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- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Abstract— The IBM PC was the first digital computer platform that was open by as a matter of strategy, not necessity. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the IBM PC as a technical system and set of organization choices in light...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, reveals broad patterns about the use of alternative financing terms. These patterns help...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
Penelope RossanoHarvard Business School Case 411-081 This case is about the establishment, growth, and direction of the Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park (Zhangjiang Park), which is located in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai. Considered to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
leading players in these clusters are multi-location firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage knowledge for competitive advantage without...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Hungary: Launching Production (A) This case examines design choices in the construction of flow lines. Flow lines are a popular way of arranging production because they are simple and inherently efficient. Equipment or workstations are...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
R. Kerr Publication:The American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Why do firms cluster near one another? We test Marshall's (1920) theories of industrial agglomeration by examining which industries locate near one another, or...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
advantage. America needs a manufacturing renaissance-for restoring itself and for the global economy as a whole. This will require major changes. Pisano and Shih show how company-level choices are key to the sustained success of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
behavior and preferences into service cost and productivity standard metrics. Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios Authors:W. Jakub Jurkek and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Review of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We develop an analytical solution to...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
injunction based on the Nuance engineers' noncompetes. The flip side of the coin is that employers can exploit these differences by locating in areas such as Silicon Valley where noncompetes do not block one's ability to recruit talent....
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
also find evidence that the behavior of lower-level managers is consistent with the incentives created by the weighting of nonfinancial performance measures in promotion decisions. Managers in locations where there is a higher ex ante...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
across space? Why does the law of gravity apply? How do the costs of transporting goods, tasks, and technologies influence firms’ decisions to separate tasks geographically and locate relative to one another? We discuss a variety of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
offer a useful approach to a positive optimal tax theory. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2425225 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 514-033 Barbara Krakow Gallery The Barbara Krakow Gallery is a successful contemporary art...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
organizations and in the right locations to deliver high-value care. The strategy for moving to a high-value health care delivery system comprises six interdependent components: organizing around patients' medical conditions rather than...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
is that fiscal risk and social risk interact in complex ways. When considering many potential projects, government cost-benefit analysis thus acquires the flavor of a portfolio choice problem. We use the model to explore how the relative...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
that the effect is predominantly driven by innovators located in the states passing the reforms. Tort laws have the strongest impact in medical fields in which the probability of facing a malpractice claim is the largest, and they do not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
relationships between this philosophy and well-being. We asked participants to answer two binary choice questions: Is life short or long? And, is life easy or hard? Across a series of studies, the majority of participants indicated that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
facilitate efficient information sharing but can also increase the possibility of favoritism. Using the investment choices of mutual funds in China, we test whether funds with close ties to their investees make timelier investment...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
core function in a business of making anything from widgets to washing machines to life-saving drugs. McDonald's sells burgers worldwide, but the way it does so has to change from location to location, adapting to the institutional voids...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
versus Posted Prices in Online Markets By: Einav, Liran, Chiara Farronato, Jonathan Levin, and Neel Sundaresan Abstract—Auctions were very popular in the early days of internet commerce, but today online sellers mostly use posted prices. We model the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
Industry Location Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Abstract A consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a...
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Martha Lagace