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- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
that exposure to informational advertising can decrease the consumer's tendency to purchase the promoted product. The structural estimates imply that an exposure to a single advertisement decreases the consumer's probability of not choosing her best alternative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
who are focused on their existing and most profitable markets and don't see the threat coming from below. Exhibit A: The death of Digital Equipment Corp., which, along with a string of other minicomputer firms, was taken down by the PC... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
characterizes the financial world. They also overlook the role of natural selection. To be sure, natural selection in the financial world is not exactly analogous to the processes first described by Darwin and elaborated on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate
starting with Levitt's prediction of a global marketplace ruled by standardized products sold at low prices. "Everyone says the article is wrong, and everyone reads it twenty years later. Why?" asked Abdelal. Tedlow portrayed... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
Professor Mukti Khaire's challenge to management students is lofty, even by Harvard MBA standards. Don't just change the way people live, change the way they think. Change culture. In her new elective course, Creative High-Impact... View Details
- 31 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water
climate-controlled vaults. How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind People who bring personal shopping bags to the grocery store to help the environment are more likely to buy organic items—but also to treat themselves to ice cream and cookies, according to new research... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?
Employers Favor MenWhy are women discriminated against in hiring decisions? The reason is subtle. Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Job Ads The book What Works: Gender Equality by Design, discusses how organizations can leverage... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
HBS Working Knowledge recently celebrated its tenth birthday, and we mark the occasion by looking back and looking forward. We've asked HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and a number of faculty to both remark on what they view as the most significant... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
written by Harvard Business School faculty—along with links to the full text of those papers. Here are the five most downloaded working papers of 2018: Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality While corporate tax cuts increase... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive InnovationChristensen's classic article from 2003 about the six keys to creating new-growth businesses. The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change Every successful social movement... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2019
- Book
These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway
social change has been at the center of many entrepreneurial efforts by Harvard Business School alumni. Howard Stevenson discusses their pragmatic approaches to overcoming long odds. Unlocking the Customer Value Chain Technology doesn't... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
almost decade of his life, certainly during the Nazi period, he was literally a hunted child. His mother took him away from Budapest. They hid out in a cellar in a hovel in a suburb of Budapest called Kobanya, where his mother was raped View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
'86). She is global marketing director at Baxter Healthcare. She recalled that while living in the United Kingdom, her children started a lemonade stand but few potential customers even gave it a second glance. In the U.S., she said, you would be able to count on... View Details
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Publications September 2014 Cambridge University Press Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare By: Trumbull, Gunnar Abstract—Why did America embrace consumer credit over the course of the twentieth century, when most other countries did not? How... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
virtually all the gains to be had go to those that create an ownership culture, by building in participative management and helping employees learn to think and act like owners. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
employees sit through training and attest that they understand the rules, but failing to assess the effectiveness of their compliance programs, or doing so with faulty metrics. The authors explain how we reached this sorry state—and how we can remedy it. Firms should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
problem when they first emerged but was ultimately overcome by changes in the innovation ecosystem. However, incumbents in the oil and power sector are different in two respects. First, they are producing a commodity and hence face little... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
Transparency, the concept if not the reality, is all the rage in business circles. If you knew why a company charged a certain price for a product, would you be more willing to pay it? If your boss confessed her managerial screw-ups, would you feel more comfortable... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2017
- Book