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- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
Abstract We use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
that facilitate teamwork has been a pursuit of researchers for nearly a half-century. We review existing literature on teams and team learning in organizational behavior and technology and innovation to offer insights for research on new...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
NAS disclosures. Further, following the repeal of disclosure requirements we find no change in the earnings quality of client firms. In sum, data drawn from an earlier time period suggest that auditors' reputational incentives, possible synergies, and knowledge View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
trend? Alan MacCormack: There are 3 main drivers. First, the complexity of products is increasing, in terms of the breadth and number of technologies they include. Cars send maintenance data wirelessly to dealerships; sneakers contain...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
States has often turned to cutting-edge technology solutions to solve strategic and operational challenges. “Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs are skilled in industrial management and strongly...
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- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Annual Report FY20 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
fields of study. WHAT WE DOWHO WE AREWe are 100+ librarians, researchers, business analysts, statisticians, archivists, data scientists, journalists, curators, ontologists, technology developers, and many more subject area or technical...
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- 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016
work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
see those transferable skills. I think it’s really important. Another area is sales reps. They have great opportunities of inspiring and educating. There’ll be great change managers, because as a lot of View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
experience, and you’re making more money. Many of these workers also experience what a lot of us have in their industry, which is, a sudden acceleration of technology deployment, as people work to remote, or what had been four-wall...
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- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
mutually agreed-upon transfers with compensation and are located within the task network. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
still contains many subsistence farmers or folks who are living off of meager agricultural incomes and transfers from the state or their relatives in the big cities. So to compete with all of those site-specific issues would be a...
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by Martha Lagace
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2020
part be considered as cost of goods sold. These expenses include direct costs for staff compensation, specialized outside professional services in information technology (IT) and other functional areas, marketing costs, and residence...
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- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
thriving in today’s flat, networked, increasingly collaborative organizations. The third reason is the skills transfer gap. Simply put, most executives do not seem to take what they learn in the classroom and apply it to their jobs. For...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
deficits, taxes, and transfer payments, depend on one's reference point/reporting procedure/language/labels. As such, they, too, represent numbers in search of concepts that provide the illusion of meaning where none exists. This paper,...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
they have the other player's product . . . . A player is your competitor if customers value your product less when they have the other player's product than when they have your product alone. 9 Intel, for example, buys raw materials and processing View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
present day. The chapter focuses on the role of business enterprises as powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism after 1848 and up the present day. It shows how multinational firms have created and co-created markets and ecosystems through their ability to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
analogical training, wherein negotiators draw analogies between different cases involving the same strategy, was shown to be effective for learning and transferring specific value-creating strategies. The current results suggest that such...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Washington University. "Now think of the magic of Avatar in 3D. In that interim period, between 1977 and 2010, the technological advances in moviemaking were unbelievable. But that was not at all matched by any change in the concession...
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- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
Michelle Dipp, MD, Ph.D, CEO and co-founder of OvaScience, had just received a buyout offer from PG Ventures, a private equity firm interested in acquiring the innovative fertility treatments company. The company's first promising fertility treatment, Autologous...
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Sean Silverthorne