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- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Given this assignment protocol, I find that local employees with returnee managers file disproportionately more U.S. patents. I also find some evidence that return migrants act as a "bridge" to transfer knowledge from the MNE... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
treating platform systems and step processes as mutually exclusive architectures sets up a false dichotomy. Creating any good requires carrying out a technical recipe, i.e., performing a series of steps. Step processes in turn can be... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
with an ad campaign called "The Orange Underground," featuring a series of 30-second TV spots in which the Cheetos mascot, Chester Cheetah, encourages consumers to commit subversive acts with Cheetos. (In one commercial, an... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
another. The second involves the extent to which firms borrow and acquire claims on other firms with the proceeds. When a group of firms raises their involvement in this activity, firms outside the group may face more difficulties in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53507 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Understanding Ordinary Unethical Behavior: Why People Who Value Morality Act Immorally By: Gino, F. Abstract—Cheating, deception, organizational misconduct, and many other forms of unethical behavior are among the greatest challenges in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
explanation why markets with two-sided platforms are often characterized by incompatibility with one dominant player who may subsidize access to one side of the market. Specifically, we model competitive interaction between two platform providers that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
it was protected from liability, Walmart failed to act on Elmburg's proposal. The explosions continued. The basic problem with the Blitz gas cans is that when gas is poured from them, there is a risk that gasoline vapors will connect with... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016
Final-Offer Arbitration Challenge Gives Negotiators a Valuable New Tool By: Bazerman, Max H., and Daniel Kahneman Abstract—In legal disputes, contested insurance claims, and similarly adversarial negotiations, one party is likely to open with an inflated View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act slated to be signed this week by U.S. President Barack Obama has been called the most sweeping set of rules for banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression. But what do... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Moreover, there is something resembling "intelligent design" in finance, whereby regulators and legislators act in a quasidivine capacity, putting dinosaurs on life support. The danger is that such interventions in the natural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Industrial Revolution witnessed the founding of many elite business schools in the United States, beginning with the Wharton School in 1881. Harvard Business School, founded in 1908, was one of the first to promote the idea that managers should be trained to think... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
of private equity buyouts. We welcome their interest in our work but think their criticisms are off the mark. Some of their claims reflect a misunderstanding of the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) and its underlying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
collegially, rather than autocratically. Even August Thyssen, a classic autocratic entrepreneur, acted quite collegially with his senior managers, who were granted wide-ranging autonomy. The official term of the "CEO" of German... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
classic shareholder-only financial focus and would be striving to do the best job possible in reporting and explaining its financial results. But if a company is truly committed to sustainability (a claim being made by more and more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
Care? By: Handel, Benjamin, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—Consumers suffer significant losses from not acting on available information. These losses stem from frictions such as search costs, switching costs, and rational inattention,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
implications for the pace at which consumers go online? Amara's Law claims that we tend to overestimate change in the short run and underestimate it in the long run. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/513060-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008
Capacity to Do New Things Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih Periodical:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008) Abstract Most companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
impact. However, although this practice is generally lauded as a win-win for business and the environment, the firm may actually increase emissions if it acts to maximize profit because it would increase production to leverage the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace