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  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are no longer adequate to serve as the primary unit of analysis. Over the years, systems of distributed innovation-so-called business ecosystems-have become... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

Financial performance is the result of operating performance. Operating performance includes all the things that a company must do to win the competitive battle in its industry to attract, retain, and profitably serve customers. It varies... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
  • 23 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 23

relevant for industries characterized by product proliferation and horizontal differentiation. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/banand/matchmaker2011published.pdf Accelerating the Adoption of Integrated Reporting Authors:Robert... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that the ratings are related to enforcement and monitoring, country and industry corruption risk,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2016
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June 7, 2016

data are often voluminous and unstructured, presenting analytical challenges for traditional tools that were designed for well-structured, quantitative data. We adapt methods from natural language processing and machine learning to illustrate how the hotel View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

given that product architecture has been shown to be an important predictor of, among other things: product performance, product variety, process flexibility, and future industry evolution. We explore this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

to other firms than non-star analysts. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13633 The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution: Evidence from the Software Industry Authors:Alan MacCormack, John... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

are less responsive to changes in investment opportunities, especially in industries in which stock prices are most sensitive to earnings news. These findings are consistent with the notion that short-termist pressures distort investment... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

capture important information seemingly ignored by the market. A long-short portfolio based on these legislators' views earns abnormal returns of over 90 basis points per month following the passage of legislation. Industries that we... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 31 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

that the corporate social network had disrupted hierarchical structures and that the site was overloaded with information. To begin to remedy these problems, Høylie’s team modified the group architecture and issued guidance for platform... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Sep 2001
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The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

researchers gave a large group of executives financial and industry information about one company negotiating to acquire another. The executive subjects were randomly assigned to the negotiating roles of buyer or seller; the information... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

Digital Agility: The Impact of Software Portfolio Architecture on IT System Evolution By: MacCormack, Alan, Robert Lagerström, Martin Mocker, and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—The modern industrial firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

Publications The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Harvard Business Press Books, 2012 Abstract Innovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Turning High Potential into Real Reward

solely a product problem. NB: I imagine that doing a good job of picking that mainstream market is a function of the entrepreneur's own experience in an industry and his or her intuition about the future. Lassiter: Certainly in the cases... View Details
Keywords: Re: Joseph B. Lassiter; Consumer Products
  • 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

of gaming console industry leadership, how should Sony respond to the overwhelming success of competitor Nintendo's user-friendly Wii over Sony's high-tech PlayStation 3? It was August 2008 and Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of Sony... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

change in a nation with a relatively constant patent policy, Great Britain. Getting Known by the Company You Keep: Publicizing the Qualifications and Former Associations of Skilled Employees Authors: Peter Roberts and Mukti Khaire Publication: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

moment,” points of stickiness, drop off, etc. They also won’t have the biases you likely bring to the table and can look at the numbers objectively. Investors can be helpful with developing your company and product story, as well as speak with folks in the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 06 Jun 2005
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Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

it), the development cycle is significantly shorter. Proponents of OSS claim that if this demand-side learning (as we call it) is sufficiently strong, OSS will oust traditional software. In addition, software engineers claim that the better View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407128 Intel 2006: Rising to the Graphics Challenge Harvard Business School Case 607-136 Examines the evolution of the PC hardware industry over the span of two and a half... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

interest in a concept of competitive strategy more closely grounded in industrial organization economics; and third, with the development of a new course in entrepreneurial management more closely linked to business policy's concerns with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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