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- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
funding leads to a net increase of 2.3 patents. Though valuing patents is difficult, we report a range of estimates for the private value of these patents using different approaches. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50038 View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
Traditional financial advisors cater to baby boomers with substantial savings, requiring minimum amounts for investment upwards of $100,000 to access their services. By contrast, industry-leading Wealthfront and similar firms such as...
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- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
savings from the loans to lower taxes. "This action is consistent with politicians seeking reelection by catering to taxpayers' preference for low taxes, which represents a likely channel for the previous result on the effects on...
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- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
activities that are increasingly going on, it's important to be able to cater to investors' appetite for information. Investors are no longer happy being fed with only the information that managers decide to give them. There are high...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
over the first thirty-four years of the FASB (1973-2006). We examine the influence of auditors' lobbying incentives arising from three basic factors: managing expected litigation and regulatory costs; catering to clients' preferences for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
disappeared, Treasury quickly ramped up its issuance of money-like claims. However, as the anticipated debt burden grew, concerns about rollover risk eventually trumped the desire to cater to money demand, and maturity structure was once...
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- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
for a 26-year-old backpacker. I might be willing to pay quite a bit for a service that caters to my needs and puts me in touch with other similarly-minded people. The key is to identify what the value is to your customer and build your...
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- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
political ends, such as higher employment. "Typically in research on regulatory capture, special interests put pressure on politicians, for example, firms pay money; in my story it comes because a politician wants to be reelected, and therefore View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
cater to these preferences and beliefs by engineering securities perceived to be safe but exposed to neglected risks. Because the risks are neglected, security issuance is excessive. As investors eventually recognize these risks, they fly...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
middlemen and defaulted on their loans. The risk of such events may explain, at least partly, why many seemingly more profitable export crops are not adopted. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-065.pdf Catering through...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
In the past, when it comes to workplaces, office design (and many other artifacts of organizational life) have catered to the observer and not the observed. Unfortunately, it’s the observed who make our organizations successful. So maybe...
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Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
industrial complex that limits healthy competition in order to promote its continued growth and caters to the power and profit-driven demands of its best customers instead of the broader public interest. During the 2016 election cycle,...
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by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
the acquisition of U.S. Oncology, an integrated cancer care company, whose expertise it could leverage in offerings catered to other physician specialties. With a vast portfolio of products and services serving a wide spectrum of health...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
311-118 Worldwide, and in the U.S. marketplace in particular, the French cachet of L'Oréal was one of its most powerful marketing tools. However, with the opening up of emerging markets, L'Oréal had to cater to a diverse customer base: an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
catering pretty heavily toward the millennials. And millennials may not be that interested in what you are selling in a store, because their viewpoints are so different. For example, they are probably a lot more frugal. We don't know...
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- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
world, and this is yet another similarity that we believe may be instructive. It is no wonder that, according to reporting in the New York Times, people are feeling irrelevant at younger ages than ever before. If you don’t believe us, check out this piece about a spa...
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- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/319066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 419-001 Wolfgang Puck: Setting the Table for the Future Chef Wolfgang Puck oversees a disparate business empire that includes fine dining restaurants, a View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
"specializing" in misconduct and catering to unsophisticated consumers, while others use their clean reputation to attract sophisticated consumers. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53404 October 5, 2017 New...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
business school campus. They moved to Beijing, rounded out their management team, received venture capital investment, developed joint-venture partnerships, and set key milestones to create a full-impact product launch for their social networking Web site View Details
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Martha Lagace