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  • 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

relationship formation based on the characteristics of 'settings', or the places and times where actors meet. We argue that bridging relations form when organizations participate in two types of settings: unusually popular or fashionable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

to clarify the characteristics of successful investment and financing decisions," says Sahlman, who has taught the course for the past eleven years. "The goal in the course," he adds, "is to provide students with an accelerated dose of... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade

complex scents, both of which contrast with the Asian preference for light scents.” For an industry which looks global, it has some decidedly local characteristics . World War I helped launch the beauty revolution. In close quarters, soap... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues

Donham, the School's Dean from 1919 to 1942, often championed this topic in early Bulletins, including in this excerpt from his 1927 campus dedication speech: "Especially it is necessary," Donham stated, "that we fix for business the foundation stones of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

1284. Silicon Fen shares many characteristics with Silicon Valley (a leading research university, a large pool of skilled workers, a robust startup environment, and the presence of leading high technology firms), but it also has a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

cognitive, normative, or regulative mainstays of an organizational field. Institutional innovation, like all innovation, is both novel and useful but differs in that it is also legitimate, credible, and appropriate. Legitimacy is hinged to four View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

voice for the early spread of public primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be important in the context of BRIC, but we also outline how other factors such as factor endowments, colonialism, serfdom, and,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be important in the context of BRIC, but we also outline how other factors such as factor endowments, colonialism, serfdom, and, especially, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

sustainability" companies-exhibit fundamentally different characteristics from a matched sample of firms that adopted almost none of these policies- termed "low sustainability" companies. In particular, we find that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

Aires exploiting a natural experiment that induced an allocation of property rights that is exogenous to the characteristics of the squatters. There are significant differences in the beliefs that squatters with and without land titles... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

addition to hurting performance, such workers can generate enormous regulatory and legal liabilities for the firm. We explore a large novel dataset of over 50,000 workers across 11 different firms to document a variety of aspects of workers’ View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

characteristics also significantly affect the share premium in teams that split the equity unequally. Third, we show that equal splitting is associated with lower pre-money valuations in first financing rounds. Further econometric tests... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

sales, profitability, and assets. Here we analyze firm characteristics shown by industry before and after liberalization and investigate how industrial concentration, the number, and size of firms of the ownership type evolved between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

organizational theory, less explored is how these effects may depend on other external environmental factors. We focus on how policy is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to understand the growth of banking in the U.S., 1896-1978. Three View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

The Cost of Friendship By: Gompers, Paul A., Vladimir Mukharlyamov, and Yuhai Xuan Abstract—We investigate how personal characteristics affect people's desire to collaborate and whether this attraction enhances or detracts from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

data, 3. drives costs to transactions and orders using specific characteristics of particular orders, 4. can be run monthly to capture the economics of the most recent operations, 5. provides visibility to process efficiencies and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace