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- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
University Hospital, Martini was a "hospital in a hospital" in close proximity to other hospital departments and services. By 2013, Martini Klinik had become the largest prostate cancer treatment program in the world with 5,000...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
funds focused on underserved populations, and limited partners have shown more interest in increasing the number of women and people of color in venture firms and within the venture-backed founder community. “Whether it is in VC or entrepreneurship, you need to be...
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- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
co-movement (or pay-referent sensitivity, PRS) to be more pronounced in geographically concentrated firms where we expect divisional proximity to facilitate information sharing about pay and magnify peer comparisons. To separate the peer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
investors. We find that solo investments by institutions outperform co-investments and a wide range of benchmarks for traditional private equity partnership investments. The outperformance is driven by deals where informational problems are not too severe, such as more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
financial system. In this article, the authors consider how the economic landscape in the West will be affected by oil exporters' new investment strategies and interests over the next decades, how proximate emerging markets will be...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Evidence from Journal Editor Rotations By: Parsons, Christopher, J. Brogaard, and J. Engelberg Abstract—Using detailed publication and citation data for over 50,000 articles from 30 major economics and finance journals, we investigate whether network View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
and pairs researching similar clinical areas. Our results suggest that matching between scientists may be subject to considerable frictions-even among those in relatively close geographic proximity and in the same organizational system....
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
workforce and form their own households—you’re left with fewer people who are physically proximate to their own parents or other seniors for whom they can care. And, of course, they have their own families as well often.Marcelo: As we...
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- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
intensive industries. We also find that leading firms will be more attracted to pools of labor, suppliers, and potential knowledge spillovers when their own contributions are less fungible and cannot be easily leveraged for strategic advantage by View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
no. 5 (May 2007): 760-776 Abstract Given the importance of proximity for knowledge spillovers, we examine firms' location choices expecting differences in firms' strategies. Firms will locate to maximize their net spillovers as a function...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
There are certain things that other people, because they’re more proximate to the worker, may be better suited to do. And so everyone’s like, “Okay, what’s my competitive advantage within this space? And then, how do we kind of move in...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
front line of a turnaround. “It was a chance to contribute to my hometown company, which was in great need of young, innovative leaders,” and offered proximity to family as he and his wife, Kristi Jones MBA 2007, started a family. And...
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- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
professional relationships may "bridge" the asymmetric information. This bridge may be particularly strong if both firms were financed by the same venture capital firm. Third, geographic proximity may also reduce the asymmetric...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
is a powerful distinction to be drawn between two potentially profitable cross-border functions that firms can perform: arbitrage, which involves capitalizing on differences or distance between countries, and replication, which involves capitalizing on similarities or...
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
consume much of their hours, and other things like they couldn’t be on a campus; geographic proximity was a challenge.Kerr: Especially in the western states with lots of wide-open spaces.Pulsipher: That’s right. A lot of rural...
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- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
fungible, and cannot be easily leveraged for strategic advantage by proximate competitors. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-071.pdf Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives Authors:Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso,...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
for the degree to which you are dependent on proximity for quality. Designing future work arrangements needs to be based on what the work requires from us, not on our preferences or the length of our commute. For some companies, the work...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
After a nine-year break, I’ve gone back to work. My foot is still lightly on the gas pedal, but I have consciously chosen not to accelerate until more is worked out. I will say that proximity of work to home has been a key success element...
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- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
first describe unique elements of domestic political economies that are shaping IFRS policies. Then, I inductively isolate two principal dimensions that can be used to characterize the jurisdictions' IFRS responses: proximity to existing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
but understanding that there are times, again, where the physical proximity or working together is actually quite significant and productive. And we see that. There’s no restriction to how many you can do. We see it heavily used by our...
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