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- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
obtain bandwidth larger (smaller) than s/(s+f). The paper constitutes a first step towards a general analytical foundation for scarce resource allocation in peer-to-peer file sharing networks. PDF not available. Peer-to-Peer File Sharing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
consider which, if any, aspects of BYD's operations constitute sources of sustainable competitive advantage for the company. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606139 Calloway Laboratory:...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
heroes of these large successful corporations, in spite of their dysfunctional 'leadership'." Today's leadership heroes, however, stimulated debate about just what constitutes leadership. It is an important discussion, as several...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Feb 2018
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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 stronger in the presence of...
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- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
definitions of what constitutes a "team." For this paper we collected a unique dataset from the men's major soccer league in Italy. For each match we computed the exact pay dispersion of each work team and estimated its effect...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
constitute the apex of competition by individuals and countries in hundreds of events (302 in London, to be exact), involving sports that may be very popular in one part of the world and virtually unfollowed in another. The common thread...
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- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
defined, more traditional innovations. So, while it is not impossible, it is less likely that large and successful companies will be the setting for the development of the kinds of novel combinations of business and social ideas that View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015
economist E.R.A. Seligman supported RPM as a legitimate tactic to protect small businesspeople and enhance non-price competition. The breakdown of legal and economic consensus regarding what constituted “unfair competition” allowed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
customers. Clearly, the government has quite a different perspective as to what constitutes a high-quality emissions test." Importantly, cars that fail an emissions test at one facility are allowed to be retested at another facility....
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- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
constitute an impressive 49 percent of the world's capital markets. But the job picture is bleak, with over four million people unemployed for more than 26 weeks. Productivity growth has been negative for four years. Compared to the other...
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- 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23
model, poor people give little because they expect donations to come mainly from richer individuals. In others, donations by poor individuals constitute a large fraction of donations, and this raises the incentive for poor people to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6
Publications August 2013 Cambridge University Press Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline By: Rosefielde, Steven, and Daniel Quinn Mills Abstract—Democracy and Its Elected Enemies reveals that American politicians have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23
Mongolia: The Oyu Tolgoi Deposit In 2013, Rio Tinto was expected to begin commercial shipments from Oyu Tolgoi, a copper and gold mine in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. Oyu Tolgoi was one of the last great unmined deposits in the world and, once operations were in full...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
dynamics may not converge, but if they do converge, then the limit strategy profiles constitute a subset of the Nash equilibria of the stage game. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-126.pdf Quantity vs. Quality:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
policyholders, downstream intermediaries, and other actors thus constitutes a balancing act. The context of this case is an underdeveloped market whose reputation has suffered from broker misconduct. In light of the market’s legacy issues...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
1998, the concept has been adapted and diffused to new settings that extend beyond software. While the open source community has maintained control over which software licenses can be considered "open source", little attention has been paid to the elements...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
accumulated $74 billion in debt and beginning in 2014, the island had withheld debt payments despite the commonwealth’s constitutional guarantee of its general obligation bonds. In turn, the island found itself effectively excluded from...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
received theory; and/or (3) reinforce the findings of more systematic investigations, giving greater confidence in their validity. Learning from such accounts calls for a "Bayesian" mindset, in which a given case study, of the kind produced by Stanton, View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
is potentially very high. We find that analysts pay little attention to subsidiaries about to be spun off even though these subsidiaries constitute a significant part of the parent company operations. Moreover, while the level of detail...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
associated with strategy modifications, which we term "repositioning costs," constitute a defining feature of strategic choice, which is particularly relevant to interactions involving grand strategies. Repositioning costs can...
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Sean Silverthorne