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  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

  Publications October 2014 Management Science Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science By: Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl Abstract—Selecting among View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27

damaged financial markets. As an alternative to the patchwork solutions and ideologically charged proposals that have dominated other discussions, the Squam Lake group sets forth a clear nonpartisan plan of action to transform the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

director and the quality of the prior LBO experience. This effect is robust to the most likely alternative explanations and supports the idea that directors and social networks play an influential role in change-of-control transactions.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

under severe economic conditions. We show that many structured finance instruments can be characterized as economic catastrophe bonds, but offer far less compensation than alternatives with comparable payoff profiles. We argue that this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2022
  • News

Singing to the Corn

member of the Omaha Tribe and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. I traveled to Omaha because I wanted to see Keen's work with Sacred Seed, a nonprofit he started in 2014 to educate others about an indigenous, centuries-old approach to growing crops that offers a more... View Details
  • 23 Apr 2014
  • HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

pushing them at convenience store counters. "Distribution of Blu immediately increased by a factor of three," says Quelch. Other top manufacturers followed suit, acquiring their own brands and using their shelf-space clout to increase visibility of the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising
  • 11 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

Another alternative summer camp organized by Independent Means is Noise: The Summer Experience for the Music Entrepreneur. Noise introduces teenagers to the business side of the music industry. "I spend my life trying to make the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 May 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

allows customers to quickly try out ideas and design alternatives without having to manufacture the actual products. When the simulation technology lacks the desired accuracy, it can be supplemented with rapid prototyping methods. Second,... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
  • 03 Nov 2022
  • Op-Ed

Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains

for remote communication. Suggest alternate times to connect Offer suggestions on how and when team members should book time with you outside of office hours. For example, you could say: “Office hours are a great way to bounce ideas... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Banking on HBS

Bank after a distinguished career as a Wall Street investment banker. "I wanted a program that would stimulate their thinking and make them aware of different approaches to problem solving and implementation of alternative courses of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

available to their workers. The conference's agenda alternated between small breakout sessions that brought together participants from different industry areas and large group discussions where all attendees could compare notes. The... View Details
  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

middle of the night), are you thinking about the right issues as you ponder how the future will change your business? The answers to these questions can be tough, and their full implications are not always immediately clear. I provide a real-world guide to the various... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

case describes how Google designed and launched an internal matching market to assign individual workers with projects and managers. The case evaluates how marketplace design considerations—and several alternative staffing models—could... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

characteristics (competence, ambition) and is scarce and in demand on the job market. This research uncovers an alternative kind of conspicuous consumption that operates by shifting the focus from the preciousness and scarcity of goods to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

evidence of a lower likelihood of SEC enforcement for labor-intensive firms that are headquartered in districts of senior congressmen that serve on committees that oversee the SEC. All of these results hold after controlling for firms' accounting quality and two View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

in conjunction with debt, to be the best policy alternative under real external shocks for emerging nations. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44340 How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

demonstrate, a coordination perspective helps resolve some empirical puzzles, but it also represents a challenge to received wisdom grounded in the salience of cooperation. To stimulate future research, we discuss alternative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

hypotheses underlying the firm's balanced scorecard and strategy map reveal problems with the strategy on a timelier basis. We also test alternative hypotheses to those underlying the firm's formal strategy map and scorecard that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

case study of a project in a Scandinavian life insurance company where the value network, an alternate value configuration analysis tool to the established value chain, was used to represent the company's activities and identify and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

behind Coke and Pepsi. Mountain Dew is now a $4.7 billion business, and this success can be largely attributed to using advertising to create the right allegories at the right time. Brand Equity Through Cultural Authority Mountain Dew ads have consistently championed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace