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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations. We need a cure, and we need it now. Harvard Business...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
self-report of the licensee. The self-reporting aspect of the environment gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
type of entrepreneurial population studied (e.g., Main Street vs. those backed by venture capital) to identify interesting and irreducible parts of this heterogeneity, while also identifying places where we anticipate future large-scale...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
facilitating their entry at larger firm sizes. On the other hand, the process of lowering financing constraints democratized entry and created a lot more churning among entrants, particularly at the low end of the size distribution. Our results highlight that this...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
economic motives behind individual concerns for privacy. Recent theories of privacy demands in commercial contexts have assumed an economically aware and sophisticated consumer, capable of evaluating the indirect consequences of information transmission. We present...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
companies increasingly are participants in open communities of science and technology. To participate in the system of exchange in such communities, firms often publicly disclose what would otherwise remain private discoveries. In a...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
countries improve trade conditions and build sustainable practices. Back then, fair trade essentially referred to a system of price-fixing, using Resale Price Maintenance contracts to help smaller businesses and associations compete...
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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Sustaining Innovation When Outsourcing Components in Multi-technology, Multi-component Systems Authors:Ian Mackenzie and Casimer DeCusatis Publication:Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice (forthcoming) Abstract Firms producing...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Alan Morrison Abstract—Existing studies suggest that systemic crises may arise because banks either hold correlated assets or are connected by interbank lending. This paper shows that common regulation is also a conduit for interbank...
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Anna Secino
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
and persuasive. However, little is known about the downsides of using too much entertainment. This research focuses on why, when, and how much to entertain consumers in TV advertisements. We collected data in a large-scale field study...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
inspiration and guidance do you think retailers could draw from the Toyota Production System (TPS)? A: TPS highlights include the power of focusing and executing the operational details; the vital role of continuous process improvement;...
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- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
utilize technology to ensure individual privacy. In this world, the system works in favor of privacy, not against it. The distributed imperative we describe recognizes that all value is located in individual end consumers and all cash...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. The abridged version does not include the introduction and final sections of the full case in order to give casewriting workshop participants practice writing those sections. Purchase...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
and costs. I don’t know what our energy system will look like in the future, but the future will be better than we can imagine because technology is going to improve, and the rate of improvement is going to be faster than anything we’ve...
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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
clearer in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the United States, the building of the railroads after 1850 led to the development of mass markets for the first time. Along with improved access to capital and credit, mass markets encouraged View Details
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the 20th century, this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
do large-scale engineering without knowing the laws of physics. As a set of ideas, strategy sought to remedy all these deficiencies. And the effort was spearheaded by, of all people, management consultants — Bruce Henderson and his ilk...
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- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50752 Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France By: Braconnier, Celine, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and Vincent Pons Abstract—A large-scale...
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- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
Authors:David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract Several studies have examined how the ISO 9001 Quality Management System standard predicts changes in organizational outcomes such as...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
in designing and assessing policy. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54968 Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data By: Amano, Tomomichi, Andrew Rhodes, and Stephan Seiler Abstract—Many online...
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Dina Gerdeman