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- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
are to ‘define’ a new economy—what are the discontinuities and what are the radical advances that would build consensus about a new economy?” What are the earmarks of a “new economy?” What do you think? Original Column Whither the...
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by James Heskett
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
immediately rose substantially. Executives felt that they had enough evidence to discontinue the fees, and the rest of the industry followed suit. Across town in Seattle lies Zillow, a company that distributes information about...
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- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
of them can account for a quantitatively relevant fraction of our results. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54796 Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
followed with its own business school ranking. The two publications ruled the market for nearly a decade before the FT, Forbes, the Economist, and the Wall Street Journal all launched their own rankings between 1999 and 2002. (The Wall Street Journal View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
businesses. Two years after launch, M-Pesa had only 1.2 million registered users. Vodacom eventually decided to discontinue the service in 2013 and relaunch with a new banking partner and new model in 2014, with a focus on serving...
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- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
linguistic, value)-are core to explaining field re-emergence. Although new or discontinuous technologies tend to displace older ones, legacy technologies that are seemingly "dead" can re-emerge, thrive, and even co-exist with...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
that UGC on platforms ranging from Yelp to Facebook has a large causal impact on economic and social outcomes ranging from restaurant decisions to voting behavior. These findings often leverage unique data sets and methods ranging from regression View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
and exploration in terms of innovation streams—incremental innovation in existing products as well as architectural and/or discontinuous innovation. Based on in-depth, longitudinal data from 13 business units and 22 innovations, we...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
“ancient quest to measure.” Specific discontinuities in the practice of information science are identified that, the paper argues, have large consequences for the social order. The infrastructure that runs on big data is described as...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
transformational kind of leadership — deeper into the organization, and they will be inventing other kinds of leadership to stay on top of this incredibly fast-moving, discontinuous world that Gary describes. Q: Who is this course for?...
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by Staff
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
constituency level data for elections to India's state assemblies and a regression discontinuity design. On average, we find that female incumbents are more likely than male incumbents to re-contest but that there is a decline in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
Kittyhawk team had layered in components and features that inflated the price point well beyond $50, and Kittyhawk's strategic flexibility was constrained by its growing losses. Epilogue In the end, HP's Kittyhawk was discontinued and...
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- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
existing products as well as exploring into architectural and/or discontinuous innovation. Based on in-depth, longitudinal data on 13 business units and 22 innovations, we investigate the consequences of organization design choices on...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
finally combine. That will mark the real discontinuity between the economy of the twentieth century and that of the twenty-first. Q: You have drawn on other fields in addition to business, such as history, science, even contemporary...
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
process culminated in competitive and consumer differentiation that ushered in innovation reinvestment and a period of substantive and sustained demand growth for mechanical watches. This paper contributes to research on technology cycles, cognition, and incumbent...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
also increase slightly. Our panel results are supported by a broadband regression discontinuity analysis. Politics does not seem to play a role in allocating funding. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406118 Buddy March Harvard Business School Case 407-128 Entrepreneurial general manager (GM) ignores specific directives from his boss (GVP) to discontinue a new venture that...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
news alters a firm's own project discontinuation decisions. The findings reveal that technological learning dominates competition effects. Firms are most sensitive to competitor failure news coming from within the same market and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
elected as a state legislator encourages the subsequent political participation of women, using a regression discontinuity design on constituency level data from India. We find that female incumbents are more likely than male incumbents...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
funds-available basis. The Program is jointly administered by the MBA Financial Aid Office and HBS Career & Professional Development. Determinations made by the School and the Selection Committee are final. The School and the Selection Committee reserve the right to...
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