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  • October 2009 (Revised October 2010)
  • Supplement

Sara Campbell Ltd. (C)

By: Romana L. Autrey, V.G. Narayanan and Julia Rozovsky
Supplements the Sara Campbell Ltd. (A) and (B) cases by revealing the aftermath of issues presented in the (B) case. The students are given context to discuss how this situation could have been prevented. View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Employee Relationship Management; Outcome or Result; Situation or Environment; Conflict Management; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • 28 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

managers: What happens at the start of a bidding process is not always indicative of how it will end up. Sara Grant: What attracted you to study late-bidding behavior on eBay and Amazon? Were there any surprises from what you originally... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

selects among potential SSOs and how the final standard is shaped by the sponsor's and SSO's design. Sara Grant: In your paper, "Certifying New Technologies," it appears that things are becoming a... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology
  • 16 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Reality of Web Services

Knowledge. "The organizational challenge comes as all stakeholders get together and hammer out common definitions. This might not seem like the kind of work that leads to disputes, but it is," he says. Sara Grant: In looking at... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
  • 13 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology

influential…, PTCA has been used less frequently than in hospitals with less influential surgeons." And even if PTCA and other innovations make it past initial gatekeepers, it's a long road to adoption because of learning curves disrupted View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Health
  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

diffused into the market. The debate was this: Did Microsoft win because its Internet Explorer was the technologically superior product to Netscape Navigator, or was Microsoft just more successful at the distribution end by convincing... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology
  • 12 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

The world as we know it is about to change in many ways thanks to a "broadband explosion"—the coming together of real-time communication and rich media. Professors Robert Austin and Stephen Bradley discuss their new book by that... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 29 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

outside firms, and that knowledge is diffusing in both directions." One implication for executives: Don't lock your scientists, researchers, and inventors in ivory towers. Your organization will benefit by the knowledge that flows to... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing
  • January 2008 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

Sara Campbell Ltd. (A)

By: Romana Autrey, V.G. Narayanan and Julia Rozovsky
Describes a situation in which Sara Campbell, the CEO of a women's apparel company, must decide how to resolve the tense relationship with her Financial Controller and ex-brother-in-law, Stephen Holt. Holt was employed by Campbell for 10 years, took on the majority of... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Judgments; Governance Controls; Employee Relationship Management; Behavior; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • January 2008 (Revised October 2010)
  • Supplement

Sara Campbell Ltd. (B)

By: Romana Autrey, V.G. Narayanan and Julia Rozovsky
Supplements the Sara Campbell Ltd. (A) case by introducing additional concerns with Holt. In January of 1999, Campbell received a certified letter written by Holt. The letter described Holt's own frustration in working for Campbell. Students are given context to... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Employee Relationship Management; Management; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • Portrait Project

Sara Mattei Gentili

I don’t recall a moment in my life when I had that comforting feeling of belonging. What I do remember perfectly, is the first time I thought I was odd. My kindergarten classmates played in the school’s courtyard, and I sat in a corner reading — Little Women View Details
  • Awards

PEDL Major Research Grant

Awarded a Major Research Grant by the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the UK Department for International Development for their “Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries (PEDL)” research initiative. The grant was awarded for "The Effects of Land... View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Money, Time, and Grant Design

By: Kyle Myers and Wei Yang Tham
The design of research grants has been hypothesized to be a useful tool for influencing researchers and their science. We test this by conducting two thought experiments in a nationally representative survey of academic researchers. First, we offer participants a... View Details
Keywords: Research; Power and Influence; Money
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  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

New Grants Assist Veterans

dollar-for-dollar by the Department of Veterans Affairs. HBS program administrators envision providing up to fifty grants to qualifying veterans each year and hope to generate alumni support to underwrite... View Details
Keywords: veterans
  • Student-Faculty-Profile

Grant Donnelly & Michael Norton

new project. Grant took some casual conversations about whether we could get people to “trade in their trash” into a full-blown research project that will turn into an interesting paper — all View Details
  • Fast Answer

Corporate giving, foundations and grants

information about the missions, programs, and finances of more than 1.7 million IRS-recognized organizations. A free version of GuideStar is available remotely through Candid.  Chronicle of Philanthropy: Covers foundation and corporate giving. Philanthropy News... View Details
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

these war stories with the prospective entrepreneurs, in the form of a list of "top ten" legal mistakes often made by the unsuspecting. In addition, Bagley teaches the second year elective course, "Legal Aspects of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • July 2022
  • Article

Estimating Spillovers from Publicly Funded R&D: Evidence from the US Department of Energy

By: Kyle Myers and Lauren Lanahan
We quantify the magnitude of R&D spillovers created by grants to small firms from the US Department of Energy. Our empirical strategy leverages variation due to state-specific matching policies, and we develop a new approach to measuring both geographic and... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Energy; R＆D; Grants; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Patents; Performance; United States
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  • February 4, 2012
  • Book Review

"When Life Is a Bunch of Carrots." Book Review of Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives, by Ruth W. Grant

By: Nancy F. Koehn
Keywords: Ethics; Motivation and Incentives; Information
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    William T. Grant

    Grant had established a chain of 30 stores, the 25 cent-limit on merchandise was raised to one dollar. W. T. Grant Company evolved into one of the largest retailing companies in the nation. View Details
    Keywords: Retail