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- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
agents, and this tension presents a boundary condition for when a group decision is superior to an individual decision. We test the implications of the model for a particular phenomenon in venture capital: private angel investments by the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
small businesses like her own, succeeded in pushing the boundaries of antitrust legislation. Edna Gleason, known as the “Mother of Fair Trade.” Courtesy of the journal Pharmacy in History. The photo first appeared in American Druggist,...
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- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
different operations to look beyond their silos to consolidate operations and share best practices to lower costs. Similarly, firms such as big-box retailers that centralize merchandising and distribution to deliver low prices must ensure...
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by Robert Simons
- Web
Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog
The resulting ability to retain or outsource various subsets of production stages within firm and country boundaries fueled the fragmentation of production and the emergence of global value chains. A key...
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
the heritage my father left us," says Bertarelli, who has led the Ares-Serono Group, already strong, to even greater heights. During the last five years he has formed a management executive committee and reorganized the firm "to prepare...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
on an Emerging Field Authors:Sandeep Purao, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan Hevner, Veda C. Storey, Jan Pries-Heje, Brian Smith, and Ying Zhu Abstract The boundaries and contours of design sciences continue to undergo definition and refinement....
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And the top consulting (or law) View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
green building, including evolving boundaries of professional jurisdictions; changing industry strategies and structures, including the roles of ownership, supply firms, and market niches; new operational, organizational, and cultural...
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Anna Secino
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
before and after the policy change. We find that these responses increase significantly after the policy change. These stronger responses partly occur while the review is still ongoing and persist on average for two years. Corroborating these results, we also document...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
expertise will continue to be the bedrock of the academy but the boundaries that separate schools and faculties will melt away. This trend has already taken hold at Harvard, where faculty from across the University are building formal and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
end of the studio’s decade-long string of successes that included Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo—each movie breaking new ground in its own way, pushing the boundaries in terms of both technology and storytelling. It was...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
launch Bridgespan. Over the years, the firm has assisted HBS professors in writing several social enterprise cases, and two have been written about Bridgespan itself. For his part, Tierney is chair of the HBS Social Enterprise...
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- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
the current review integrates multiple streams of research relevant to brokerage and brokering—including those on structural holes, organizational innovation, boundary spanning, social and political skill, workplace gossip, third-party...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Print View - Course Catalog
restrictions and advances in technology. The resulting ability to retain or outsource various subsets of production stages within firm and country boundaries fueled the fragmentation of production and the...
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- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
the prior year's stock selections, suggesting that investors believe that a successful process in one year is likely to be repeated the following year. We believe that these findings are particularly interesting given recent efforts to require View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
difficulty responding. By defining the rules and boundaries of the competition, Juniper was able to capitalize on Cisco's first-mover momentum. Lick 'em by joining 'em. When the owner of an independent coffeehouse in Oakland, Calif., saw...
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by David Stauffer
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
displays) at the fiscal year-end. Firms also engage in similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
or where they are crossing ethical boundaries for the good of their own group.” Gino and colleagues write about this paradox in a new paper forthcoming in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes with a decidedly...
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by Michael Blanding
- Web
The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
possibilities of advertising as a sales tool for various types of products and sizes of firms and to formulate effective plans of sales strategy involving its use in conjunction with other sales and promotional methods.”26 Upon their...
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