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- 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
2017 New York: Oxford University Press Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship By: Jones, G. Abstract—This book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2021
- Teaching Note
GreenFire Energy, 2020: Geothermal Innovation
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In June 2020, after ten years of effort, GreenFire Energy Inc. (GreenFire) demonstrated its new geothermal electricity generation technology, ECO2G™. While conventional geothermal electricity only supplied 0.5% of US demand, the new technology promised to increase this... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
accounting irregularities. Yet this investigation did little to dampen enthusiasm for the new personal health phenomenon, and rumors abounded of private equity deals in the offing. The key question for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
victory for organized labor in a context where New Deal era legislation—most notably the National Labor Relations Act of 1935—created a labor friendly environment in the short run, with possibly adverse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
“waver” over time in the relative weight they put on them. The model predicts that good news about fundamentals can trigger large price bubbles. We analyze the patterns of cash-flow news that generate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
innovation in design spaces related to new sports, like rodeo kayaking and kite surfing. The participants care passionately about their sport, and (because it is new), its design spaces are still largely unexplored. People can also be... View Details
- 30 May 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
barriers that limited firms' geographic scope and unleashing a seemingly unlimited set of new threats, challenges, and opportunities to create value globally. Globalization presents managers with an environment to create value that is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54331 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending By: Cutler, David, Jonathan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2017
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First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
And an audience of customers standing by with their smartphones to record any spectacle seems to have had, until now, unfortunately, no discernable impact on corporate policy guidelines for dealing with uncooperative customers. Companies... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
super-large organizations can maintain a sense of "family." In Wal-Mart's case, it involves such things as clear channels of communications, particularly electronic but also involving frequent store visits by senior executives who spend a great View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
inadequate in the wake of a large negative shock to the system. Following an adverse shock, it becomes critical to emphasize dynamic resilience, which involves forcing banks to actively recapitalize—i.e., regulation needs to focus on getting banks to raise View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
practice. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52649 Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending By: Cutler, David, Jonathan Skinner, Ariel Dora... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
problems become computationally intractable (strongly NP-hard). We apply our model to assess the cost effectiveness of fecal immunochemical testing (FIT), a new screening method for colorectal cancer. Our results show that despite the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
sampling channel and by decreasing returns; and (4) amplify these demand and operational benefits in dealing with customers who have the most acute need for the firm’s products. Moreover, the effects we document strengthen with time as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
important and lasting way of creating value and wealth in the new economy? Morten Hansen, Henry Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria, and Donald Sull argue that one type of incubator, called a networked incubator, represents a fundamentally View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
forthcoming New York: Palgrave Macmillan New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy By: Fredona, Robert, and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. Abstract—This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53092 April 2017 Stanford Law Review The New Look of Deal Protection By: Subramanian, Guhan, and Fernan Restrepo Abstract—Deal protection in mergers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
payments for the precise determination of a ship’s longitude. However, the prize did not prohibit patenting. We use a new dataset of marine chronometer inventors to show that the propensity to patent was high. We argue that while the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
gender diversity, induced by parenting more daughters, improves deal and fund performances. These effects concentrate overwhelmingly on the daughters of senior partners than junior partners. Taken together, our findings have profound... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
through a new survey instrument that allows us to codify CEOs’ diaries in a detailed and comparable fashion and to build a bottom-up measure of CEO labor supply. The comparison of 1,114 family and professional CEOs reveals that family... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne