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- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
Effects, and Investment Strategy Willy ShihHarvard Business School Note 611-082 This technical note discusses scale economies and direct and indirect network effects in the context of building better business models. Some of the great...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
bureaucracy can be wildly at odds with what entrepreneurs and their backers really need. Economists have also focused on a second problem, delineated in the theory of regulatory capture. These writings suggest that private- and public-sector entities will organize to...
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- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
industries), and that there is a tight relationship between the direct impact of a shock and the magnitudes of the downstream and the upstream indirect effects. We then investigate the short-run propagation of four different types of...
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Sean Silverthorne
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2019
in any given year, and therefore we fund nearly all direct and indirect costs with internally generated, unrestricted cash. Before turning to the outlook for fiscal 2020 specifically, we offer a comment on the School’s capital activity...
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- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
for offsetting equity issuances by firms. In particular, we explain the importance of accounting for indirect equity issuances, which constitute the majority of total equity issuances in public firms. In addition, S&P 500 firms are...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
are harder to replace than those with lower coupling. The measures of coupling that best explain differences in IT agility include all indirect dependencies between software applications (i.e., they include coupling and dependency...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
profits than the two-sided platform mode when the chicken-and-egg problem due to indirect network effects for the two-sided platform mode is more severe and when the degree of complementarity/substitutability among sellers' products is...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
rely on indirect governance through regulated competition among political as well as economic actors in structures that in many ways parallel the competition found in organized sports. Inevitably these two systems develop as well as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
hand. You cannot resolve design issues—such as whether to adopt a direct or an indirect channel or, if indirect, how many levels are appropriate—without a sense of how distribution policies and practices are translated. Similarly, you...
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- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
based upon directed network graphs, which allows us to identify all of the direct and indirect linkages between the components in a system. We use this approach to define three fundamental architectural patterns, which we label...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
that the cost of change is associated with the degree to which applications are highly coupled. We show the best measure of coupling that predicts the cost of change is one that captures all the direct and indirect connections between...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—Financial constraints are not directly observable, so empirical research relies on indirect measures. We evaluate how well five popular measures (paying dividends, having a credit rating, and the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
show that the more you reassure others that you'll protect their privacy, the more guarded and apt to lie they become. So be nonchalant when discussing sensitive topics. Cultivate leaks. People often reveal information unwittingly, so listen carefully for any slips and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
initially positive indirect network effects decrease in strength, reach their limit, and eventually turn negative. The limit to network effects is different for different types of agents. For agents with few outside options, the limit to...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Demographic Changes By: Bardhan, Pranab, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee, and Francisco Pino Abstract—This paper studies how land reform and population growth affect land inequality and landlessness, focusing particularly on indirect...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
a direct approach—promising indirect benefits—was the alternative tactic for making progress. We are here to invest in your country, Khoja or another Roshan representative would explain. You may not benefit from Roshan personally today,...
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Julia Hanna
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
Telling an employee that her job performance falls in the bottom of her group will lead that employee to better her performance. But telling her that she is at the top of the group will not significantly affect performance. An indirect...
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- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
simultaneously manage the seemingly contradictory dualities of the job: integrating direct decision-making with indirect levers like strategy and culture, balancing internal and external constituencies, proactively pursuing an agenda...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
but some probably should not. In making their location decisions, some managers failed to understand hidden costs of offshoring, such as indirect costs of hiring and retention, supervision, and intellectual-property protection. We also...
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- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
product variety and inventory levels on store sales. Using four years of data from stores of a large retailer, we show that increases in product variety and inventory levels are both associated with higher sales. We also show that increasing product variety and...
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Sean Silverthorne