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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
identified in the education and skill system, labor market incentives and flexibility, the ability to translate R&D outcomes into economic value creation, and in preparing the economy for the new realities of globalization. Maybe most...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
integration affects prices, this paper provides evidence that prices can affect integration. Many theories in organizational economics and industrial organization posit that integration, while costly, increases productivity. It follows...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008
"marginal" grocery items, or grocery items that a customer does not typically buy. These findings are consistent with a simple mental accounting model but are not consistent with the standard permanent income or lifecycle theory...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
learning muscle.Fuller: Let’s talk about the difference between the U.K. and the U.S. So you entered the field in the U.K., where there had been, one could argue, a bipartisan commitment to apprenticeship. But it was a fundamentally different, both View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
theory about, and the practice of, technologically mediated communication, power, and interpretation in organizations. Zwischen Familienerbe und globalem Markt. Eigentum und Management von gro en westdeutschen Familienunternehmen im...
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- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
primarily occurred for firms covered by financial analysts. Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Periodical:Industrial and Corporate Change 17 (February 2008): 155-195 Abstract This article...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies of scope achieved by sharing common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
covers all aspects of the energy business. "One idea that I believe will be discredited is the mega-merger theory — that Texaco was too small to be relevant." "Fortunately, there are still strategies that allow a smaller operator to be...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
serial transformers like Amazon leverage business model innovation so successfully. Redefining Success in America: A New Theory of Happiness and Human Development by Michael Kaufman (MBA 1994) Univ. of Chicago Press Work hard in school,...
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- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
he says, will become longer, fatter, and more profitable. Elberse set out to investigate whether Anderson's long-tail theory is actually playing out in today's markets. She focused on the music and home-video industries—two markets that...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
picked the word “zipper,” and one of the guys from England made up this elaborate business theory that intertwined something or other (I can still picture him intertwining his fingers as he spoke) that in the end he claimed was called the...
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- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53459 Winter 2017 Oxford Review of Economic Policy An Invitation to Market Design By: Kominers, Scott Duke, Alexander Teytelboym, and Vincent P. Crawford Abstract—Market design seeks to translate economic...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
engagement of a majority of individuals, and (6) inclusion of as many people as possible. Without these six traits, both marketing and democracy would fail, and with them, society. Drawing on current and historical examples from economies...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
Working PapersInstitutional Pressures and Environmental Strategies Authors: Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel Abstract This paper suggests how institutional theory can explain enduring differences in organizational strategies. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Tarun Abstract—New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don’t yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
to generate profits, he threw them out. To be clear, large German firms definitely do not move as quickly today as many American firms. The German economy is going through fundamental structural changes because of Europeanization and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation is...
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Martha Lagace
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
seriously take on not just open skies, but fair skies... You understand the importance of this industry to GDP if you look back just one year ago and in the midst of sequester, the air traffic control system was shut down and the economy...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
if that’s not the case.Aguh: I call it the Domino’s Pizza theory of job training. I call up, I order certain workers, ready to go. And it doesn’t work that way, particularly in an economy where occupations...
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