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- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
the basis of management processes because they’re easily copied. Operational effectiveness is table stakes in the competitive universe, it is often assumed, and thus cannot serve as a sustainable source of competitive advantage. But data...
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
design integrity of a family of products, how far to extend a brand, how to manage creative employees, and where to source creative work. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607052 ...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
and vertical mergers. Our model highlights a collective action problem: what is good for an individual firm is often not good for the cluster. We speculate that this conflict may be a source of strategic tension in platform firms....
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Examining the outcomes of these projects, we find no quantitative or qualitative differences between projects funded by the crowd alone and those that were selected by both the crowd and experts. Our findings suggest that the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
investment. Complex multinational business groups emerged controlling large investments in natural resources, processing, and services in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
and Organizational Capabilities Authors:R. Gibbons and R. Henderson Abstract A large literature identifies unique organizational capabilities as a potent source of competitive advantage, yet our knowledge of why capabilities fail to...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
based on new-found accountability, overlapping representations of work, and belonging-despite the lack of stable team composition. Quantitative data revealed changes to the coordination patterns in the ED (captured through a two-mode...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World The Empire of Emulation: A Quantitative Analysis of Economic Translations in the European World, 1500-1849 By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
existence of the hierarchical relationships among firms, and empirical work has focused on a single level of an industry or bilateral relationships. However, quantitative evidence on the deep hierarchy in large industrial sectors is...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
managers to distribute these cash flows to capital providers, both debt and equity holders, rather than reinvesting it in the firm. As I mentioned before, project finance resembles LBOs in this respect. Second, the use of high leverage can also be a View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-051.pdf Alignment in Cross-Functional and Cross-Firm Supply Chain Planning Authors:Santiago Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the behavioral processes associated with successful cross-functional and cross-firm alignment in supply/demand planning. We model...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Management L.P. in 2008, 130/30 Funds and a Low Volatility Strategy Harvard Business School Case 209-047 In early July of 2008, William (Bill) Jacques, Chief Investment Officer at Martingale Asset Management, a quantitative value-oriented...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
business, and how the growing ahistorical nature of much management and economics literature has seriously compromised its legitimacy. In a well-documented process, the spread of quantitative and standardized social science methodologies...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
with a minimal level of altruism can be a source of dampened wage responses. The paper also considers a setting where this minimal level of altruism is subject to fluctuations and shows that, for certain parameters, the model can explain...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
unique and previously undocumented source of variation in private school tuition to estimate this key parameter. A majority of Catholic elementary schools offer discounts to families that enroll more than one child in the school in a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Groman said, "we are on the verge of an era in which quantitative analysis will fundamentally change the nature of marketing, much as it changed Wall Street in recent years. The 'quants' are coming to marketing, and marketing capital...
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Daniel Penrice
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Abstract—We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from six data sources between 1963 and 2011. The six measures of expectations are highly positively correlated with each other, as well as with past...
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Sean Silverthorne
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to both demand and cause systemic political change as well. Course Content and Objectives Capitalism today is under attack, criticized from many quarters as being the source of societal ills that range from inequality and systemic racism...
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