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- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
be an island apart from other firms. They must work with other firms to develop and exploit new technologies. Because this coordination process can be quite difficult, a variety of mechanisms have sprung up to facilitate this process. One... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
perspectives on how such networks of ties shape organizational behavior and performance outcomes, but they have paid little attention to the underlying mechanisms driving these effects. We propose reach, richness, and receptivity as three... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
mechanics of private banking and federal finance correct. Their models are therefore fatally flawed, so their predictions of doom (and inflation) should not be taken seriously.” Is JohnfrmCleveland right? Is modern monetary theory a fancy... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
not actual practices. This introduction and conclusion from a recent working paper, "Product and Labor Markets Globalization and Convergence of Corporate Governance: Evidence from Infosys and the Indian Software Industry," looks at corporate governance View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
look and see if there are opportunities for these investments,” Baik says. Summarizing the takeaways from the study, Srinivasan says, “The top-line revenue growth finding is very interesting in that it shows the mechanism for value... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
factory, and it was here that he became fascinated with mechanics and factory operations. With experience in the automobile industry, Georges was chosen to serve as an engineering officer in the French heavy artillery regiment during... View Details
- 24 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 24, 2007
little impact. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-065.pdf What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns Authors:Glenn Ellison, Edward L. Glaeser, and William Kerr Abstract Many industries are geographically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
market clearinghouses around the world, and have recently been implemented in school choice systems in Boston and New York City. In addition, the study of markets that have failed in ways that can be fixed with centralized mechanisms has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
performance, customer knowledge, internal processes, and learning and growth. The balanced scorecard is a practical management tool that marshals the value-added potential of people throughout the organization toward the achievement of long-term goals while providing a... View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
Tufts biomedical engineering professor who had discovered a way to employ silk to create stable vaccine storage. Schrader, with a mechanical engineering background and experience in product development, was intrigued, and joined up with... View Details
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
values that include community, curation, and convening. (Video by Amelia Kunhardt) About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: georgeclerk] Related Reading Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations Faber-Castell Doubles... View Details
- 18 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 18
(b) the organization's traditional approach, which focused primarily on skills training. To confirm causation and explore the mechanisms underlying the effects, we replicated the results in a laboratory experiment. We found that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
their parents owned a business when they were growing up. So we can see that there's an influencing mechanism at play here, and that there's a substitute for it as well." Follow The Money The distinctions are a bit more subtle when... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
We have seen interesting examples of activism in the United Kingdom and Japan recently. We suspect that activism will become relatively more important in these countries. In Japan especially, there are relatively few mechanisms in place... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
degrees in mechanical engineering and economics at Yale and then worked in tech investments at Morgan Stanley and as a project manager at Microsoft. But what Hopkins hoped to learn from the course taught by Shane Greenstein, the Martin... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
growing up in Bern, Switzerland, centered around a daily occurrence that is almost unimaginable in today's world: "You always came home for lunch," he says, recalling that the family would sit down to eat and listen to the news on the radio after his father, a View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
Founding Partner, Asset Management Company Download Johnson profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1928 Born, Quincy, Illinois 1950 Earns BS, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University 1962 Launches Draper... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
(2009). In our Adventures book, we experimented with mechanisms to facilitate active learning such as Jim Barton's "living whiteboard," whereby Barton kept a running list of ideas associated with a set of evolving principles of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
original product is subsidized by the virgin raw material cost because the original product "feeds" the by-product process. The values of these two costs/subsidies determine which operating regime is optimal. These two costs also serve as View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators Clay Christensen on "The Innovator's DNA." WORKING PAPERS Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Innovation is not a side business, says Lynda Applegate. Mechanisms of Technology Re-Emergence and... View Details
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