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- 02 May 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Profits and Economic Development
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by Dan Schwab & Eric Werker
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
route by which new designs come into being. Talking with other researchers, I learned that there were some theoretical open questions. In the first place, user-innovation communities are pervasive—wherever users innovate, they form...
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- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
Eastern agreements. These include the opening to China after decades of mutual hostility with the United States; détente and the first nuclear arms control treaty with the Soviets at the height of the Cold War; the Paris peace treaty with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
on how he or she handles day-to-day activities with customers, managers, and front-line employees during the rest of the year. The CEO who seems measured, thoughtful, and open for three or four hours in the board room six times a year may...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Where is the Pharmacy to the World? International Regulatory Variation and Pharmaceutical Industry Location
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
competitiveness, because innovation and entrepreneurship are the source of our strength, not low-cost labor. And innovation and entrepreneurship require open minds. They require challenging the paradigm and doing something new. We started...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Trust
Should they actively promote trust with their buyers in some way? A: Absolutely. Trust is an effective way to erect barriers to entry. Once a supplier has earned the buyer's trust, the buyer is less open to working with competitors—even...
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- November 2007
- Article
Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders
By: Joseph L. Bower
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found...
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Talent and Talent Management;
Leadership Development;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Succession;
Planning
Bower, Joseph L. "Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 11 (November 2007).
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
potential players. But in case he gets stymied with all of them, he should be open to assembling a team that's more offensively oriented. Axiom #2: Be Bold And Quick When the rules of negotiation have changed drastically, should you be...
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- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
illusion that supplies would be limited. In fact, there were very few supply shortages. In both cases, the marketers anticipated demand levels pretty well. As the mountains of press coverage and strong opening day sales attest, the...
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- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
of where their schools ranked on each list, and some chose only those students who had ranked their school first. ("This meant you didn't really have five choices," Roth says.) Sometimes principals would withhold open slots,...
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- 11 Jun 2024
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024
As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some...
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by Avery Forman
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
you need to think critically about what you are doing every 100 years or so, whether you need to or not," Dean Jay Light wryly observed in opening remarks to an unprecedented campus gathering last March of business school deans,...
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- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
between savings and growth through investment. This link, however, disappears in open economy models, which is surely the relevant scenario in reality. An alternative interpretation of the relationship between savings and growth is that...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
quickly adopted these service elements, and the industry baseline success criteria shifted. Q: As the business environment has evolved, how have its leaders adapted to change, such as deregulation in 1978? A: The advent of deregulation View Details
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
no longer sitting in front of the television screen and are open to more creative options. They will increasingly go to where the audience is—social networking, video sharing, and virtual world sites. We're also seeing advertising tapping...
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- 05 Sep 2023
- Book
Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs
open the door to major success down the road. In 1993, as a doctoral student at Harvard, Edmondson conducted a study at two local hospitals, where she hypothesized that teams that worked better together would make fewer medical errors....
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by Michael Blanding
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
and to calculate metrics to compare their levels of modularity. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment in this industry, where products exist that fulfill the same function, but that have been developed using very different organizational...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
marginalized groups; The Identification and Preparation and Appraisal stages should be based on participatory identification of options and risks, comprehensive and public analyses of alternatives (including no-project options), assessment of distributional impacts and...
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by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
non-competes while in the doctoral program at Harvard Business School. "There's an open labor market," he continues. "People can leave when they want. They're not trapped at companies the way they are in Massachusetts. And that's what...
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