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Commencement 2013 Address | About
don’t know all the answers. That attitude is at the heart of the second personal characteristic I will ask you to consider today: ADAPTABILITY. During spring break, while many of you took the chance to travel, I too took a trip of my own... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007
first meta-analysis to study the impact of contextual characteristics on the way market orientation affects innovation consequences. The study finds that market orientation components positively affect innovation consequences but that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Instant Photography Is Launched | Baker Library
understood that these characteristics both democratized his photographic system and set it apart from all others. He argued that “an enormous number of people who lack talent or inclination of the early arts, do have a taste for and the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules and is uncorrelated to observable characteristics of the graduates. Given this assignment protocol, I find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
Talent Anita ElberseHarvard Business School Module Note 509-078 This module note examines issues concerning the management and marketing of talent in the creative industries. It describes the characteristics of the market for creative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn
different leaders and investors taking positions in high-risk, untested, brand-new high-tech firms. Morrell: That appetite for risk has remained a dominant characteristic of modern Silicon Valley, which has also developed a seeming lack... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
and Singapore grew in double digits at the beginning of their economic ascent but slowed, while Chile, Ireland, and South Korea didn't appear on the double-digit chart at all.) In the report Werker identified shared characteristics of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008
of two sequentially rented movies has more should and fewer want characteristics than the second film. Similarly, we also predict and find that should DVDs are held significantly longer than want DVDs within-customer. Finally, we find... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of creating babies? What will happen to our understanding of gender as medical advances enable individuals to transition from one set of sexual View Details
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
of the next generation? Likewise, how is the nature of the overall venture capital business changing today? What characteristics will mark the next generation of firms in the future? A: We believe that the venture capital industry today... View Details
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Field Course: Field Y: Projects in Business Management - Course Catalog
we reach the enrollment limit, preference will be given to students who took Field X. Fall 2021 Field X video link NOTE: This course has many characteristics of an Independent Project. Field Y counts toward the maximum number of IP... View Details
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The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog
the face of great uncertainty and massively imperfect information. How does one, often with relatively little experience, develop and exercise the judgement to make these decisions? This course will lead a discussion around The Founder Mindset and the View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Rogers In a self-indulgent moment in his late 20s, Gary Rogers (MBA ’68) bought a Porsche, a flashy status symbol befitting his standing at the time as a well-paid McKinsey consultant. It turned out to be the single most important purchase of his life. Five years... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
adapting to changing business conditions in an ongoing process. The emergence of important examples of never finished products is our primary reason for reconsidering the idea of closure; we therefore seek a framework that will also encompass this View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
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Power Trip
closer, you’ll see that the characteristics of CEOs really have changed. And many of the factors that determine access to power also have changed. Is the importance of higher education one example? If you think about what was important... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30
that takes into consideration a variety of customer specific characteristics to set optimal pricing for quotations. On "go live" day, the sales force "is up in arms" requesting that their "special customer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 10
unbundling is prevalent in many information industries. What is the effect of this unbundling on sales? And what bundle characteristics drive this effect? I empirically examine these questions in the context of the music industry, using... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
public companies to become targets for private equity-backed, take-private transactions. We consider the characteristics of 483 private equity-backed deals in the 2000-2007 period relative to public companies and find that, in addition to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
which both empirical characteristics of bias are observed in equilibrium. The key assumptions are that the information contained in the facts about a news event may not always be fully verifiable, and consumers have heterogeneous prior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
institutional characteristics remain the same even as individual people come and go. Pioneering institutions such as Harvard and Yale first began granting Ph.D.s in the mid-nineteenth century. As graduates of their doctoral programs... View Details