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  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-offshoring-and-global-employment-9780199765904;jsessionid=ED4AD048AB53EE6A416F900D0D5B42AE?cc=us&lang=en& 2013 pub Market Imperfections and Sustainable Competitive... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

business is simplistic, said Reinhardt. Companies always operate based on imperfect information about their competitive arena. To succeed as a viable concern with an environmental conscience, "you have... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP protection by formally modeling the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

PART 3: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Getting on the JD/MBA Path

requirements and need the same quality of experiences. There is a wealth of information out there about the application process. I don’t have many golden nuggets to add, except to say that by thinking long and hard about why you’re... View Details
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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

Understand the science, economic impact, and policy implications of climate change Identify and communicate the risks and opportunities posed by climate change across industries Leverage insights from real-world examples to inform future... View Details
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

but this article shows it has never been true historically. Using longitudinal data on individual firms from the nineteenth century onwards, it reveals evidence of how entrepreneurs and firms with multinational activity faced by market View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Profile

Casey Gerald

friends, they’ve really become family. The intellectual element—I don’t want to call it the academic element because I spent far more time talking to professors than I did reading cases—was being faced with a situation or a challenge that you have little or no prior... View Details
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

economic trends a central economic activity and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2016
  • Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

invent a product, a large company can’t just swoop in and steal it and dare the little guy to fight it. NPEs claim they are protecting these little guys. Opponents, however, say they are exploiting imperfections in the legal system. Cohen... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

average, use unverifiable discretion to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The New CEO’s Wrong Message

surprises for new CEOs arise from time and knowledge limitations—there is so much to do in complex new areas, with imperfect information and never enough time. Others stem from unexpected and unfamiliar new... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria
  • 07 May 2018
  • News

What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries

I mean, one of the things I really admire a lot about the Africans, they are the most forgiving continent around, because I think they understand that they're imperfect and everybody's imperfect. And when you compare to societies, let's... View Details
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

look at how companies could more effectively leverage structured, randomized experiments to inform decision-making. His goal: Enable C-suite leaders to avoid the blind spots and blunders that can occur when making decisions based on data... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-085.pdf Self-Regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature Authors:Andrew King and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Scholars of management have long considered how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

short-term profits and returns to shareholders at the expense of worker safety and health, the environment, and society in general. In this article, I argue that a very different logic informs the practices of most high-performing and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

networks historically provided (e.g., information about potential workers, monitoring, and reputation foundations). Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Ghani_Kerr_Stanton_MSCI_OdeskDiaspora-8-26-13.pdf September 2013... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

  Working PapersThe CHAT Dataset Authors:Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15319, September 2009 Abstract This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an unbalanced panel dataset with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

amount of waste generated to improve the efficiency of the by-product process. In addition to the managerial implications, this analysis can inform policy as we show that increasing disposal cost decreases the size of the primary market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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replaced? We observe how both successes and failures have common antecedents. We look at the journeys of people who have succeeded because of the way they handled their failures. We will discuss the importance of exercising judgment and making consequential decisions,... View Details