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- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
sectors, and if so, what causes such variation. In this study, we use network-based methods of analysis to define and measure the degree of hierarchy in two industry sectors in Japan: automotive and electronics. Our empirical results show that the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
electronic devices, thus providing a “pen-and-paper-like” experience. Moreover, the device allowed for the convenient and non-eye-straining reading of typical documents. Though enthusiastically received by several investors, there was...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
deliberate and optimal allocations to passive and highly skilled active investment vehicles, and they should eliminate commitments to structurally underperforming long-only active managers, unless the evidence of ability to generate alpha (rare) is clear, and the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
deductibles. We show how choice difficulties or biases may lead patients to respond to such increases in patient cost-sharing by reducing demand for high-value care, muddying the traditional argument that the price elasticity of demand for View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Authors:Joseph Rhatigan, Sachin H. Jain, Joia S. Mukherjee, and Michael E. Porter Abstract The care delivery value chain is a framework that can help conceptualize the organization and structure of care delivery for medical conditions. We...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
strategy and organizational management. Products are being developed through open innovation, with input from people connected to each other and the company only through a common interest—and electronic media. Virtually every company on...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
a record of racist or misogynist or homophobic tendencies. Boards of directors afflicted by conflict or indifference will sometimes look the other way at the actions of their management teams. All of this, of course, is unacceptable. And,...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
frequent punishment and in turn fewer norm violations. Despite ubiquitous scholarly references to Coleman's theory, little empirical work has directly tested it in large-scale natural settings with longitudinal data. We undertake such a test using View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
linking fat cells, inflammation, and diabetes. He now wants to form a company to commercialize these discoveries. At the same time, Isaac Kohlberg, the head of Harvard's Office of Technology Development (OTD), is eager to improve Harvard's View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
offers consumers an extra benefit: online payments tend to create records documenting the fact of a customer's purchase; consumers of free content may feel more confident that their purchases will remain confidential. More broadly,...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
and Toby Stuart Abstract The corporate staff is central in theories of the multi-business firm, but empirical evidence on its function is limited. In this paper, we examine the high-level role of two units of a corporate staff through analysis of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Edmondson, and Michael A. West Abstract— Many teams face the problem of process loss, or suboptimal functioning, with sometimes serious consequences, such as medical errors. Team reflexivity—a deliberate process of discussing team goals,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
engineering major with a goal of building cars, he saw a future spent designing door handles in some automaker’s basement and switched to international affairs and foreign policy. After graduation, he spent three years in China helping his father build a View Details
- 28 Jun 2021
- News
“Where the Dead Lie Thicker”
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
India, the government has begun delivering subsidy vouchers electronically to more than 10 million farmers, a measure that has increased the amount of fertilizer that makes it to smallholders from 11 percent to 94 percent. Masha returned...
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- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
developed a successful track record in the West, raising close to $2 billion dollars globally, and has a growing presence in the UAE following its launch there in August 2013. Finding themselves at a crossroads, Olsson and Sheikha must...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
to regulate them, undercutting the original New Deal strategy of targeting such threats. As a result, the American financial system was left more vulnerable than ever to a major shock." Given this record of regulatory failure and neglect,...
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- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
(“Roland Garros”) for a record tenth time. Krajicek’s plan for the upcoming edition was to focus his recruiting efforts on five exciting, mostly younger, players, and assemble a group of top-20 players around them—but after Nadal’s...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
individual volunteers for a two- or three-year term to keep the whole community functioning smoothly. We also learn that the Zapotec sense of time comes from the sun, not a watch. It’s a difficult adjustment to make from our overscheduled lives back in Boston, where...
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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Abstract This paper presents evidence of performance persistence in entrepreneurship. We show that entrepreneurs with a track record of success are much more likely to succeed than first-time entrepreneurs and those who have previously...
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