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- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
impact. However, although this practice is generally lauded as a win-win for business and the environment, the firm may actually increase emissions if it acts to maximize profit because it would increase production to leverage the competitive View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
private-sector innovations. Second, we take advantage of idiosyncratic rigidities in the rules governing NIH peer review to generate exogenous variation in funding across research areas. Our results show that NIH funding spurs the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information technology investments, I find that a high net value of adaptation is strongly associated with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
controlled, hierarchical organization, which would mirror the buildings' design structure, the Manchester City Council created a "commons organization," and chose to share decision-rights with local claimants. Each school's...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
research gives the field an advantage over other disciplines and will allow us to answer big questions, such as, "What explains the success and failure of entrepreneurs?" If business historians invest in reestablishing the...
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
provided-physician visits, hospitalizations, procedures, and tests-to the patient outcomes achieved. And we must replace today's fragmented system, in which every local provider offers a full range of services, with a system in which...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
contracting structure has important strategic implications. Preferring Balanced vs. Advantageous Peace Agreements: A Study of Israeli Attitudes Towards a Two-State Solution Authors:Deepak Malhotra and Jeremy Ginges Publication:Judgment...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
particular culture. The strengths of any culture often tend to be the underbelly of the culture as well. If you're dealing with a patriarchal, hierarchical culture the advantage is that life is highly regulated which can keep the next...
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by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
stockholder gave them privileged access to bank finance. When bank lending practices changed in the middle of the century, this access-to-credit advantage associated with owning bank stock largely disappeared. Third, investors typically...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
from what it promises to do. Book: http://www.people.hbs.edu/jwulf/CMR_May.pdf Working PapersBusiness Model Evaluation: Quantifying Walmart's Sources of Advantage Authors:Humberto Brea-Solis, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Emili...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
business-government relationships very concrete and personal by examining business and government officials at a local level. Hartmut Berghoff accomplished just such a study of Hohner, the harmonica maker. I chose Thyssen & Co....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
associated with anti-dumping petitions among upstream companies. It also weakens downstream companies lobbying in favor of the general protection of highly integrated conglomerates. In the steel industry, by contrast, national industrial policy fails to weaken View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
firms and nascent industries—our discovery opens several new avenues for research in entrepreneurship and organizational learning. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52337 Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using...
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
paper quantifies anecdotal evidence that Chinese firms are more diversified than similar firms in other countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-007.pdf Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
commercials, for example, have traditionally gone together—the former creating value for the consumer, the latter capturing it for the company. When TiVo came along, it allowed viewers to record the shows they wanted without all of those annoying ads. Another early...
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by Michael Blanding
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
headquarters to local plant managers in almost 4,000 firms in the United States, Europe, and Asia. We find that firms headquartered in high trust regions are more likely to decentralize, with trust accounting for about half of the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
gross margin for retailers using historical data. We show that sales forecasts from this model are more accurate than consensus forecasts from equity analysts. Further, the residuals from this model for one fiscal year are used to predict retailers for whom the...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
improvements will be exhibited by those shamed firms that face lower-cost opportunities to improve—-and thus are particularly able to respond. We take advantage of a natural experiment, when a major social rating agency expanded the scope...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
capabilities that can be studied via the algorithmic and computational properties of the problems they are meant to solve and the efficiency and reliability by which they search a solution space. It points to several new components of competitive View Details
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Sean Silverthorne