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  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

questions in business history center around entrepreneurship.” A succession of other "firsts" followed, including major studies of the globalization of services whilst most of the literature remained focused on manufacturing,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

users or securing their exclusive affiliation--are costly and risky. Describes less costly staged strategies for building two-sided platforms. With the "vendor to two-sided platform" strategy, a firm starts as a vendor selling products or View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Kiatpongsan%20Norton%20PPS_31f17547-5033-401c-8ed2-ccc9b6a2b433.pdf   Working Papers Bitcoin By: Böhme, Rainer, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman, and Tyler Moore Abstract—Bitcoin is an online View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3

organizations use incident-reporting systems to encourage employees to communicate about the operational problems they witness. Using data on nearly 7,500 reported incidents, we find that information campaigns encouraging process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

government relations is part of the inner circle. You can look at Turkcell and see it as a typical emerging-market story. Government intervention is everywhere. Regulators even set prices, service by service. The competition is tightly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

Corporate Performance By: Brochet, Francois, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using conference call transcripts to measure the time horizon that senior executives emphasize when they communicate with investors, we develop a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

social networking, which both change and enhance existing service offerings. Another way that Weber Shandwick is adapting to new technologies is through an Internet-based platform called WeberWorks (3.0) that fosters View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006

expertise of South African generic drug manufacturer Aspen Pharmacare are shown to be ameliorating misguided policy decisions by the South African government; communications campaigns, operational synergies, alternative distribution... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

borrowers communicating their debt forgiveness to other borrowers, who then more often strategically default on their own obligations. This strategic default contagion is economically large. When the lender doubles debt forgiveness, the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

bicycle sharing service to the city of Paris? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912022-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912023-PDF-ENG Gene Patents (B) Richard G. Hamermesh and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

and to sell media time. A second objective of the case is to understand the implications of social TV viewing, the audience engagement that results when people watch television with a smartphone or tablet in hand, participating in a virtual View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

buyer characteristics. Consider the experiences of condo developers targeting retirees who wanted to downsize their homes. Sales were weak until the developers realized their business was not construction but transitioning lives. Instead of adding more features to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

characteristics and director networks are also associated with deal generation. We find that a company that has a director who has had LBO experience through prior board service is approximately 40% more likely to receive a private equity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

point out in our book, the provider group doesn't create any value. Value is not created by breadth of services but excellence in particular medical conditions. Zero-sum competition was a natural evolution given the historical roots of... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

accountability and effectiveness today? What should it do about them? With a detailed description of the Bank's challenges of democratic accountability, its constraints, and recommendations for the future, HBS professor Alnoor Ebrahim testified before the Committee on... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

products or services look beyond their self-interest and work to collectively build the institutional infrastructure, they—and society as a whole—are more likely to prosper. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

each branch of the armed services must make. Army and Marine Corps officers operate in an inherently uncertain environment. They define the mission but then give subordinates the flexibility to adjust to realities on the ground. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

heterogeneous technology diffusion from immigrant communities in the United States for identification. The latter instruments are developed by combining panel variation on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

Risk Authors: Francois Brochet, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract Using conference call transcripts to measure the time horizon that senior executives emphasize when they communicate with investors, we explore the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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