emerging market experiments. Position Your Business as a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
These regions experienced long eras of foreign domination, dealt with extensive state intervention, faced institutional inefficiencies, and experienced extended turbulence. This article suggests that this context drove different business... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Working PapersIntra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We use a new firm-level data set that establishes the location,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
reflect a lower burden of crime, but rather a higher investment in crime avoidance. Moreover, protection activities by one group can displace crime onto another group. We take advantage of a dramatic increase in crime rates in Argentina... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
Business School Case 316-177 The Priceline Group: Booking a Place for the Future The chairman of the Priceline Group is considering the actions he must take to confront an evolving external environment, new direct competition,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17
Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency (revised) Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract Katz and Shapiro (1985) study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and direct... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007
the impact of inventory on sales and the interrelationship between gross margin and inventory. We also estimate the effects of exogenous explanatory variables such as store growth, proportion of new inventory, capital investment per... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
sales people. The article discusses reasons for that gap, the implications, and an example of what one leadership team did to link better its business strategy with sales investments and behaviors. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
century, the main objective of most risk management policies—from limited liability to bankruptcy law to a fixed exchange rate—was to encourage trade and investment and thus to facilitate economic growth by making investors and traders... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard