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  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

increased dramatically over the past decade. This forethought considers how they present global executives with thorny strategic and operational decisions, a piece of which has to do with China's entry into the FTA scene. Implicit Affect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

Raising the Level of Abstraction This technical note discusses abstraction as a way of generalizing a process or component for wider application. By hiding complexity inside a module, abstraction enables system designers to think at a higher level. This lowers View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

information that function as organizational, location, and personnel mobility barriers among quasi-autonomous units within a mega-agency or holding company have become an essential component of conflict policies. Subject to the protection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

Revolves around how to assess the market in the absence of hard data, and what would be the appropriate entry points. Illuminates how relationship-driven investments can be the foundation of a long-term investment strategy. Issues also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

to note, though, that this situation might benefit other countries that will welcome these workers, as for instance Canada has been saying. The US will get a smaller slice of the world economy pie if it turns it back to the world. But if we take a step back, putting... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

by the importance of the issue to the firm's business rather than the scale of the firm's prior lobbying efforts. These results support the existence of significant barriers to entry in the lobbying process.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

come first. The authors have identified six common barriers to change: (1) unclear direction on strategy and values, which often leads to conflicting priorities; (2) senior executives who don't work as a team and haven't committed to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

find significant evidence for the idea that barriers to entry induce persistence in lobbying. The existence of these costs is further confirmed in studying how firms responded to a particular policy change:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

firm's business rather than the scale of the firm's prior lobbying efforts. These results support the existence of significant barriers to entry in the lobbying process. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15

barriers to entry into the business. Besides enabling many Chinese branded manufacturers to enter the business, the grey market in components unleashed a complementary market of "Shanzhai" makers.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

best be applied. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54809 August 2018 Review of Industrial Organization The Impact of the Entry of Biosimilars: Evidence from Europe By: Scott Morton, Fiona M., Ariel Dora... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

in the last 150 years of U.S. business history. Barriers to Acting in Time on Energy, and Strategies for Overcoming Them Author:Max Bazerman Publication:Environment (in press). (Adaptation of a paper that originally appeared in K.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

advertising and design, but are also predominant in human-resource-intensive industries such as law, publishing, and consulting. Two other aspects of the industry made advertising an interesting context for research on new venture growth. First, it is an industry with... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

inefficiencies and capitalize on its innovation: strengthening antitrust and intellectual property rights enforcement; improving the legal infrastructure (e.g., producing more business law attorneys); lowering barriers to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

quality. We develop a structural model of product entry that illustrates how the regulator's standard setting rule affects a firm's product quality decision. Counterfactual simulations illustrate that ratcheting down was prevalent in this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

“linguistic expats” who live in their home country yet have to give up their native language in the workplace; “cultural expats” or native speakers of the lingua franca who struggle with organizational values that are more easily transmitted after language View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

results of additional tests are consistent with the risk of expropriation being a barrier to information disclosure about firm performance. In contrast, we find no evidence that disclosure of government payments is related to proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

diversifications are relatively unusual by Western standards, especially into technologies and markets that have relatively high entry barriers and where there is no deep-rooted national technological or... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006

received extraordinary support from its oversized Scientific Advisory Board; it had developed and secured a strong intellectual property portfolio that creates high barriers to entry for any new market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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