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- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
dubbed "a market for know-how." The new entrants became sellers; established pharmaceutical companies became buyers of the technology. This market for know-how reduced the barriers to entry. "Suddenly, with the ability to...
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- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
researchers gave a large group of executives financial and industry information about one company negotiating to acquire another. The executive subjects were randomly assigned to the negotiating roles of buyer or seller; the information...
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by James K. Sebenius
- 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12
asymmetric information concerning the value of a new technology affect the strategies of the platforms and the market outcome. We find that the incumbent dominates the market by setting the welfare-maximizing quantity when the difference in the degree of asymmetric...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
that only large enterprises could attempt. IBM, for instance, has created a nonprofit partnership, World Community Grid, through which any organization or individual can donate unused computing power to research projects and see what is...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
Gazprom (B): Energy and Strategy in a New Era Harvard Business School Case Supplement 709-009 President Putin publicly stated that Gazprom, the largest natural gas producer in the world, was a powerful political lever of the Russian state...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
Firms Respond to Being Rated Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
converting an idea into reality, recruiting inspired talent, transforming buyers into partners, aligning financial and other supporters, and scaling the business. 100 Mistakes of a Start Up CEO (Start Up Guru Series) by Bill Lewis (AMP...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
we think it's powerful and has led to a lot of success for us. We need to do a lot of that training early on with people, and obviously the more experienced the person is who has yet to encounter Jobs, naturally the more resistance they...
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- 16 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
program in El Salvador is giving unemployed youths the skills to work in the country’s growing service sector. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53719 2018 The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8
learning-by-doing coupled with reflection. Further, we hypothesize and find that the effect of reflection on learning is mediated by greater perceived self-efficacy. Together, our results shed light on the role of reflection as a powerful...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
that if all songs are priced equally, those albums are a particularly "good deal" for consumers. But that is not what I found: The number of songs on an album does not really matter. “The labels did themselves a disservice by granting a player like Apple such...
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- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
the identities separate). We suggest that the alignment or misalignment of these pressures and preferences shapes peoples' experience of the power relationship between themselves and their organization/occupation and affects how they...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
relative to one-sided markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-011.pdf Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? (revised) Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We analyze the incentives to divert search for an information intermediary who...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
markets, which have had biosimilar competition since 2006. Using our own survey, we analyze how market features and public policies predict biosimilar entry, price, and penetration, finding significant heterogeneity across countries and products. Effective View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
Lady Gaga, and LeBron James? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge over their rivals? In this book, drawing on my case studies and other research on the worlds of media and sports, I explain a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
who offer innovative products. Buyers who trust their current suppliers are less likely to seek information about the new product and they express less interest in purchasing it. Once the product becomes available, they do in fact make...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
behavior on an ongoing basis. Communication is a central part of that story. Negotiators can have good reasons for not saying everything they're thinking. Holding back information can be a simple matter of self-defense. If a seller reveals her bottom line, that may be...
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by Michael Wheeler
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited liability typically enjoyed by credit officers. Second, we present direct evidence that incentive contracts distort judgment and beliefs, even...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
theoretical and practical challenges related to an organization's philosophy and operations. According to Associate Professor Karen Wruck, an expert on finance and firms in crisis, acquisitions often fail to create the value anticipated by the View Details
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry