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- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
entrepreneur or as an investor. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810072-PDF-ENG U.S. Healthcare Reform: International Perspectives Arthur A. Daemmrich and Elia PineiroHarvard Business School Case 710-040 The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
sketch some important implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select migrants for admission. Looking forward, the capacity of people, firms, and countries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
may explain different ways of organizing across organizations. This study contributes to understanding social entrepreneurship as a field of practice and it describes avenues for theorizing about the different organizational approaches adopted by social entrepreneurs.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-041_1af09bde-47f9-4364-bad6-aaac464be909.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-008 The United Kingdom and the Means to Prosperity After struggling through the country's longest recession... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
been known to exist at least since the days of Marshall, Michael Porter's work, first in The Competitive Advantage of Nations (Porter, 1990) and then in On Competition (originally published in 1998; updated edition in Porter, 2008), has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
In November 2009, the cofounders of Rent the Runway (RTR), a website that rented designer dresses, are debating whether to grow their startup at a measured pace and focus on improving operational effectiveness, or raise a new round of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008
Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain? Authors:Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr Abstract Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
States. Design: We examined the correlation between the coincident index (a proxy for overall economic conditions) and IVF use at the national level from 2000 to 2011. We then analyzed the relationship at the state level through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Managers think of businesses in their portfolios as question marks (too early to tell), stars, cash cows, and dogs. Entrepreneurs "harvest" the spoils of startups once the rapid growth period is nearing its end. This work has... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016
This strategic response is more pronounced for vendors whose stocks of patents are small and whose home markets have weak IP systems. Our study is the first to examine the relationship between heterogeneity in national patent systems and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27
environmental standards that require coordinated complementary investments by various types of private adopter. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2142085 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-089 Raising View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
countries. I find that price levels are identical about 72% of the time. Price changes are not synchronized but have similar frequencies and average sizes. These results have implications for national statistical offices, researchers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
experiments replicated and extended this basic effect, providing evidence of when and why it occurs. Taken together, these studies imply that the proactive revelation of costs can improve a firm’s bottom line. Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
countries whether to participate in the United Nations Global Compact. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47799 Copyright Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments By: Luo, Hong, and Julie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7
milestones: the birth of the silicon chip and the development of the venture capital industry. From humble beginnings, Valentine became a legendary salesman at Fairchild Semiconductor and National Semiconductor before founding Sequoia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
December 4, 2017 Harvard Business Review How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success By: Cespedes, Frank V., and David Mattson Abstract—It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
describe the impact on the global economy and points out that the slowdown is hurting other nations more than the United States, thereby building a powerful case for a somewhat more sanguine view of America's future. In a better-case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
high switching cost channels are retained with greater frequency. Managerial implications of these findings are discussed, as well as opportunities for future research. Putting Patients First: Social Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
savings of 40% versus national brands through the elimination of the BrandTax, the hidden costs the company claimed consumers paid for a national brand. As the venture-funded View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7
Kingdom's National Health Service. We show that low levels of structural closure (i.e., structural holes) in a change agent's network aid the initiation and adoption of changes that diverge from the institutional status quo but hinder the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne