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- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
using market incentives (Apple's program to draw independent developers to its iPhone/iTouch platform.) We asked Lakhani to discuss in more detail the strategic options available to managing outside innovation. Sean Silverthorne:...
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- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
countries at different stages of development and institutional capacity is needed to surface the role of local conditions and absorptive capacities; micro-level work, that is firm-level data in developed as well as developing nations, to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
(e.g., 5 to 1 or 60 to 1, Studies 1A, 1B, and 1C). Lower pay ratios improve consumer perceptions across a range of products at different price points (Studies 2A and 2B), increase consumer ratings of both firm warmth and firm competence (Study 3), and enhance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
because the legal system and independent courts pressure government to be even handed. Q: Are there common traits among successful leaders in emerging markets? Are the executive skillsets they need to succeed fundamentally different than...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
insurance reform, payment reform, and reform of our delivery system. For me, these are three separate but related conversations, clearly not independent of each other. Most of the conversation has been about insurance: how we pay for it...
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- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
evidence of the efficacy of problem solving when disclosing problem information. The method's application to 166 discrete scientific problems from the research laboratories of 26 firms is illustrated. Problems were disclosed to over 80,000 View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Thus the hypothesis predicts that developers with few or no organizational linkages will design independent system components, while developers with...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
Nien-hê Abstract—Multinational enterprises (MNEs) operate across countries that vary widely in their legal, political, and regulatory institutions. One question that arises is whether there are certain minimum standards that ought to guide managers in their decision...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
marketplace-mode) or by the intermediary (the reseller-mode). Whether the marketplace- or the reseller-mode is preferred depends on whether independent suppliers or the intermediary have more important information relevant to the optimal...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
and, as a result, gain the capacity to curb its influence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf Cultural Notes on Chinese Negotiating Behavior Authors:James K. Sebenius and Cheng (Jason) Qian Abstract Western...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
spread over 45 countries. Comcraft produces steel, plastics, and aluminum products. Chandaria had the option of taking well-paying jobs after his studies in the United States and India in 1951, but opted to take the risk of working in the small business of his father....
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- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
for smart phones in the U.S. and the position of one player, Research In Motion (RIM), who manufactures the popular Blackberry line of products. Early in 2011, RIM is in trouble. Its stock price has plummeted, amidst poor business results, and its future as an View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
prominent philanthropists and members of government, launch Ensina!, seizing Brazil's unprecedented economic growth and national commitment to education. The new independent educational non-profit is to be part of Teach For All, a global...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
is an independent foreign aid agency with the mission to reduce poverty through sustainable economic growth in some of the world's poorest countries. "Farmer training was at the heart of the Ghana program," says Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972),...
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- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
record health worker attendance and patient adherence to protocol, and they automatically prompt follow-up treatment. We combine data from surveys, independent field visits, and government registers to identify impacts on TB-control...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
they merely added a new layer of legal obligations for governance without improving the quality of people serving on the boards or changing their behavioral dynamics. The author—formerly the president or chairman of two global financial firms, an View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
independent directors. The decision to opt out reflects the relative costs and benefits of doing so. Cross-listed firms opt out more when coming from countries with weak corporate governance rules, but if firms based in such countries are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
the "institutional appropriateness" of their controls. Importantly, the fate of the competing control systems was contingent, not on how well their technologies addressed the problem of EurInsurance's capital adequacy, but rather on the controllers' View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
very tough intellectual problem, because for every story of success, there is one of failure," she says. "In some ways, it's the users who win—the phenomenon makes us all richer in terms of the innovation capacity of our...
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by Michael Blanding
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
workplace relationships, sharpen their communication skills, improve their personal brands and, ultimately, make an impact. The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: 10 Facts in 10 Minutes about CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) View Details