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  • 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

backlogs and delays in numerous Patent and Trademarks Offices, and litigation over IP rights is expensive with an uncertain outcome. Moreover, local governments can succeed in transferring value to local firms and influencing global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

desire to signal to others. We present a field experiment where participants could choose to give up money if they did not follow through with an action. If their commitment choice was made public rather than kept private, we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

are beyond the farmgate. Embrapa's director of technology transfer must develop a plan to encourage adoption. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507019 Ethics: A Basic Framework Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

Mumbai, and an ongoing investigation of the transfer of land from agricultural to industrial use in China. Pirates On The Horizon There are two primary types of IP theft for copyright industries, which include movies, music, books, and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 26 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

organization would have to continue making money in the mature conventional-contacts business while simultaneously producing a stream of breakthroughs. In 1991, Bradley launched six formal development projects, each focused on a... View Details
Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

transactional planners responded to these differences in standards of judicial review; that these differences in judicial scrutiny created differences in outcomes for the minority shareholders; and that differences in outcomes created a social welfare loss, not just a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

it wants to spread the burden of taxes among its citizens in the least painful way, Weinzierl says. In other words, the government wants those for whom it is relatively easy to earn money to pay more in taxes than those for whom it is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

Association for Consumer Research The Functional Alibi By: Keinan, Anat, Ran Kivetz, and Oded Netzer Abstract—Spending money on hedonic luxuries often seems wasteful, irrational, and even immoral. We propose that adding a small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8

Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions. Politicians use frequent reassignments (transfers) across posts of varying importance to control bureaucrats. High-skilled bureaucrats face less frequent political transfers and lower... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

the same, leading some localities to significantly underperform others. Take geothermal power, for instance. New technologies often require the creation of legal definitions and categories in order to facilitate resource attainment, property rights, and View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

agent enjoys a concave benefit function from consuming water up to a satiation level. Noncooperative extraction is typically inefficient and any group of agents can gain if they agree on how to allocate water with monetary compensations. The paper describes which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

therefore no reliable way to transfer codified knowledge about methods and practices across the organization. Furthermore, while "red team reviews" —progress reviews conducted by NASA's most experienced managers—proved... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

uniqueness in the transferable utility (TU) case. Our main result is an extension of the definition and the existence and uniqueness theorems to stochastic games-discounted or undiscounted. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—We study the role of ethnic Chinese/Indian migrant inventors in transferring contextual knowledge across borders and the role of ethnic networks in further disseminating such knowledge. Using a unique... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

report beliefs closer to those that favor the workings of a free market. Examples include materialist and individualist beliefs (such as the belief that money is important for happiness or the belief that one can be successful without the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

and technical assistance in the same period. We interpret this as supportive of the interpretation that technology transfers from the U.S. to Western European countries and Japan were an important factor in driving growth in these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are connected to through their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

allowed to use both money transfers and threats to influence the decisions of a sequence of short-run players. We show that threats might be used credibly (even in arbitrarily short repeated games) by a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

the underlying basis for learning. We find that intraorganizational knowledge spill-ins transfer heuristics crafted by one unit under local conditions of reliability and validity to other units, where they are reinterpreted and... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

an integral component of the FAA's Traffic Flow Management (TFM) procedures. CDM allows the FAA to act as a mediator when managing TFM programs, transferring as much decision making as possible to the individual airlines. Although this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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