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- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
policy debate. Positive aggregate productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and market reallocation, whereby competition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
Excerpt Second, I wanted to demonstrate the relative importance of business compared to governments and other institutional actors in building global capitalism. In both the historical and economics literatures, firms are typically View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
to it." But common sense provided enough information to detect definite patterns. As the paper states, "Inventors with the last names Gupta or Desai are more likely to be Indian than they are to be Anglo-Saxon or Vietnamese." "You can open up a View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
and observations from academics, practitioners, and practical thinkers from around the world, this book demystifies the economic, social, and cultural effects of globalism and globalization and presents a balanced explanation of what is... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
explanation why markets with two-sided platforms are often characterized by incompatibility with one dominant player who may subsidize access to one side of the market. Specifically, we model competitive interaction between two platform... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
where the next left-field idea could be the next big thing. This book explores this culture of psychological safety and provides a blueprint for bringing it to life. The road is sometimes bumpy, but succinct and informative scenario-based View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
in the diabetic space, became MannKind’s marketing partner and helped launch Afrezza in February, 2015. Although the drug had a black box warning and required doctors to perform a lung test on patients,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
pirate—believe it or not, you can look him up—named Black Caesar, who was marauding across Biscayne Bay in the Caribbean and was an escaped slave who was rumored—legend had it that he docked his boat there. And here you have, maybe a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
Boveri (now ABB) and Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis) in Switzerland; Degussa-Hüls in Germany; Bombardier in Canada; and Bendix, Bond International Gold, Carter Hawley Hale, Ecolab, General Cinema, Growth Fund of America, Harcourt General, the Schroder Bank, and The Stanley... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
company. But they should also be remembered as the pioneer of artistic black glass (1915); "carnival glass," iridized pressed glass, (1907); and "cased lustre ware," opaque and translucent glass spray-coated onto glass blanks (1910).... View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
evidence and data to look at clusters as agglomerations of actors and companies operating not just at the local level but across broader global networks. In doing so the historical perspective provides explanations lacking in the existing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Organizational Response to Environmental Demands: Opening the Black Box Authors:Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel Abstract This paper combines new and old institutionalism to explain enduring... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
explanations about the development of the United States’ Federal Reserve System, which was created in 1913 in direct response to the Panic of 1907; and an engaging and entertaining account of a fascinating period in financial and economic... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
soon, and recently new data had been discovered that indicated that a small subset of the population would be at risk for stroke, heart attack, or even death if they took PIavix. As a result, the FDA had added a black View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
targeting behavior. When individuals earn money for a charity, higher wages instead lead to lower effort with substantial targeting behavior. A reference-dependent theoretical framework suggests an explanation for this differential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
returning four days later. He didn’t reach Katahdin—his diary offers no explanation for the change of plans—but he would forever view the trip as his “emancipation.” Moore thrived on the freedom. A few years later, while attending... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
business idea. Now. Propped up on her elbows and staring at her laptop as ideas furiously dance in her head, she considers all possibilities. What about a monthly subscription box sent to a woman just before her period? Tampons.... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
have us go through that when there’s a substantial body of useful, practical literature, about how to go about competitive bidding. JH: Even so, Wilson graduated as a Baker Scholar, in the top 5 percent of his class. And with that MBA box... View Details