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Globalization - Faculty & Research
democracy being a substitute for economic IGOs, but a complement for social and cultural IGOs. July 2013 Article Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity By: C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr This paper studies the impact... View Details
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
substitute that judgment with curiosity, and wonder why someone might think differently about an issue, that is when we learn. So we can start building inclusion by making people realize that their worldview is not necessarily the right... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
competitors in geographically fragmented industries; to extend into new products or markets; as a substitute for R&D; and to exploit eroding industry boundaries by inventing an industry. Despite the massive number of books and... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
have shared a common narrative. It begins with strong investor demand for a set pattern of cash flows being met by seemingly substitute securities engineered by intermediaries, which is then followed by the realization of an improbable... View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 08 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?
whether a digital subscription was a substitute for or complement to the print subscription. When a company saw increased print subscriptions after creating a paywall, the paywall was found to have a positive spillover effect on print... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
People don’t like to take advice from machines. “There’s a mistrust in algorithms. People seem to view them as a cheap substitute for human judgment,” Yeomans says. His team probed this skepticism in a second study, where again algorithms... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 2012
- Discussion Paper
Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades
By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano
Labor productivity growth in Singapore that has grown at a rate of over 3.0 percent per year since 1970s considerably slowed down to 0.5 percent on average per annum in the latter half of the 2000s. The purpose of this paper is to ask, first, to what extent Singapore’s... View Details
Nomura, Koji, and Tomomichi Amano. "Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades." Discussion Paper, Keio Economic Observatory, 2012.
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
but can benefit from more information about their neighborhood spots. "Yelp is somewhat of a substitute for traditional forms of reputation," says Luca. "People are not using Yelp to find out about McDonald's." But... View Details
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
what is called the Invariant Proportion of Substitution (IPS) property, which implies that the proportion of demand generated by taking business away from a competitor is the same, no matter which marketing activity is used. "These... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Openings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
mini-summaries during transitions can provide takeaways that complement or substitute for elements in the closing. Instructors should consider the connections among these core elements of the class session when preparing teaching plans. A... View Details
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
initiatives for the greatest business impact. Highlights The Value Stick Value Creation at Best Buy Discerning Complements from Substitutes Show Hide Details Modules Creating Value for Customers Adding Value Through Complements Competing... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
we didn't know, and what our research suggests, is that stress may also contribute to a social disease—namely, unethical behavior. Thus, the trick is to figure out ways to reduce stress. If we can substitute an alternative to cheating... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
suggests a complementary relationship, commenting that, while no substitute for street smarts, the MBA provides "tools and strategic understanding skills that accelerate an average human being's learning curve." Will the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
takes a different set of individuals, a different set of infrastructure circumstances to create that scenario. We need good scholarship to verify the idea that there is a potential substitution between caring for sick people from England... View Details
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By: Roberto Verganti
Roberto’s research focuses on how to create innovations that are meaningful for people, for society, and for their creators. He explores how leaders and organizations generate radically new visions, and make those visions come real. His studies lie at the intersection... View Details
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
teammates engage with each other to connect, network, create? Personal experiences varied. Jacob Navon said that, “ one cannot substitute f2f when it comes to building culture and mentoring new hires Besides, WFH (work from home) is a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
only added three substitutions to his roster, 40 percent fewer changes than his fellow turnaround coaches made that season. Only one of eight coaching positions changed when a new assistant coach replaced the departing brother of the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
curiosity and judgment can’t coexist; you’re either in one mode or the other. When we see things that are different—people who are different, views that are different from our own—we are quick to judge them. But when we substitute that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
outside base module and the proprietary firm's open extensions could result in a stronger free competitor. So the firm is more likely to open substitute modules, rather than complementary ones, to the outside OS project. We do find that... View Details