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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
drives; and how to manage the disease and vaccinations in the villages of developing countries. The book also explores how governments across the world can work closely with private-sector companies to fight the illness and accelerate...
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- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
Working PapersSell Side School Ties Authors:Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We study the impact of social networks on agents' ability to gather superior information about firms. Exploiting novel data...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
on California and Silicon Valley, we exploit Michigan's inadvertent reversal of its non-compete enforcement legislation as a natural experiment to investigate the impact of non-competes on mobility. Using the U.S. patent database and a...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
processes were already equipped for the challenge. Successful firms, by contrast, developed an explicit strategy for collaboration and made organizational changes to aid performance in these efforts. Ultimately, these actions allowed them to identify and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
worked are positively correlated with firm performance, and differences between family and non-family CEOs account for approximately 18% of the performance gap between family and non-family firms. We investigate the sources of the differences in CEO labor supply across...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
at most 3-way cycles, i.e., by using cycles among no more than 3 patient-donor pairs. However, as kidney exchange has grown in practice, cycles among n>3 pairs have proved useful, and long chains initiated by non-directed, altruistic donors have proven to be very...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
industries. We exploit data from the U.S. Cluster Mapping Project to examine the effects of agglomeration within regional clusters after controlling for convergence at the region-industry level. Our findings suggest that industries...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Breaks in Interaction Improve Collective Intelligence By: Bernstein, Ethan, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer Abstract— People influence each other when they interact to solve problems. Such social influence introduces both benefits (higher average solution quality due to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
commercialization and adoption. Emerging opportunities must be nurtured, and the transition to high growth must be managed. Once breakthrough innovations catch hold, growth must be funded and managed to exploit the full value of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
own partners. The case explores whether these initiatives will lead to a long-term competitive advantage. The firm believes what really will produce competitive advantage is its "Me-To-You-Mindset" initiative that encourages...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
people are chronically disappointed and frustrated by their experiences as consumers and employees. We no longer trust large organizations to serve our needs. On every level, we are experiencing a divisive "us vs. them"...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
the right balance between the private benefits of integrated markets and the public value of civic engagement, evidence on the size of the positive spillovers from local media is needed. To date, such evidence is scant. In this paper, we View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
extremely encouraging, questions about raising his next venture round and the overall environment has made him question the wisdom of this plan. This case provides students an opportunity to explore the true cost of venture debt and when...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
proving elusive. Had Joly done enough to reinvent Best Buy? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716455-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-454 Salesforce.com vs. Siebel (Abridged) View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created...
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- 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
strategy, which exploits tax variation across neighboring counties in different states. We find that taxes matter for innovation: higher personal and corporate income taxes negatively affect the quantity, quality, and location of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
thus leading to capital market benefits by reducing insiders' ability to exploit private information. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-109.pdf Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach Authors:Werner...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010
explore interventions at the individual level and focus on recognized cognitive barriers from behavioral decision-making literature. In particular, we highlight three cognitive barriers that impede sound individual decision making that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
subsistence culture, or jeopardize international freedom of the seas. Global warming will eventually lead to significant increases in resource exploitation in the Arctic. When might that begin? Much of the economic development going on...
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