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- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
product development, customer support, and “Eastern Labs”—a new office enclosed by glass walls and located in the middle of Eastern's main lobby. Rivers provides Labs with $4 million annually—1% of gross revenues—to develop new banking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
each complementing the other. Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Ignacio Franceschelli Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (forthcoming) Abstract : We construct measures of the extent to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
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
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
interviews. Q: What are the main findings from the research reported in the book, and what do they tell us about economic development and globalization in developing countries in general? A: I think the book demonstrates both the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
sent P&G's main competitor in oral care, Colgate Palmolive Co., scrambling because several patents protected the strips, making it difficult for Colgate to copy the invention. But in September 2002, the tables turned. Colgate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice, along with suggestions for further reading. The main goal of any international strategy should be to manage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
In a perfect world, scientists share problems and work together on solutions for the good of society. In the real world, however, that's usually not the case. The main obstacles: competition for publication and intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
information that experts provide consists of cold, hard facts and not panaceas to placate a frightened public. In addition, having experts as the main face of the country’s communications, offering sound advice on “what to do” and “what... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
main organizations. They initially integrate with their corporate parents to ensure resource flows, but then differentiate themselves to develop their own strategic profile. We contribute to the ambidexterity literature by unpacking the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
has two main methodological innovations: First, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2010) to accommodate unobserved latent class heterogeneity with a computationally light two-step estimator. Second,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
process as well as attempting, in parallel, a strategic sale to create a competitive bidding process. Ak Gıda was cofounded in 1996 by the Ulker and Topbas families as a result of a joint vertical integration strategy: Ulker family, owners of Yıldiz Holding, would... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
exported into global value chains. During the Great Reversal, the main challenges faced by MNEs were political. Firms needed to build political contacts with assertive host governments and attempt to strengthen their local identities,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
to examine the effects of team familiarity and variation in experience on multiple measures of performance for software development projects. In most cases, we do not find evidence of a significant main effect for variation in experience... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
Media.) Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-039.pdf From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America Authors:Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana Abstract As the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
take charge. Channel stewardship has two important outcomes. The primary (and obvious) purpose is to expand value for the steward's customers and bottom line. The main reason any partner would want to participate in a channel with an... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
their profitability is shrinking; their prices are becoming uncompetitive; and their main customer, a large regional research and teaching hospital, is threatening to seek alternative, more cost-effective, suppliers. The case addresses a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
European banking sector, what decision should Crédit Agricole take regarding Emporiki? Through the example of this European cross-border acquisition the case looks at the Greek banking system before and during the unprecedented Greek sovereign debt crisis; the efforts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
classes and visits to New York (where FashionStake is based). "The contest worked as a forcing mechanism for us," Gulati says. "Without the discipline of deadlines and deliverables we might have flamed out at the first hurdle." "For us, the View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
disproportionately affected by international financial integration. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-012.pdf Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
implications of such two-sided competition on the actions and source of profits of media firms. One main conclusion we reach is that media firms may charge higher content prices in a duopoly than in a monopoly. This happens because... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace