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  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

strategic use of first-party content by two-sided platforms is driven by two key factors: the nature of buyer and seller expectations (favorable versus unfavorable) and the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

San Diego—brings “significant and long-lasting” benefits, including greater economic growth, global talent, and even more invention to these regions, write William Kerr, the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

demand, the national accounts, and the balance of payments. Aid has no measurable impact on prices or economic growth, though it does affect most components of the national... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

Pay-for-Performance: Implications for the Strategic Compensation of Employees Authors:Ian Larkin, Lamar Pierce, and F. Gino Abstract Most research linking compensation to strategy relies on agency theory View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 23

Rotemberg Publication:Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human tendencies drawn from the psychology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2005 (Revised February 2007)
  • Case

Red Flag Software Co.

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Tarun Khanna, David Lane and Elizabeth Raabe
In 2005, just five years after its formal launch, Beijing-based Red Flag Software was the world's second-largest distributor of the Linux operating system and was expecting its first annual profit. On a unit basis, Red Flag led the world in desktops (PCs) shipped with... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Competitive Advantage; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Globalized Markets and Industries; Information Technology Industry; Distribution Industry; Beijing; United States
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  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

channels. CD sales still accounted for the majority of revenues, but sales of music in digital formats (downloads, videos, ringtones) were growing significantly and accounting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

What is Web3?

Web3, a new era of the internet, uses blockchains, tokens, and wallets (tools for storing and managing digital assets) to facilitate a wide range of services and functionalities, including the transfer of assets from person-to-person. It represents a paradigm shift... View Details
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

essentially disappeared. The largest firms in the industry in 2000 were sponsors and participants in open platform systems. I argue that the vertical-to-horizontal transition in the computer industry was an organizational response to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

entrepreneurship. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54068 January 2018 Journal of Labor Economics Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Competition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

this all in perspective. His recent book, Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures—and Yours, published by Harvard Business Press, looks at the growing global influence of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

our economy and our global competitiveness? The IS2K presentation "The Impact of Future Telecommunications Infrastructures" offered the two scenarios above, the result of an IEEE-USA/Cornell University... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 04 Apr 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

value to those with the resources to defend its ownership, a kind of survival of the fittest philosophy? Yet another school of thought asks whether these issues are overblown.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 03 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 3

negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

firm-level, and that recording back-up solutions is most valuable at medium levels of environmental change. Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice Authors:N. Gregory Mankiw, Matthew C. Weinzierl, and Danny Yagan Publication:Journal View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Invest in the New Abnormal

in the current environment has resulted in volatility in purchases and productivity, resulting in a net economic crisis that has not been witnessed by anyone alive today.” To engage customers in this new abnormal, Deshpandé offers the... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa

visitors. “We are focusing on initiatives targeted to improve the economic prosperity of the people.” The message resonated with the HBS group, who visited 20 companies in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya; and... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Navigating the Populism Phenomenon

HBS professor Rafael Di Tella says he saw firsthand the downside of populism and the economic hardships of Peronism while growing up in Argentina. The country—and Latin America... View Details
Keywords: April White