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- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
friendly, and you can get tickets, then the Games will probably enhance their image” "The Olympics is the most significant sports-based event in the world," says Stephen A. Greyser, professor emeritus in the Marketing unit at Harvard...
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- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In...
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- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
paper was written by Nikhil Naik, a Prize Fellow at Harvard University; Scott Duke Kominers, the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor; Edward L. Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at...
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- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
“There are many more private equity firms than in the past, so it’s becoming difficult for them to generate returns and add value,” says Brian Baik, an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School....
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- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,...
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- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
interest in enforcing consistency in order to build their brands. On the other, their business models are predicated on the ability to empower professionals to deliver services independently. The key word to understanding this brave new world is "control," says Andrei...
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- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
strictly an American phenomenon. “Voter turnout has been declining in many Western democracies over the past decades,” says Vincent Pons, assistant professor at Harvard Business School in the Business, Government, and the International...
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- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
the question Harvard Business School Associate Professor Julie Battilana and doctoral candidate Matthew Lee ask in a new working paper, How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Imprinting of Individuals and Hybrid Social Ventures. "It's much harder...
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- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
the richest breeding grounds for coding superstars: the hackathon. These high-pressure weekend events of furious engineering can be an incredible environment for diffusion of knowledge, argues Andy Wu, an assistant professor in the...
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- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
medical radiation safety. "The demand shock caused by an accident could actually be good news for companies." “There was suddenly a huge spike in the public’s attention on medical radiation risk,” says Hong Luo, James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Associate...
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- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
categorize the world, emphasizing some values or activities over others. In other words, languages shape the way people think. After hearing about one such theory from visiting doctoral student Hao Liang from Tilburg University, Harvard Business School Associate View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
competitive with someone who is personally advising you, and at a fraction of the cost,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business School. Viceira explores...
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- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
immigrants are responsible for a lot of great companies,” says William Kerr, the Dmitri V. D’Arbeloff — MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “After all, they argue, [Google founder] Sergey...
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by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
You don’t know what you don’t know—and almost by definition new entrepreneurial ventures need a helping hand from established partners if they hope to succeed. “Startups suffer from what researchers call ‘liability of newness,’” says Harvard Business School Assistant...
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- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
a significant number of non-practicing entities acquire patents for the sole purpose of coercing companies, mostly technology firms, into paying licensing or settlement fees (whether justified or not). Are NPEs friend or foe? New research coauthored by Lauren H. Cohen,...
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- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
the amount of nicotine they inhale, gradually weaning themselves off their addiction if they choose. “The value proposition of e-cigarettes is clear” "The value proposition of e-cigarettes is clear," says John A. Quelch, Charles Edward Wilson View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
core activities in any business. Without a good customer acquisition process, you can’t grow.” A professor at Harvard Business School for 11 years, Cespedes left for an equal time to run a firm, where he learned firsthand the importance...
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by Michael Blanding
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
the first patent for the medical use of the herb. “This knowledge had been locked in their home country for decades, if not centuries, and now these skilled ethnic migrants were able to transfer the knowledge here,” says Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury, assistant View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
occurred. “As the decades of research on virtual work would have predicted, productivity has gone up for many organizations,” says Tsedal Neeley, the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who has...
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by Michael Blanding
- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
"It's so appealing on the surface to think that the best way to approach race is to pretend that it doesn't exist," says behavioral psychologist Michael I. Norton, an associate professor at Harvard Business...
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by Carmen Nobel