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- June 2008
- Journal Article
Strategic Alliances: Bridges Between 'Islands of Conscious Power'
By: George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy
Strategic alliances range from unstructured collaborations, through consortia and joint ventures that superimpose new governance structures on existing firms, to transactions that restructure firm boundaries and asset ownership. In this paper, we draw on detailed...
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Baker, George P., Robert Gibbons, and Kevin J. Murphy. "Strategic Alliances: Bridges Between 'Islands of Conscious Power'." Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 22, no. 2 (June 2008): 146–163.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Private Networks of Managers and Financial Analysts and Their Externality on a Firm's Information Environment
By: Zengquan Li, T.J. Wong and Gwen Yu
When emerging market firms raise external capital, they face a tradeoff where greater transparency may lead to a lower cost of capital but at the cost of revealing proprietary information in their relational business practices. We find that firms overcome this...
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Emerging Market;
Financial Analysts;
Information;
Emerging Markets;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Corporate Governance
Li, Zengquan, T.J. Wong, and Gwen Yu. "Private Networks of Managers and Financial Analysts and Their Externality on a Firm's Information Environment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-135, June 2016. (Revised October 2016.)
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
institutional theory, and economic theory. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Broadening Focus: Spillovers and the Benefits of Specialization in the Hospital Industry Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S....
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Martha Lagace
- March 2018
- Article
Global Business over Time
By: Geoffrey Jones
This article explores how business enterprises have been powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism between 1840 and the present day. It also shows how global firms, emerging out of industrialized Western economies, created and co-created markets and ecosystems...
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- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
can increase creativity within a firm, they also aid in the diffusion of creative knowledge to other firms through personnel and knowledge transfer. Firms that operate within small worlds such as in Silicon...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions
different factors. First, there could be a spillover from broader societal inequalities. For example, Black and Hispanic workers are overrepresented in blue collar and service positions. “Companies such as Google and Facebook have pretty...
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by Michael Blanding
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
demand for control over remittances in the baseline survey. We also find positive spillovers of our savings intervention in the form of increased savings at other banks (specifically, banks in the U.S.). We interpret the effects we find...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
to counterfactuals, multinationals with greater factor-market externalities, knowledge spillovers, and vertical linkages exhibit significant co-agglomeration. The importance of these factors differs across headquarters, subsidiary, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards
addition, employee lateness or absenteeism can have spillover effects. Specifically, one employee being late or absent can negatively affect not only store operations, but also their coworkers by making them stay to make up for the lost...
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- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-100.pdf Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: The Impact of Task Decomposition and Knowledge Distribution on the Locus of Innovation Authors:Karim R. Lakhani, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, and Michael L....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
Founders: An Entrepreneur’s Dilemma Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers Financial Distancing: How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation Feedback or ideas to share?...
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- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
into our theoretical framework. The framework generates a simple test using patent citations that indicates that entrants and small firms have relatively higher growth spillover effects. Download the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
of Knowledge Across Borders (pdf), Strategic Management Journal, 2019. With Do Yoon Kim. Shane Greenstein Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration Shane Greenstein is the Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration...
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- 01 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
Columbia Business School, and Jee-Eun Shin, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. The paper urges managers to carefully consider “the spillover effects” when designing compensation contracts to...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
firms are routinizing their tacit knowledge and tasks? In the same study, we also look at whether the quality management practices implemented in conjunction with ISO 9000 have spillover effects on how they...
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by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
generates a negative effort response to higher wages. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50189 When Proximity May Not Be Destiny: The Role of Existing Relationships By: Hasan, Sharique, and Rembrand Koning Abstract—Research on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
spillover effect to the private sector. The authors studied what happened after municipal governments in California adopted policies that required public (but not private) building renovations and new construction to build "green," which...
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- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
that benefits from knowledge spillovers explain why firms in an industry cluster in specific geographical areas—think Silicon Valley. In the advertising industry, however, View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
with higher average information asymmetries. We fail to find evidence consistent with this proposition. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-014.pdf PublicationsLocation Strategies and Knowledge View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
entry of new female candidates, no change in female or male voter turnout, and no spillover effects to neighboring areas. Further analysis points to a reduction in party bias against women candidates as the main mechanism driving the...
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Sean Silverthorne