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  • 22 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

limited time and limited knowledge. Therefore, it's very important for independent directors to be in the best positions they can be for developing their knowledge. Those internal pressures are real. Dealing with them should be one of the criteria by which you judge... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

destination in advance. Whether you're designing a new product, running a business in volatile conditions, operating a process that might encounter unforeseen inputs, or just trying to figure out what to do with your life, the journey... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

undermines creative thinking in tasks that draw on knowledge from multiple cultures. Three studies (a network survey and two experiments) found that ambient cultural disharmony decreased individuals' effectiveness at connecting ideas from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

dynamics may not converge, but if they do converge, then the limit strategy profiles constitute a subset of the Nash equilibria of the stage game. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-126.pdf Quantity vs. Quality: Exclusion by Platforms with Network... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

United States. In recent years, however, this centralized approach to the collection and analysis of adverse events through doctor-initiated case reports has been superseded by innovative, though episodic, pharmacoepidemiological studies of large databases that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

corporations have it in their power to become the world's most effective means for reducing poverty—George C. Lodge The success of a DaimlerChrysler project in Brazil's poverty-stricken northeast provides a particularly good example of... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

can use judo strategy to threaten an entrenched giant such as Microsoft, Microsoft's eventual success in the Internet "browser wars" shows that large, established companies can use these precepts effectively as well. According to the... View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

interest. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation, an agency that funds partnerships between universities and private companies. We assess the effect on participating firms' innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

cross-group network effects are neither necessary nor sufficient for an organization to be a MSP. Second, our definition emphasizes the difference between MSPs and alternative forms of intermediation such as "re-sellers," which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

One of the greatest challenges for the values-centered culture is to produce top performance and succeed in the market against "win at any cost" competitors. Values are only one part of an organization's culture; the other half is its View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

311-015 A faith-based organization from Taiwan has made considerable inroads in being able to operate effectively in mainland China. Is further expansion too risky? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309090 Lan Airlines in 2008: Connecting the World to Latin America Harvard Business School Case 709-410 Lan Airlines operates three distinct models: low-cost for domestic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

also more pronounced for the insurance firms for which regulatory capital requirements are more binding. The results hold both at issuance and for trading in the secondary market and are robust to a series of bond and issuer controls, including issuer fixed View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55344 Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility By: Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—In this paper, we study the effects of immigration... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-005.pdf The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality (revised) Author:Zeynep Ton Abstract Determining staffing levels is an important decision in retail operations. While... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

is associated with a 3.8% decline in new firm births. The effect is similar in size and significance when aggregating to the household level and when including a standard battery of covariates. The instrument is orthogonal to private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5

and threats to organizations and conclude with a research agenda that more fully accounts for the potential of community forms to be a creator (and a possible destroyer) of value for organizations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-131.pdf Network... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25

reduced the temptation governments face to intervene in the operation of large strategic enterprises. In the Leviathan as a minority shareholder mode, governments have small equity ownership in corporations and in general do not intervene... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

large economies for the 2001 to 2005 period. We investigate reasons why Chinese firms are more diversified than companies elsewhere. Design/methodology/approach—We collect data on the number of business segments in which publicly traded companies View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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