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- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing important roles. Looking at the district-industry level, we find extensive evidence of agglomeration economies among manufacturing industries. In particular, supportive incumbent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.041 August 2013 The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy By: Nanda, Ramana, Ken Younge, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2017
- Teaching Note
Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern
By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Teaching Note for HBS No. 216-057. View Details
- April 2016
- Supplement
Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern Spreadsheet Supplement
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Scott Mayfield
In December 2015, Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) has just made its third bid to acquire Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC), one of the largest railroads in the United States. Having rejected the prior offers, NSC’s CEO James Squires and the NSC board must now value... View Details
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
help to break down cultural and structural barriers to leadership and organizational development, especially for non-white, non-male, and non-cisgender social change leaders.” Beyond the implications for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
attractiveness of a well-structured public-private partnership framework for water distribution in Metro Manila, encouraged us to make this investment. In the process, we were able to change a public utility delivery system that was stuck... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
redefine the meaning of success in business. B Lab’s mission is to assemble a global community of Certified B Corporations, which are companies that meet certain prescribed standards of social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
participation, a result also consistent with household self-reports. Several experiments find an important role for trust in insurance participation. We find mixed evidence that subtle psychological manipulations affect purchase and no evidence that modest amounts of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
entrepreneurial and more creative, if they are to succeed. What is changing in the current business environment? Increased competition means that businesses have to be on their (figurative) toes in order to stay ahead; the only way to do... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
California-based gaming accessories company. Our office in southern China has grown significantly, and we’ve just opened a second office in China to manage sales and marketing. Our revenues have increased by more than 44 percent in the past year. So operationally, the... View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
everywhere. That's a remarkable situation, a sea change from Google's late entry in 1998, and a subject of substantial concern for the users, advertisers, and publishers who depend on Google for information, leads, and advertising... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
American Economic Review The Costs of Sovereign Default: Evidence from Argentina By: Hébert, Benjamin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—We estimate the causal effect of sovereign default on the equity returns of Argentine firms. We identify this effect by exploiting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008
contribute to understanding the contingent effects of policy on organizations and the rise of large corporations in the twentieth century. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-025.pdf Over-reaction to Demand Changes Due... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
technological disruptions. Scholars such as HBS professors Clayton M. Christensen, well known for his research on disruptive technological change and author of The Innovator's Dilemma, and Dorothy Leonard, whose idea of "core... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
factors that inhibit trust formation and those are easier to identify—but the ones that work may be a bit harder," he said. A corporate structure containing relatively few layers of authority is also more conducive to trust formation... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008
for example—in addition to commodity products. It describes how the firm's sales strategy—including changes in structure and compensation—changed as its overall product line evolve. The case also offers an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
additional countries in Central Asia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. With seemingly competing instructions to accelerate growth, while not diluting focus in Turkey or Central Asia, Molinas must decide how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8
granted a U.S. patent for a "flying-machine," which changed the industry irrevocably. While American manufacturers diverted resources from science and technology to patent wars and legal disputes, European aeronautics advanced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
Conference Proceedings More Amazon Effects: Online Competition and Pricing Behaviors By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I study how online competition, with its shrinking margins, algorithmic pricing technologies, and the transparency of the web, can View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman