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Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes
Published:January 28, 2011Paper Released:December 2010Authors:William R. Kerr and Scott Duke Kominers Executive Summary: HBS professor William R. Kerr and doctoral candidate Scott Duke Kominers...
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Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
Published:January 31, 2011Author:Carmen Nobel If you start a discussion about workplace diversity policies, don't be surprised if the hopeful topics of ethnic, racial, and gender heterogeneity lead to...
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We are always pleasantly surprised by the breadth of topics included in business research--analyzing the putting techniques of professional golfers, for example. HBS professor Douglas Fearing and...
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Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the...
Published:February 2, 2011Paper Released:December 2010Author:Malcolm S. Salter Executive Summary: In the business world, "gaming" refers to the act of subverting the intent of rules or laws without...
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What are the Most Significant Ideas in Management?
Published:February 3, 2011 At the close of the first decade of the twenty-first century, observers are both looking back at what we've accomplished so far and looking ahead to what the future brings....
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Creating the Founders' Dilemmas Course
Published:February 7, 2011Author:Carmen Nobel If Noam Wasserman's entrepreneurship elective were a start-up company, investors would be delighted with its growth. When the Harvard Business School...
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Is there life beyond Spider-Man? In the new case Marvel Enterprises, Inc., professor Anita Elberse explores key decisions facing the management team of the $2 billion superhero dynasty. Should the...
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What's Apple's Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
Published:September 8, 2011Author:James Heskett Discussions of management succession have been triggered once again in boardrooms around the world by Steve Jobs' decision to relinquish his job as CEO...
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Quantity vs. Quality: Exclusion by Platforms with Network Effects
Published:September 9, 2011Paper Released:May 2011Author:Andrei Hagiu Executive Summary: Many well-known platforms regulate access and transactions even though excluded users would be willing to pay...
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The Untold Story of 'Green' Entrepreneurs
Published:September 12, 2011Author:Sean Silverthorne In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for...
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HBS Cases: Lady Gaga Lady Gaga is a huge international star, but just a few years ago the performer and her agent, Troy Carter, were making decisions that, if the wrong ones, could have short-circuited...
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Ethnic Innovation and US Multinational Firm Activity
Published:September 14, 2011Paper Released:August 2011Authors:C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr Executive Summary: What effects do immigrant scientists and engineers have on the global activities of...
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High Ambition Leadership
Published:September 15, 2011Author:Martha Lagace What is welcome and all too rare? Leaders who care about building great institutions, not just profits. What sets these leaders apart in their practice...
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Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
Published:September 19, 2011Author:Maggie Starvish Kenneth A. Froot spends more time thinking about natural disasters than the average business school professor. In addition to the rise and fall of...
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Integrating what team members know An increasing amount of corporate work is accomplished by fluid teams, which are groups brought together to tackle a specific project, then disbanded. A challenge...
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Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances
Published:September 20, 2011Paper Released:August 2011Authors:Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Executive Summary: Uphill capital flows and global imbalances have been at...
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Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
Published:September 21, 2011Author:Kim Girard Pressure to not compete against men, rather than an innate preference for cooperation over competition, may keep women from earning what they're worth in...
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Measuring Teamwork in Health Care Settings: A Review of Survey Instruments
Published:September 22, 2011Paper Released:May 2011Authors:Melissa A. Valentine, Ingrid M. Nembhard, and Amy C. Edmondson Executive Summary: It is critical to accurately assess teamwork in health-care...
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HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
Published:September 26, 2011Author:Carmen Nobel Celebrated for both her outré style and musical prowess, the recording artist known as Lady Gaga is not only one of the world's biggest pop stars, but...
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The Yelp effect Many assume that online reviews written by customers can help or hurt retailers, but there has been little statistical proof backing up this belief. Michael Luca uses data from the...
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