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- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
farther you get from your home base, the harder it is to be confident of that knowledge. Be aware that processes you consider core may turn out to be very different from those used by the target company. Cultural differences and governmental regulation often View Details
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by Joseph L. Bower
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
and Finance (forthcoming). (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 05-053 and NBER Working Paper No. 13131.) Abstract The main arguments in favor of and against nominal and indexed debt are the incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
Publications December 2014 Journal of Political Economy Transition to Clean Technology By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Adi’s other research here, and Jonathan’s other research here. More Info Business Credit Programs in the Pandemic Era By: Samuel G. Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, Adi Sunderam & Eric Zwick OCT 2021 The authors develop models that speak to the...
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- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
interference from an incumbent that views the opportunities as unattractive. They have the potential to develop legitimately different skills and business models . There are three factors that contribute to...
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- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
of emotions in collaborative relationships in organizations and suggest that organizational policies can set in motion a cycle of negative emotions that interfere with collaborative work. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,...
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by Rachel Layne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
disclosure subsidize consumers. And third, higher competition intensity tends to increase the volume of consumer information disclosed by firms. Our findings are particularly relevant to the business models of Internet firms and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
media on the train, may actually interfere with people’s ability to transition into work mode smoothly—which makes them feel gloomier about their jobs and more likely to quit. “I was surprised with this finding myself,” Harvard Business...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
to provide a much better balance between productivity improvements and private profitability gains. Importantly in the current context, policy interventions that raise productivity do not create macroeconomic imbalances. Policy interventions that View Details
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by Christian Ketels
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery...
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by HBS News
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4.6 HBS Campus Demonstration Policy - MBA
designated for study, quiet reflection, and small group project work or discussion; residence halls or dining halls where members of the community live or take their meals; offices where the work of the School is carried out; or other places where demonstrations would...
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- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
Competition Between Differentiated Products with Demand for More Than One Variety Author: Andrei Hagiu Abstract We analyze the existence of pure strategy symmetric price equilibria in a generalized version of Salop's (1979) circular View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Drone Policy | About
(military and government), or model (recreational) guidelines. UAS that are operated for compensation are deemed commercial UAS and must receive a Special Airworthiness Certificate by the FAA. Due to FAA regulations, HBS cannot permit UAS...
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- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-104.pdf Competition for Scarce Resources Authors:Péter Esö, Volker Nocke, and Lucy White Publication:The RAND Journal of Economics 41, no. 3 (fall 2010) Abstract We model a downstream industry...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
Cournot-style competition. Meanwhile, each advertiser must pay a participation cost to use each ad platform, and advertiser entry strategies are derived using symmetric Bayes-Nash equilibrium that lead to the VCG outcome of the ad...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology
We operate in much the same way as a telecom business—but instead of fiber optic cables we use lasers to transmit high volume data down from space (think high resolution spectral imagery). A big constraint on our ability to do that is optical View Details
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Technology
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
converging U.S. GAAP with IFRS, competition between the FASB and the IASB would allow GAAP to better respond to market forces. Patent Policy, Patent Pools, and the Accumulation of Claims in Sequential Innovation Authors:Gastón Llanes and Stefano Trento Abstract We...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Working PapersCompeting Ad Auctions: Multi-homing and Participation Costs Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We model competing auctions for online advertising, with attention to the participation costs...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about...
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