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- 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010
incentivized boards of directors may have played a role in protecting the interests of outside investors. Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:NBER Macroeconomics Annual (forthcoming)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
sleep, all participants were presented with a problem that required a creative solution. In the two-odor conditions, a hidden scent diffuser spread an odor while the problem was presented. In the sleep-with-conditioned-odor condition,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 11, 2006
the following century. Firms employed marketing and marketing strategies to diffuse products and brands internationally despite business, economic, and cultural obstacles to globalization. The process was...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
centuries, we document two new facts: there has been convergence in adoption lags between rich and poor countries, while there has been divergence in penetration rates. Using a model of adoption and growth, we show that these changes in the pattern of technology View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
behavioral indicator of liking. We trained a natural language processing algorithm as a “follow-up question detector” that we applied to our speed-dating data (and can be applied to any text data to more deeply understand question-asking...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
“ancient quest to measure.” Specific discontinuities in the practice of information science are identified that, the paper argues, have large consequences for the social order. The infrastructure that runs on big data is described as View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45468 August 2013 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews By: Kang, Jun Seok, Polina...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26
amplify investors' chasing of past returns rather than facilitate the processing of useful information in fund portfolios. Fund managers exploit this behavior by purchasing media-covered past winners at reporting dates, a strategy most...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
over time, is supervision of the continuous process of determining the nature of the enterprise and setting, revising, and attempting to achieve its goals."9 The motivation for these conclusions was supplied by an industry note and...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51538 July–August 2016 European Business Review The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors By: Teixeira, Thales S., and Peter Jamieson Abstract—A new wave of Internet startups is disrupting established businesses by the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
H. Carpenter Abstract Front-line staff possess an immense amount of functional and experiential knowledge from which their organizations can learn. This paper examines two distinct processes for leveraging front-line staff knowledge in...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26
Friedman-is that managers should act to maximize shareholder value, and thus that they should take every opportunity (within the bounds of the law) to structure market institutions so as to increase profitability. We maintain here that if the political View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
Simcoe, an assistant professor at Boston University, adds that such policies might also resolve a type of coordination problem often seen in the diffusion of technology standards, such as the Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface or a new...
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- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
Society Has Social Science Taken Over Electoral Campaigns and Should We Regret It? By: Pons, Vincent Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51036 May 2016 Harvard Business Review Embracing Agile: How to Master...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
impediments to the diffusion of strategy field ideas into antitrust. Publisher's link: https://federallegalpublications.com/antitrust-bulletin/201501/atb-2014-59-4-05-greene-influences-of-strategic-management-antitrust-disco February 2015...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
Working PapersCorporate Social Entrepreneurship Authors:James Austin and Ezequiel Reficco Abstract Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced and powerful forms of Corporate...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
relationship between the diffusion of advanced internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from the early 1990s to the early 2000s and,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24
country-level factors that, by intensifying scrutiny on firms and diffusing global norms to their headquarters countries, limit firms' use of selective disclosure. We test our hypotheses using a novel panel dataset of 4,750 public...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
processes of production and distribution. This was a massive innovation over the older model of a single owner who tried to oversee everything. Under managerial capitalism, ownership became dispersed, but control remained concentrated in...
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14
offshore clusters of multinationals are not a simple reflection of domestic industrial clusters. Agglomeration economies including capital-good market externality and technology diffusion play a more important role in the offshore...
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Sean Silverthorne