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- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
or form networks. Firms make complementary choices when determining production inputs, entering related markets, and strategic mergers. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/banand/ComplementaryChoices.pdf August 2013 Relations...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
available for download Banking Deregulation, Financial Constraints, and Entrepreneurship Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We study how U.S. branch banking deregulations affected the entry of new firms in the non-financial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
April 2016 Review of Economic Studies Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring By: Stanton, Christopher, and Catherine Thomas Abstract—Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
the United States as part of its own self-contained region. Regional strategies can take a long time to implement. Leading-edge companies are starting to grapple with these definitional issues. For example, firms in sectors as diverse as...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
size of stock markets across countries and on the ownership structure of railways and other companies in France. In one of his books he argues that France was the largest "financial democracy" in the world, because of the large...
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- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources...
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- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
company's commitment to sustainability mean that firms that ignore this do so at their own risk. BMW Group has been a leader in recognizing this. Several years ago, it issued a Sustainable Value Report detailing energy consumed, water...
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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And the top consulting (or law) View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
incentives to invest in the face of potential holdup problems and also with the proposition that exclusive arrangements lead firms to seek contingent control rights to avoid lock-in when environmental uncertainty is high. Private Equity...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
the only dedicated forest equipment company of size that remained in a consolidating industry. Competitors included global giants such as John Deere and Komatsu. Since his arrival at Ponsse in 2004, CEO Arto Tiitinen had focused the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
Diversification By: Kuppuswamy, Venkat, George Serafeim, and Belén Villalonga Abstract—Using a large sample of diversified firms from 38 countries we investigate the influence of several national-level institutional factors or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
the size and formality of the venue and level of hierarchy present, also matter, as does the degree of demographic similarity between the speaker and the intended target of his or her communication. Q: Why are we so hesitant to take the...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
leaders must have are similar to those that are important for all general managers—effective communication, the analytic ability to size up a situation quickly, skills of reflection and concentration, and the ability to inspire others and...
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- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
Throughout history salespeople have come in all sizes and stripes—peddlers, drummers, canvassers, agents, sales reps, and of course the iconic door-to-door salesman. But it's only been relatively recently that historians have focused...
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- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
fundamental firm value, which is gradually revealed into prices. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51971 December 2016 Harvard Business Review Health Care Needs Real Competition By: Dafny, Leemore S., and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas where seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to pay dividends, initiate dividends, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
commoditized. As consumers, we see this in the ever-decreasing retail selling price of flat panel TVs. The screen sizes get bigger, the resolution moves from HD to Ultra HD to 4K, and the prices keep dropping. This happens in spite of the...
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- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
once a very secretive industry, to take increasingly public stances on the risk of human-induced climate change and the need to take urgent action to contain it. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52170 November 2016 Management Science...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
following increased service quality (price) competition only when the incumbent offers high (low) quality service relative to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
his company, and a discussion of recent efforts by Abrahams to break free of constraints that have limited the size and revenue-generating ability of Improbable Research for many years. Among those efforts are a decision to distribute...
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Martha Lagace