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- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
overview of key issues that Lebowitz and his team must consider as they plan for the firm's growth—how to raise capital, how to gauge the optimal size for the company, and how to manage an expanding staff. A major highlight of the case is...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
metrics. Unfortunately, the effects of different types of coupling are somewhat hard to distinguish. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52349 Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
franca, or shared language, or in a local language-does not guarantee high performance. Recruiters may favor fluency over other capabilities. They may rely on external hires with language skills rather than grooming internal candidates with the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
assignment of termination and broad licensing rights to the financing firm occurs in contractually difficult environments in which there is no specifiable lead product candidate. We also analyze how the contractual design varies with the R&D firm's financial...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
the heterogeneous payment requirements across the multiple payers and health plans contracting with the academic health center. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54127 March–April 2018 Harvard Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Patent and Trademark Office, which has developed both machine learning and Boolean search technologies, we hypothesize that absorptive capacity from skill-technology matches will result in higher productivity, and these effects will be...
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- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
capacity to pay. We use a newly created database with state-level fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that in Brazilian states that exported commodities that were in high in demand (e.g., rubber...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
major highway system, the North-South East-West corridor (NS-EW). Improvements for portions of the NS-EW system were planned to occur at the same time as GQ but were subsequently delayed. Additional tests show that the GQ project's effect...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
among other things. But very few governments today have the financial means or the political capacity to do this on a huge scale. A second approach is to expect governments to restrict demand via, say, a global carbon tax plus...
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- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
self-control) in one domain subsequently reduces one's capacity to regulate behavior in other domains. One reason is that people have limited self-regulatory resources, and self-regulatory failure occurs when these resources become...
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- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
enterprises and their capacity to pursue joint social and financial goals over time. I start by discussing how exposure to diverse organizational contexts and gender affect the founding of social enterprises before presenting the distinct...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
returned to Apple, he pulled back on previous plans to license the Mac OS. A: Right, he killed it. And today the iPod is still the BMW strategy of the MP3 player business. So the question becomes: will Apple sell the iPod to a broader...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
the current plan are here.) Transcript edited for length and clarity. Sean Silverthorne: Why should citizens be interested in tax reform beyond what it means for their tax bill on April 15? Matthew Weinzierl: I think of taxes as the most...
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by Sean Silverthorne