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- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
there’s innovation that doesn’t happen,” says Gompers. “This is true [for] women, its true for underrepresented minorities, and it’s true for the formerly incarcerated as well.” Gompers says the case poses... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
negative impact on innovation at targeted firms: firms substantially reduce their innovative activity after settling with NPEs (or losing to them in court). Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
balanced scorecard, for example. But in international development we've seen an increasing critique of those methods on the basis that sometimes they are too linear and don't capture the complex, total... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
says, "will kill us financially and medically it will ruin our economy, deny us the health care services we need, and undermine the important genomic research that can fundamentally improve the practice... View Details
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
Jacoline Loewen pointed out that "Asking the customer's opinion is great for quality control check(s), but for creative strategy get beyond the client." Gerald Nanninga commented that "consumers are very good at explaining frustrations... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
spending on groceries. Controlling for customer-fixed effects and other relevant variables, we find that grocery spending increases by $1.59 with the use of a $10-off coupon. In addition, even though the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
cubicles—is often treated as an afterthought at immature IT organizations, says HBS professor Robert Austin. Yet this attitude is unwise, because the sooner bugs are caught, the easier and cheaper they are to correct. But who is best... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
disadvantageous position to compete with the two superpowers. However, it did compete, and the question is why. The existing historiography on the Sino-Soviet split focuses on Mao's desire for leadership of the international communist... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
that exists at the top of organizational hierarchies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49601 forthcoming Management Science Financing Risk and Innovation By: Nanda, Ramana,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
gap discourages research effort directed towards clean technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
when an independent director is more likely to dissent and who is more likely to dissent. Controlling for firm and board characteristics, we find that dissent is significantly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
rungs to catch up with dirty technology and because this gap discourages research effort directed towards clean technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
much better. In this article, professor and Balanced Scorecard guru Robert S. Kaplan introduces BSC Customer Profitability Metrics. From Balanced Scorecard Report. Marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
excitement and uncertainty of entrepreneurial life. The case also details the innovative marketing the company created to expand its customer base, the means it devised to cultivate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
successful agreement. Following Robert Putnam's (1988) two-level games schema, I characterize such "behind the table," or "Level II," barriers more broadly, offer several innovative examples of how each side can help... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
solutions to known problems, the founding team formed an emergent goal that presented an innovative solution to a new problem and became the basis of the new company's business model. We analyze this process... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in terms of industry, size, age, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
such as stable value funds, balanced funds, and life-cycle (or target date) funds. We find that life-cycle funds designed to match the risk tolerance and investment horizon of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Oasys Water: Balancing Strategic Partnerships & Financing Decisions Oasys Water had developed a proprietary water treatment technology based on an innovative forward osmosis process that could remove... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
infringement and support small inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out firms that, absent NPEs, would produce... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel