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- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
dangerous, and male-dominated—because these settings have undergone radical operational and cultural changes designed to increase safety and effectiveness. In the particular company we studied, these changes resulted in a decline in the... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Design in Online Businesses Peter A. ColesHarvard Business School Note 911-066 "Market Design in Online Businesses" characterizes the challenges entrepreneurs may face in creating a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
platform and its evolution. We describe three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices, and layer maps. We conclude by addressing a number of fundamental strategic questions suggested by a... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
very little. The 'IKEA Effect': When Labor Leads to Love (1,591) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6671.html http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-091.pdf Published: April 13, 2011 Paper Released: March 2011 Companies increasingly involve customers in the View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
feature-level entry choices. In addition, we contribute to work on dominant designs, going beyond characterizing a dominant design as a set of technological choices to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
its suspension, consistent with the importance of reputation. Larger firms and those with greater growth options were more likely to leave, also consistent with the reputation argument. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1557231 ... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
Microsoft became dominant in software for PC operating systems; and the belief by entrepreneurs and investors alike that online grocery orders to the long-gone Webvan, the largest single start-up during the Internet bubble, would become a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
building a culture based on collaboration, teamwork, and respect—and not tolerating employees who dominate or treat other employees as if they are there to serve them. Leaders sometimes inadvertently send the wrong message by excusing—or... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
implementation: (a) whether “reciprocity practitioners” can compete in a world dominated by shareholder value maximizers, and (b) if so, what asset holders and asset managers, corporate directors, and educators can do—and, in some... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
innovate in batteries. In the process, Asia became the hub for innovation in the design and manufacturing of compact, high-capacity, rechargeable, lithium ion batteries, a technology that was invented in America. This explains why Asian... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
forthcoming European Competition Journal Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Damien Geradin Abstract—Since its launch in 2007, Android has become the dominant mobile... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
disclosure of fundamentals and trading transparency. This is socially inefficient if a large fraction of market participants are speculators, and hedgers have low processing costs. But in these circumstances, forbidding hedgers’ access to the market may View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
many industries. Extant papers largely assume that platforms dominate the pricing decision, whereas in practice, prices in business-to-business transactions are often determined by a bargaining process. We study how the relative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Mercadal “We use a detailed dataset on electricity transactions to investigate the impact of market-based deregulation in the context of the United States electricity sector. We find that the increase in markups dominates despite modest... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
Public Sector seminar series, which runs through May, is designed to induce lively conversation, build a community of scholars, and create a research agenda exploring the possible role of the private sector in shaping the institutions of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
First, it may be more helpful to think about the purposes of the corporation, or at least to ask the question that way—in the plural—even if ultimately one purpose must be deemed preeminent. Second, corporations are instruments designed... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
magazine covers, which were dominated by the smiling faces of people who had "made it." Boy, they sure seemed happy! As a student, I was regularly assessed, tested, graded, and otherwise measured against "objective"... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
long-term innovation output rather than for private benefits. Code Contingencies: Designing Monitoring Regimes to Promote Improvement in Supply Chain Working Conditions By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
nearly 12 percent that day, a loss of $2 billion in market cap. The poor results were attributed to the aggressive rollout of 144 new "centricity" stores—revamped retail formats featuring a customer-centric operating model View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
especially when they don’t have any knowledge of a subject. Designating a common enemy has always been an efficient way at uniting people. It also typically leads to scapegoating. Politicians’ role should be to educate the people and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff