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- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
conversion of inventions into commercially viable innovation. As Allen Roberts points out, " lacking as we do a worthwhile VC industry the history of the last 100 years where Australia exports all its great ideas with little return... View Details
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
accelerating, even though at one time the vast majority of these jobs were thought to be relatively safe from globalization. Productivity in the global service sector is increasing as well, some of it with the introduction of new... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
Complementors: An Empirical Look at Amazon.com By: Zhu, Feng, and Qihong Liu Abstract—Platform owners sometimes enter complementors' product spaces to compete against them directly. Prior studies have offered two possible explanations for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
business is simplistic, said Reinhardt. Companies always operate based on imperfect information about their competitive arena. To succeed as a viable concern with an environmental conscience, "you have to look deeper. And look... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
When private equity (PE) firms buy a company, they typically follow a standard playbook to create value—streamlining operations, restructuring debt, changing management, and cutting costs. However, as digital technologies and artificial intelligence allow companies to... View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.' " For the past several decades Silk has devoted himself to prying open the black box, understanding the economics underlying the work advertising agencies do: the development and View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
sell these products online, in the store, or both, and how? Take lighting as an example. Home Depot asked: How do we best help customers with their lighting needs? What knowledge, products, and services do they need and in what form? What... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
very easily in some sense. Polaroid had a lot of really smart scientists, and viewed itself as the Bell Labs of photography. Q: How are some companies constrained by this framing? A: Let's continue with the Polaroid example. In translating its mindset into a View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
alluring qualities of a brand without committing to it. We propose that brand flirting is exciting and that when consumers flirt with a brand other than their typically preferred brand in the same product category, they can transfer this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
budget is only about $31 billion, and that amount is intended to cover all areas of concern in all nations, according to the World Bank Group. Furthermore, the entire gross domestic product of Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa, is... View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
hypothetical fires. A garment factory in a Third World country with minimal governmental regulatory oversight burns down, killing half of the three hundred women and children employed there; it subsequently becomes clear that the factory's owner failed repeatedly to... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the U.K. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
profitability. Using a sample of 42,337 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that corporate profitability mean reverts faster in countries where product and capital markets are more competitive. Moreover, holding constant product,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
as creating "shared value"-generating economic value in a way that also produces value for society by addressing its challenges. A shared value approach reconnects company success with social progress. Firms can do this in three distinct ways: by reconceiving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
may be a viable option. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207098 Brazil Under Lula: Off the Yellow BRIC Road Harvard Business School Case 707-031 Covers President Lula's challenges to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
being described is the savings bond program." Unfortunately, recent changes to the program have made it a less attractive, less accessible product for LMI families. In January 2003, for example, the Department of the Treasury... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
per capita and, thus, lower cost of capital. We also explain that the variation in revenues per capita was both a product of the variation in natural endowments and a commodity boom that had asymmetric effects among states. These two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
transformation. In accordance with the shift in strategy, Microsoft needed to come up with a viable go-to-market plan that would align its new commercial strategy with sales, partners, products and services,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman