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- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this connection works primarily through lower employment growth of start-ups in cities that are closer to mines. These View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
online ad budget is spent on search advertising, which is more effective than banner advertising at driving traffic. The ability to place your ad on the screen exactly where someone is searching for information is profound. And with... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
cost something on the order of $5 billion, not the $5 million one might expect for a typical start-up,” Esty explains. And all too often, he adds, they can turn out to be losing propositions. The managerial challenge is to make sure that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
strategy revolution was a way of systematically putting together all the elements that determined their corporate fate, in particular, the three Cs central to any good strategy: the company’s costs, especially costs relative to other... View Details
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
marketplace and so under-invest in the new technology. The second suggests that incumbent firms develop organizational capabilities and cognitive frames that make them slow to "see" new opportunities and that make it difficult to respond View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
toward other interests. Staying on mission and building an effective organization to carry out the mission requires a clear strategic focus and a well-developed strategy backed by well-aligned operations. This is the focus of our research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
eloquence (and glibness, satire, whimsy, and good humor, to name but a few characteristics), but their loquaciousness combines with an ever-increasing roster of alumni (49 new correspondents added in 1999 alone) to create an ongoing challenge for the Bulletin: to keep... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
loaded cost basis. If these customers are not contributing to covering the overhead, let them go quietly. The best approach is to raise prices slightly to these customers. Most are "mercenaries" who will quickly, but quietly,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50668 forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Design of Search Engine Services: Channel Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors examine prominent placement of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
social categories (gender, tenure within the firm). In dyad-level models of the probability that pairs of individuals communicate, we find very large effects of formal organization structure and spatial collocation on the rate of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement
leading, and managing effective and sustainable organizations. But what can leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, etc. do to give the female workforce the tools to thrive during this important health journey? Let’s start with education: what... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
raise funds from outside investors. The relationship appears not to be causal but instead driven by selection effects across heterogeneous teams with varying degrees of inequality aversion. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
his argument that he was being underpaid because he could not credibly threaten to leave the company if he didn't get his way, in contrast to a non-founder who could effectively do so. From an academic perspective, past studies assumed... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
capital are also important for the effect of FDI on economic growth. Download working paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W12522 A New Framework for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks of an Economy Authors:Dale F. Gray, Robert... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
do some sophisticated talent arbitrage” In order to gauge the effect on executive pay, the researchers obtained a data set from a large global headhunting company, one of many consulting firms that act as intermediaries between companies... View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
difficult decisions over what investments to keep and what investments to cut. How they made those choices and what effect they had on business and national recovery in the long run hasn’t been well understood, however. Harvard Business... View Details
- 31 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent This Summer Coding
would it cost to build/change/scale this? - is a frequent question in startup land (elsewhere too) where recruitment targets are typically behind schedule. In my case, I saw two main options to building a MVP (minimum viable product):... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
industries — from automotive and semiconductors, to banking and pharmaceuticals. Citing the falling costs of computing and advances in simulation and combinatorial technologies, he urges companies to capitalize on new opportunities for... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
the authors came to believe, government had inflicted detrimental effects not only on industry but also on the Japanese economy as a whole. Their new book Can Japan Compete? is the result of years of research by Porter, the author of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
there is room available for merchants to experiment with different value combinations. "Contingent free shipping magnifies the effectiveness of a promotion" To help online sellers understand the complex relationship between... View Details