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  • 22 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 22

and exploration in terms of innovation streams—incremental innovation in existing products as well as architectural and/or discontinuous innovation. Based on in-depth, longitudinal data from 13 business units and 22 innovations, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Aug 2024
  • Book

Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

and, at the time, Jawbone UP, and the emergence of smartwatches, especially the Apple Watch, which offered broader functionalities. Acknowledging that hardware innovation was not its strength, Nike discontinued the FuelBand in 2014 to... View Details
Keywords: by Feng Zhu; Technology; Information Technology
  • 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

of them can account for a quantitatively relevant fraction of our results. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54796 Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

“ancient quest to measure.” Specific discontinuities in the practice of information science are identified that, the paper argues, have large consequences for the social order. The infrastructure that runs on big data is described as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

that UGC on platforms ranging from Yelp to Facebook has a large causal impact on economic and social outcomes ranging from restaurant decisions to voting behavior. These findings often leverage unique data sets and methods ranging from regression View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

linguistic, value)-are core to explaining field re-emergence. Although new or discontinuous technologies tend to displace older ones, legacy technologies that are seemingly "dead" can re-emerge, thrive, and even co-exist with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7

constituency level data for elections to India's state assemblies and a regression discontinuity design. On average, we find that female incumbents are more likely than male incumbents to re-contest but that there is a decline in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

businesses. Two years after launch, M-Pesa had only 1.2 million registered users. Vodacom eventually decided to discontinue the service in 2013 and relaunch with a new banking partner and new model in 2014, with a focus on serving... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

process culminated in competitive and consumer differentiation that ushered in innovation reinvestment and a period of substantive and sustained demand growth for mechanical watches. This paper contributes to research on technology cycles, cognition, and incumbent... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

finally combine. That will mark the real discontinuity between the economy of the twentieth century and that of the twenty-first. Q: You have drawn on other fields in addition to business, such as history, science, even contemporary... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

transformational kind of leadership — deeper into the organization, and they will be inventing other kinds of leadership to stay on top of this incredibly fast-moving, discontinuous world that Gary describes. Q: Who is this course for?... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

existing products as well as exploring into architectural and/or discontinuous innovation. Based on in-depth, longitudinal data on 13 business units and 22 innovations, we investigate the consequences of organization design choices on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

news alters a firm's own project discontinuation decisions. The findings reveal that technological learning dominates competition effects. Firms are most sensitive to competitor failure news coming from within the same market and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

Kittyhawk team had layered in components and features that inflated the price point well beyond $50, and Kittyhawk's strategic flexibility was constrained by its growing losses. Epilogue In the end, HP's Kittyhawk was discontinued and... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

also increase slightly. Our panel results are supported by a broadband regression discontinuity analysis. Politics does not seem to play a role in allocating funding. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406118 Buddy March Harvard Business School Case 407-128 Entrepreneurial general manager (GM) ignores specific directives from his boss (GVP) to discontinue a new venture that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

elected as a state legislator encourages the subsequent political participation of women, using a regression discontinuity design on constituency level data from India. We find that female incumbents are more likely than male incumbents... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

success, market reaction, and merger waves. Offer prices are biased towards the 52-week high, a highly salient but largely irrelevant past price, and the modal offer price is exactly that reference price. An offer's probability of acceptance View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

difference-in-differences, matching estimations, and regression discontinuity designs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50014 Experimental Evidence of Pooling Outcomes Under Information Asymmetry By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Prior stock price peaks of targets affect several aspects of merger and acquisition activity. Offer prices are biased toward recent peak prices although they are economically unremarkable. An offer's probability of acceptance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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