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- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
right approach.” In the new working paper The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment, Teixeira and HBS Assistant Professor Donald Ngwe propose that online stores take a page... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Summing Up When Does Friction Trump Scale in the Corporate Life Cycle? This month's column raised the issue of size limits on an organization's ability to compete In today's global economy. The specific case in point was Walmart and... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- News
DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground
the team to really win. In the beginning, some people didn’t like it when I used that phrase because they felt that friction is a negative thing, and they didn’t want to have any friction with their... View Details
- Web
Ken Peterson | About
the scholar and the research content they need for their scholarship or teaching. Before joining the Harvard Business School, he held several library leadership roles at both public and private institutions where his efforts focused on reducing the View Details
- Portrait Project
Brian Sykes
Syringe needles lining the sidewalk. I’m ashamed, yet I know these words are true. When people hear I grew up in SF, they automatically assume my childhood consisted of immense privilege. Million-dollar mansions and fancy jobs in tech. In reality, it consisted of... View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
quick, and (3) learn and adapt. Axiom #1: Make A Bump Plan Military strategist Carl von Clausewitz coined the term friction, "the force that makes the apparently easy so difficult." Friction doesn't just refer to adverse weather... View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
Specifically, we explore whether the presence of frictions in a country's capital markets, labor markets, and product markets affect the excess value of diversified firms. We find that the value of diversified firms relative to their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2019
- News
Turning Around Tesco
thing is if there is friction at the border.” Britain imports half the food it eats; a Spanish lettuce that lingers at the border for even two days has a much-diminished shelf life, notes Lewis, who nonetheless seems ready to accept any... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)
use digital tools to take the friction out of bringing together a diverse set of people to co-create and iterate. That became OpenIDEO. We now have a couple hundred thousand people collaborating online for the social good. Most businesses... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
and unequal, there is little direct evidence on the magnitude and sources of these frictions. We conduct a field experiment with 752 employees at a multibillion-dollar corporation to address these questions. We provide evidence of significant View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback
part of the joy of shopping at places like Marshalls or T.J.Maxx or the old Filene’s Basement is the idea of hunting for a bargain. That friction is designed to make you feel like you’ve conquered something, and we’re seeing companies... View Details
- Student-Profile
Yueran Ma
growing up also had a major influence on my interests in finance. I travelled with my family in China, and everywhere I saw firms and entrepreneurs struggling to raise funding as the financial system was riddled with frictions and... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
to strategically delay providing the service. Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract— An extensive literature on venture capital has studied asymmetric information and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52552 Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—An extensive literature on venture capital has studied asymmetric information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
as fast and easy and convenient for you to get the products that you need? But part of the joy of shopping at places like Marshalls or T.J.Maxx or the old Filene’s Basement is the idea of hunting for a bargain. That friction is designed... View Details
- Web
Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
passion for making an impact through participation in these ventures. The primary objective of this course is to enable students to holistically understand and evaluate tough tech ventures at the various stages of their development, identify specific commercialization... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
INK: Big News for Small Business
spur a powerful transformation in access and opportunity. If we can foster an environment where innovation comes together with capital markets and lending and reduces the barriers and frictions in small business lending, we can help this... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
brilliant book, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, about successful executives hitting points of friction as they grow, requiring changes in their behavior in order to continue to succeed. I often coach my entrepreneurs to assess... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
the incentives of brokers, and brokers price discriminate based on a consumer's level of sophistication. The model estimates indicate that costly search is a key friction in retail financial markets, but the effects of search costs are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Earth Day 2022 with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative
my skills and experience to reduce the friction that tough-tech ideas face on their path to scale and bring new technologies to the world, both as an investor and operator. I’m a technologist at heart, but if there's one realization that... View Details