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- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
as brand ambassadors, thought leaders, and storytellers. During a time of widespread unemployment and economic uncertainty, the people who have jobs are talking a lot about how their companies are handling the crisis and the transition to... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
At the start of the pandemic, the uncertainty primarily concerned health issues—the diffusion of the virus and its effective threat. As the virus expanded from China to other countries, the uncertainty extended to the economic domain. For... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
economic life. Chandler always stressed the importance of knowledge and learning inside organizations, which preceded more recent notions of the knowledge company or organizational learning. He was also a model intellectual, a scholar's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
productive. The authors have studied when 161 countries adopted 104 technologies over the past 200 years, and they conclude that profound economic advantages-as measured by per capita income-accrue to early adopters of technology. Read... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
between bundling and indirect network effects, we find that they act as substitute strategies, with a lower relative effectiveness for bundling when network effects are stronger. 2013 pub From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 30 May 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?
column. Addressing that question, David Wittenberg presented the argument for the negative when he commented that, “That idea (that government acquires an ownership interest in IP created within its borders) is inimical to our legal and View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
very little attention to the impact of organizations on society. We suggest that the study of organizations could be even stronger if the increasing focus on economic performance were accompanied by... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
dovetailed nicely with my role as senior associate dean for Planning and University Affairs. Q: It would seem that the timing was perfect given the many consumer credit and debt issues that played key roles in the economic crisis that hit... View Details
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
reviews, and three books, including the brilliant Theory of Economic Development (1911; English translation, 1934).1 Schumpeter struggled mightily with the research and writing of Business Cycles. As he told his friend and fellow cycle... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
decades academic historians devoted almost no attention to businesses as such, as they focused on the role of culture, race, gender, and religion in historical developments. Mainstream historians, Beckert recently observed, "largely... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
are presently clustered in Eastern and Central Europe. But it is Slovakia—with its 19 percent flat rate—that has captured the world's attention of late, says HBS professor Laura Alfaro. Why? What are the goals and complexities of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
Debora L. Spar's research in Africa has looked at the diamond industry, the AIDS crisis, and the democratization of South Africa since apartheid. Now she has turned her attention to Botswana, where an era of sustained growth has been... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
unraveling of social relations, in turn, creates pressures for the state to step in as an economic intermediary. We need to pay more attention to domestic consumer market regulation as a source of national... View Details
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
is crucial to online success. A recent research paper offers insights that carry unexpected implications for advertisers or anyone else trying to capture that attention. The Empirical Economics of Online View Details
- 17 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities
question is: are you going to raise rates or cut them?" Rajan said at the beginning of his lecture. "The answer is: I'm not going to tell you. But what I will talk about is the state of the Indian economy." Rajan said that many are quick to blame India's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
strategy that was explicitly based on the perceived strengths and weaknesses of its competitor, Ford.2 In the 1930s, Chester Barnard, a top executive with AT&T, argued that managers should pay especially close attention to... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
driving the wealth of nations. It also demonstrates that there has never been a single model for successful or unsuccessful capitalism. To give only one example, business and economic historians have often taken a skeptical view of the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
As economic turmoil continues, many companies are reconsidering their strategies with an eye toward going lean and slashing prices. And that might work for a few companies—but very few. Instead, companies should compete "on the basis... View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
Working Papers Direct versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-term Consequences (revised) Author: Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under direct British colonial rule with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace