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- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
and to calculate metrics to compare their levels of modularity. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment in this industry, where products exist that fulfill the same function, but that have been developed using very different...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
a company to develop new productivity software was a complete non-starter. No sane VC would or should fund a venture to compete with the Microsoft monopoly." Even though his project is in the early...
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by Mallory Stark
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
to the company to the economy as a whole—creativity is something that can be created and fostered if you have the right guidance and incentives. Think of the following insights and techniques, gleaned from the research of six HBS...
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by Michael Blanding
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
integration across multiple offices, ancillary businesses, early adoption of financial reporting software, and consensus-based decision making. The firm was proud of its corporate culture and sought to maintain it as it grew, bringing in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
you wanted to attract more! Q: In the late 1980s and early 1990s, many developing countries sought outside infrastructure investments and even privatization of these operations. These initiatives were encouraged by world development...
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- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
other hand, a decision to sell BP's petrochemical business at some stage was said to have been taken more easily knowing investors had been supportive of such a divestiture for a long time. So for the question of where exactly to set the...
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- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
year. Early research shows that students in schools led by NLNS principals are outperforming their peers, but Fenton remains driven by his vision of a system-wide, scalable model for education reform that...
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- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
the Venture Hacks blog as a resource for founders looking for funding prior to seeking venture capital. The list quickly evolved into AngelList, a separate matchmaking platform for founders and investors to make View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
the early years of the 21st century. From a state-owned enterprise earning 97% of its revenue from television sets and other analog consumer electronics, Thomson had become a publicly traded company providing digital video services and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
development organizations, involved in both research and program design and delivery. This case explores CCL's approach to leadership and management education for executives and presents some of the challenges the CCL faces as many...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that newfound status on the strength of market-stabilizing structural changes that took root after the last crash. "Everything we do today grew out of the dark days...
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- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
examine how well the most widely used ratings—those of Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini Research & Analytics (KLD)—provide transparency about past and likely future environmental performance. We find KLD "concern" ratings to be...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
imprints: the founder's own, direct work experience, as well as the indirect influence of parental work experiences and professional education. Our findings further suggest that the effects of direct imprinting are strongest from the View Details
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Anna Secino
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
something for me." [Staples' head Thomas G.] Stemberg agreed to back him in exploring new businesses. Each ultimately invested $250,000 in a partnership to fund research on dry cleaning, an industry...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-043.pdf An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors:Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
turned out, though, that Intel's revenues from memory were by this time only 4 percent of total sales. Intel's lower-level managers had already exited the business. What Intel hadn't done was to shut down the flow of research View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
book, Who Killed Health Care? We asked Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School, to discuss her latest work and her more than 30 years of research in the health care...
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- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
under historical market conditions, compared to simulated losses of $280 billion in the absence of equity extractions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-023.pdf Implications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
such period on record. Significant financial failures returned to the marketplace in the late 1980s with the savings and loan crisis, followed by a rash of bank failures in the early 1990s that forced the government to recapitalize the...
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