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- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
of Public Economics What Makes Annuitization More Appealing?" By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Stephen P. Zeldes Abstract—We conduct and analyze two large surveys of hypothetical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle model with earnings, lifespan, investment return, and future policy uncertainty. It then measures the excess burden... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Putting the Project Puzzle Together
critical. Q: Most large organizations manage their portfolios as a collection of projects, rather than as an integrated portfolio. Yet, as you write, the practice of using investment portfolio management techniques to manage project... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
hindered or helped by the responsiveness of government regulators like central banks. Similarly, in some countries, the financial sector is dominated by large family-owned banks that can become a barrier to market access. Many emerging... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
presented by the rise of the man-of-action hero. Salls: What is the man-of-action hero, and why is this manhood ideal so important in American culture? You say the man-of-action hero is a synthesis of two other popular models of American... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 29 Sep 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property
file-sharing remains largely unexplored in academic research. Are There Established Practices For Preventing Ip Theft In Other Countries? Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood Hollywood's earnings in India have View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
Richard Branson, the British entrepreneur, corporate titan, and death-defying balloonist, touched down at HBS last fall to share his wit and wisdom with a large Burden Hall audience. Branson, founder and chairman of the Virgin Group, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
Press) In the past decade, as technological developments raced forward, large corporations with a history of scientific leadership like AT&T, IBM, and Xerox ironically found themselves struggling to keep up. Their problem, says HBS... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
including aging populations and medical technology. But an underlying and misunderstood source of health care’s escalating costs has been the inability of health care provider organizations (such as large academic medical centers) to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
for those who want to help them reinvent themselves. "We think about all these great large companies that have failed," said HBS professor Michael Roberto, who moderated the discussion. "But there are lots of great examples... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
presents researchers with the possibility of using large and new datasets related to text and image repositories. In this paper, we make a methodological contribution to strategy research by documenting a novel synthesis of two machine... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Josh Solera
At first glance, studying history at Duke wouldn’t seem a likely way to propel Josh Solera toward a business career. But Josh sees things differently. “History is a way of synthesizing large amounts of data,” he says. “That’s a great way... View Details
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
in conflict. Yangon was the only large city and was like a time capsule from the past. When we got to the hotel in Yangon, for the first breakfast, my wife and I got into a conversation with the waiter, a very bright, animated young man.... View Details
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Jackie Burgos
major to take. I heard that accounting was the language of business, so when I got a scholarship to Pace, which has a great accounting program, I went.” There, Jackie distinguished herself, not just by her achievements in business... View Details
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Jackie Burgos
major to take. I heard that accounting was the language of business, so when I got a scholarship to Pace, which has a great accounting program, I went.” There, Jackie distinguished herself, not just by her achievements in business... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016
Information Systems Research Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View By: Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu Abstract—The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
converging U.S. GAAP with IFRS, competition between the FASB and the IASB would allow GAAP to better respond to market forces. Patent Policy, Patent Pools, and the Accumulation of Claims in Sequential Innovation Authors:Gastón Llanes and Stefano Trento Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
unreported numbers said. It’s startling to find that managers are not even neutral; they’re somewhat negative.” RESEARCHERS CREATE FORECASTING MODEL To test their ideas, the researchers studied 50 big-box retailers in the United States,... View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
have the money in their account in just days, whereas in the conventional banking model small business owners may not be approved for several weeks. New Ways To Make Loan Decisions By and large, emerging online alternative lenders make... View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Hooper, MBA 2001 Nigel Killick, MBA 2001 Fabien Mousseau, MBA 2001 Reallyenglish.com is an on-line English language teaching company, with offices in Japan and London. The business model is to offer students... View Details