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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
also considered the impact of business as a poverty alleviator and whether business engagement alone is sufficient to lift individuals out of poverty broadly. “The aim of the conference and the resulting, just-published book, Business Solutions for the Global Poor, is... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
Chinese and Indian scientists and engineers to U.S. technology formation increased dramatically in the 1990s. At the same time, these ethnic inventors became more spatially concentrated across U.S. cities. The combination of these two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
platform has a single provider that solely controls its technology, for example, Federal Express, Apple Macintosh, or Google. With a shared platform, such as Visa, DVD, or Linux, multiple firms collaborate in developing the platform's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
rapidly-particularly in situations in which competitors apparently have strong incentives to adopt them and a well-developed understanding of how they work-remains incomplete. In this paper, we suggest that competitively significant... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
opportunities we have to develop more interaction with the business community through colloquia like this and through Executive Education programs. I think it's critically important for HBS and for the country to grow leaders who are fluent in the language of View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
Soule Publication:New York: McGraw Hill, 2009 Abstract This new edition examines how information technology enables organizations to conduct business in radically different and more effective ways. The authors objective is to provide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
management practices. Using data for 58 countries, we show that after the adoption of mandatory sustainability reporting laws and regulations, the social responsibility of business leaders increases. We also document that both sustainable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
for developing cases.) The best cases describe real, not fictitious, organizations and real business issues. Within the business school, cases had become the dominant mode of instruction by the mid 1930s, and acceptance was equally swift outside. By 1922 casebooks had... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
targeted firms were more likely to adopt ESO expensing relative to a control sample of S&P 500 firms; (ii) within targeted firms, the likelihood of adoption increases in the degree of voting support for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
is that fiscal risk and social risk interact in complex ways. When considering many potential projects, government cost-benefit analysis thus acquires the flavor of a portfolio choice problem. We use the model to explore how the relative attractiveness of two View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
costs by adopting three other strategies, although each would probably trigger a political battle: Cities could change their healthcare policies for retired workers by increasing deductibles and co-payments. They could also cut back on... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
employees in a large information technology firm. These findings have implications for research on homophily, gender relations in organizations, and formal and informal organizational structure. Exclusivity, Contingent Control Rights, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
If we value achievement and adopt celebrity standards, we will certainly fall victim to our own excess. Nothing will be enough, and success will never satisfy. If we're high achievers, we may be plagued with self-doubt, feeling that we've... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
origins and evolution of the idea of the individual, finishing with the modern-day ideas of political theory and public policy. By identifying the key characteristics governments should either adopt or avoid to enable their citizens to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
constantly changing environment, companies must deploy talent in new ways to remain competitive. The authors provide leaders with a new playbook for acquiring, managing, and deploying talent for today’s agile, digital, analytical, View Details
- 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016
pounding). In two experiments, participants were eye-tracked while viewing photographs of men and women adopting either dominant, high-power (i.e., expansive and open) or submissive, low-power (i.e., contractive and closed) nonverbal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007
paradox by considering the enabling role of actors' social position. Adopting a relational view of human agency, I model the impact of their social position on the likelihood that actors will initiate changes that diverge from the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
services. In making strategic decisions around technology commercialization, managers often assume that the intellectual property environment and the architecture of the industry are beyond their control. This need not be so. This article... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace