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- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
Companies also have to weigh the importance of protecting the primary versus the generative value of a product. The natural way to protect an idea is to patent it, but that mechanism is not always effective. Epilady invented a new way of... View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 14
cancer patients with a high risk of clinical progression and death. DiagnoFirst had applied for patents, in both the U.S. and EU, for the sequence of 40 genes, the new methodology for gene amplification, and the specific mechanics of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team
managed. We are continuing to work on this topic. Finally, we are working on a paper that examines whether higher-quality colleagues can act as a retention mechanism for knowledge workers. E-mail Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007
deployment of their technology abroad. The paper demonstrates that when firms want to exploit technologies abroad, multinational firm (MNC) activity and foreign direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial frictions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006
forecasting, despite a number of characteristics that make it a challenge to fit to a dynamic supply chain environment, to be effective in that context. We further show that the forecasting process, together with the supporting mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
or money in trying to acquire the item, they may continue to bid past their initially set limit. To quit before "winning" makes it difficult to self-justify initial investments in pursuit of the item. Competitive arousal—or the View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
accountabilities. This provides a mechanism for the board to set objectives and subsequently review its performance. The Balanced Scorecard strategy map provides a framework to illustrate how strategy links intangible assets and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
initiatives." As the research process progresses, outside factors continue to make their mark, including scientific advances licensed from academia and even product teams acquired and brought in from other firms. "All these," Chesbrough said, "are... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52652 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We study whether stock indexes can be a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5
markets. We find that introducing a signaling mechanism increases the welfare of workers and the number of matches, while the change in firm welfare is ambiguous. A signaling mechanism adds the most value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
if the ultimate enforcement mechanism seems so far-fetched? “By understanding why people make mistakes, it may help you creatively design an approach to resolve these disputes” Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Hong Luo looks at... View Details
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
organizational units that fail to interact in a meaningful way, or isolated units that are not integrated into the social fabric of the broader organization. And it can illustrate whether lateral coordinating mechanisms put into place by... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
allocation at a top-tier fund, they're going to go further down the food chain…so I think there's no equilibrating mechanism right now," Sahlman said. "Is that a problem?" "There's a lot of capital out there now... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
circumstances, including human purposes, evolved. While the invisible hand of the pricing mechanism can balance supply and demand on a global basis, or in subunits thereof, the visible hand of political authority is essential to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
permit the acquisition of valuable knowledge, additional mechanisms may be necessary to enable the subsequent application of that knowledge in a team setting. We hypothesize that team familiarity—prior experience working with team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007
alternative mechanisms by which private information about firms' R&D activities can be revealed to investors. I investigate the degree to which both mechanisms lead to the public revelation of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
was really surprising.” The finding is useful for employers because as DC plans continue to proliferate, companies face more of a responsibility to effectively educate their workforce, particularly older workers who may not have benefited from View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia
months, while the lifespan for other product models is a maximum of six months. "This makes it very important for the company to have highly efficient internal management and sales mechanisms to survive," he said. BBK's DVDs are... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
innovation, as well as its generative potency. Finally, implications for theory, practice, and future research are offered. April 2015 Institutions and Ideals: Philip Selznick's Legacy for Organizational Studies What's So Institutional about Leadership? Leadership... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
within markets: When sentiment is high, future returns are low on relatively difficult to arbitrage and difficult to value stocks. Private capital flows appear to be one mechanism by which sentiment spreads across markets and forms global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne