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- 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22
Publication:Journal of Peace Research (forthcoming) Abstract This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic, and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This within-country analysis View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
widely distributed and available, open innovation complements traditional innovation logics. We induce these ideas from the literature and with extended examples from Apple, NASA, and LEGO. We suggest that task decomposition and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
more or less effective? Does bundling serve as a complement or substitute to network effects? To address these questions, we develop a consumer-choice model from micro-foundations to capture the essentials of our setting, the handheld...
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Anna Secino
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
low return. He also offered strategic pointers for companies immersed in the field. Suddenly, with the ability to monetize IP, there was a new freedom.— Gary P. Pisano At moments during Pisano's talk, titled "The Biomedical...
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- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
and other forms of innovation. We also propose a research agenda to systematically address the social welfare implications of financial innovation. To complement existing empirical and theoretical methods, we propose that scholars examine...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
SaaS, we were able to partner with customers very differently and complement their skill sets. I’ll give you one example: Through the pandemic, a lot of companies for the very first time had to close their books remotely, ourselves...
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- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
piracy strategically to improve its market position? From a managerial perspective, these are significant questions. If it turns out that OSS will incontestably displace traditional software, software firms need to adapt as quickly as...
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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
domestic institutions of states. The interdependence between these global and domestic institutional forms is complex, with target-country democracy being a substitute for economic IGOs but a complement for social and cultural IGOs....
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
what the School teaches, and to whom. How can HBS best complement and contribute to the work of the University's world-renowned laboratories as well as to cutting-edge, science-based firms in Boston and beyond? Can the School itself learn...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
department complements my marketing experience," he says. "I believe it is important to gain experience in complementary fields if you work in consumer products, rather than become an expert in one particular field. Obtaining experiences...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008
the entrepreneurial venture's specimens. Non-profit and academic organizations were more likely recipients of the academic-housed program's specimens. These findings suggest that although the programs procured from a somewhat similar pool of donors, they also View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
clear objective. If you don't have a good fix on your destination—be it a product or service, a strategic or competitive outcome, or anything else—you may as well not start the journey. For a lot of your work, though, this so-called...
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by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
microprocessors to computer makers such as Compaq and Dell. The company competes with chipmaker Advanced Microdevices and complements Microsoft's operating system and applications software. Ironically, the businesses that are creating...
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- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
interdependence between the IGO network and the domestic institutions of states. The interdependence between these global and domestic institutional forms is complex, with target-country democracy being a substitute for economic IGOs, but a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based cognitive-computing system that attempted to...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
capital. Purchase this working paper from SSRN: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12592 Cases & Course MaterialsFriendster (A) Harvard Business School Case 707-409 In January 2006, the president of Friendster needs to choose between two View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
political participation and interest while improving representation of all groups. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52460 December 2016 Strategic Management Journal Through the Mud or in the Boardroom:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
raises aggregate productivity through two channels: (1) trust facilitates reallocation between firms by allowing more efficient firms to grow as CEOs can decentralize more decisions and (2) trust complements the adoption of new...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Resignation means for the freelance marketplace. And we’ll consider how businesses can strategically tap the contingent workforce. Micha, welcome to the Managing the Future of Work podcast. Micha Kaufman: Thanks so much for having...
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- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
course of action). It shows that persuasion and authority are complements at low levels of effectiveness but substitutes at high levels. Furthermore, the principal will rely more on persuasion when agent motivation is more important for...
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Martha Lagace