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  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

the growth of younger companies and revitalize large corporations through partnerships with innovative SMEs; 3) improving the match between education and employment opportunities, through apprenticeship... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

Case of Search Platforms Authors:Hanna Hałaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We show that a two-sided platform can successfully compete by limiting the choice of potential matches it offers to its customers while charging higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

would not be achieved even if the product offered a payout ratio comparable to U.S. insurance contracts. We present evidence suggesting that lack of trust, liquidity constraints, and limited salience are significant non-price frictions that constrain demand. We suggest... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 19

making use of a local app-development company; using an outsourcing platform like oDesk; contracting with Dashfire, a friend's company that charges low fees for product development in exchange for equity; or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Inner Life of Leaders

election, and we rid ourselves of the disastrous George W. Bush administration. Q: How will you continue to explore the rich aspects of leadership that you have described in Hedgehogs and Foxes? What is your next project? A: I just signed a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Winter 2013
  • Article

The New Patent Intermediaries: Platforms, Defensive Aggregators and Super-Aggregators

By: Andrei Hagiu and David B. Yoffie
The patent market consists mainly of privately negotiated, bilateral transactions, either sales or cross-licenses, between large companies. There is no eBay, Amazon, New York Stock Exchange, or Kelley's Blue Book equivalent for patents, and when buyers and sellers do... View Details
Keywords: Intellectual Property; Platforms; Intermediaries; Aggregator; Patents; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Distribution Channels
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  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

demonstrate that price-sensitive shoppers are more likely to incur search costs in order to locate discounted items. Our results show that adding search frictions can be used as a self-selecting price discrimination tool to match high... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Aug 2016
  • Blog Post

Why I Almost Didn’t Apply to HBS

visit, and I instantly knew that there was something special about this place. The case method, current students, and focus on making a difference in the world matched well with my learning style and outlook... View Details
  • 19 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

the workers—something that can be taken away if things get rough. It's part of what's making the company profitable. Too often, retail managers keep their employees dangling and switch their schedules around on short notice because they feel they have to be free to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage
  • April 2012
  • Article

Corporate Ownership Structure and Bank Loan Syndicate Structure

By: Chen Lin, Yue Ma, Paul Malatesta and Yuhai Xuan
Using a novel data set on corporate ownership and control, we show that the divergence between the control rights and cash-flow rights of a borrowing firm's largest ultimate owner has a significant impact on the concentration and composition of the firm's loan... View Details
Keywords: Ownership; Financing and Loans; Cash Flow; Borrowing and Debt; Accounting; Crisis Management; Relationships; Law; Contracts; Banking Industry
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  • 29 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 29

  Working PapersSurviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance Authors:Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen Abstract We examine in this paper the differential response of establishments to the global financial crisis, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

they should be focusing on their most important priorities, but without stepping back to reflect, few actually know where they are allocating their time. Kaplan advocates writing down what you do every working hour for a week and checking how well your actions View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

an array of implications that can be tested with our data. Our contribution is twofold. We disentangle the role of risk aversion and talent in determining how firms select and motivate managers. In particular, risk-averse managers are... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

principle, be instantly acquired, clarity may take time to develop and may interact with credibility in complex ways so that relational contracts may often be difficult to build. Vicarious Dishonesty: When... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • May 2012 (Revised October 2012)
  • Supplement

H-Soft (B-2): Vikram Sharma

By: Ramana Nanda
Siddharth Kapoor, the Founder and CEO of H-Soft Mumbai, reflected on his meetings as he walked out of VC Ventures' offices in Mumbai. After a few months of intensely pitching his startup to several different investors, he finally had a term sheet in hand. Despite this... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Venture Capital Term Sheet; India; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Investment; Contracts; Partners and Partnerships; India
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  • 04 Mar 2009
  • Op-Ed

Credit is Not the Bogey

their income for housing, and rejecting "credit-impaired" borrowers with less-than-stellar records. Credit card companies have raised fees and increased penalties. Consumers have emerged as both victims and perpetrators. They... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas & Eric S. Belsky; Construction; Real Estate; Financial Services
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

outcomes while controlling for the endogenous matching of projects and organizational forms. Solo firm leases are less profitable than alliance leases because alliance members combine their information and expertise. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November–December 2014
  • Article

Accountable? The Problems and Solutions of Online Ad Optimization

By: Benjamin Edelman
Online advertising might seem to be the most measurable form of marketing ever invented. Comprehensive records can track who clicked what ad—and often who saw what ad—to compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking... View Details
Keywords: Online Advertising; Fraud; Optimization; Incentives; Digital Marketing; Contracts; Marketing Strategy; Organizational Design
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  • 07 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

  Working PapersEveryday Failures in Organizational Learning: Explaining the High Threshold for Speaking Up at Work Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines how people working in organizational hierarchies wrestle View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

business units and improving their leadership skills. The CDC has adopted an innovative pricing structure. Rather than charging direct fees for these consulting services, it proposed to the client that it contract View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne