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  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

and the environment while still creating value for their shareholders. How to Become a Sustainable Company Authors: Robert G. Eccles, Kathleen Miller Perkins, and George Serafeim Publication: MIT Sloan Management Review 53, no. 4 (2012) Abstract Using field and survey... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice, however, such stability is rare, as the composition and structure of teams often changes over time or between projects. In this paper, we use detailed View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?

the same over time? Does it increase or decrease? A: Customer value changes over time, and in our data we find that the value is increasing over time. In general, we expect customer value to initially increase as the firm grows and later... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Web Services
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

  Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico By: Beshears, John Abstract—I use data on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to admit. Using a unique data set of 9,661 software contests, we provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2009
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

Chussil said, " the individual takes on a greater burden to think critically and decide wisely . When I feel myself drowning in data (or in fear of the lack of data), [I return to the question], What's the problem?" Will Harwood... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

direction and the internal data to understand its own strengths and weaknesses can be overly influenced by outside demands for metrics that may not always be relevant to its ultimate success. “Without understanding outcomes, you can't get... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 09 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

on its face. But often, this isn't the case. The data may tell you that something is happening, but not necessarily why. Those who make assumptions about why often miss the target. "Oftentimes, people... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our paper makes two contributions. First, we use newly constructed bibliometric data to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

firms. However, once a lawsuit-triggering event like an accounting restatement, missing management guidance, or a sharp stock price decline occurs, there is no difference in the litigation rates between a foreign and comparable U.S. firm.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

but that makes firms vulnerable to innovative upstarts over the long haul. Would this trend also hold true for companies engaging in business processs innovation? McElheran wondered—a question not much studied by researchers. To find out, she drew on 1999 US Census... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 22 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

Jones Industrial Average soared amid a “bonkers” real estate market. Professionals have been looking around, and recruiters have data and stories to grab even the most contented employee’s attention. "You could have a two-hour meeting in... View Details
Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

underlying reasons for their limited success. Our analysis of American Hospital Association (AHA) data on hospital-based ACOs found that many organizations do not have the capability to track and share performance metrics, including... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

albums—and because it is among the sectors most strongly affected by digital technology. So I reached out to Nielsen SoundScan, the company that tracks recorded-music sales in North America, to obtain data for a random sample of over 200... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 13 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action

(Illustration: Dave Cutler) After a decade of extraordinary growth, Nike faced slowing sales in the early 1980s because the normally market-wise company had missed a major turn in the road. Reebok had introduced softer and more... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
  • 13 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

discrete industries. First, there's in vitro fertilization, probably the most obvious piece. This is a service industry, like medicine in general, which caters to infertile couples. Then there are what I call the component industries, which provide the View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

Based on dialogue with all stakeholders, create an information gap analysis, develop and implement necessary methodologies for creating missing content, and consult with the board to determine an "optimal level of transparency." The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

or it’s a bad air-quality day and my child really shouldn’t be outdoors, I’m going to keep them home from school. As a normal working adult, I don’t have money to hire a service, so I’m going to miss a day of work. Fifty percent of women... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 21 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

new ones by going for walks on the same route every day or designating certain nights to playing games. Preliminary data from a new study by Norton and HBS doctoral candidate Ximena Garcia-Rada shows more than half of parents have... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

  Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In much of the developing world,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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