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  • 27 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

captivated Harvard Business School’s Raffaella Sadun for more than a decade. “The question is, Are there certain practices that are beneficial to firm performance regardless of the industry or the country in which you use them?” says... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

Confined to specialist journals and books, business history research too often lacks the impact it should have on the research and practice of business management and the social sciences, according to the editors of the newly published... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2007
  • Op-Ed

When Your Product Becomes a Commodity

squeezed. But how do you survive if you find yourself in a commoditizing industry characterized by me-too products, overcapacity, and frequent price cuts? How can you make money? 1. Decide which customers you do NOT want to serve, try... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 27 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 27

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16185   Cases & Course MaterialsMicrofin Michael Chu and Enrique KramerHarvard Business School Case 309-126 The case presents the management dilemmas of a new institution in an undeveloped microfinance market in Latin America.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 11

further identifies how the lengths over which agglomerative forces operate influence the shapes and sizes of industrial clusters; we confirm these predictions using variations across patent technology clusters. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

Abstract Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

was published in October 2019. Simply put, the issue is complicated. “The regulations under consideration are all essentially a one-size-fits-all solution,” Lerner says. “But one of the things that comes out very strongly in our research... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

Influence People, published originally in 1937, remains one of the most popular and draws in part on lessons the author learned working as a salesman for Armour. Q: You trace the world of selling in America and the salesman from the... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 21 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

2018 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business By: Gupta, Sunil Abstract—Disruption and transformation get a lot of hype and for good reason. Digital technologies have disrupted entire View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

published this week in Science suggests that the specific types of connections job-seekers make online matter in terms of their ability to secure new positions. “Your digital network can have lasting implications on how your career... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 02 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 2

possibility of platforms investing in "educating" unsophisticated users. In a competitive environment, such education is a public good among platforms and therefore the equilibrium level is lower than the one that would maximize joint View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016

virtually every county and industry in the United States. We study the impact of this reform on county-sector employment growth over the subsequent three years. Despite firms being paid just 15 days sooner, we find payroll increased 10... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business will be conducted in the future. This paper describes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2020
  • Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

more akin to an Apple, a Tesla, or a Nest, or a GoPro—where it’s a consumer product that has the foundation of sexy hardware technology and sexy software technology,” he is quoted in a book published today, Competing in the Age of AI:... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

organizational studies research. We empirically assess this assertion by analyzing studies of negotiation published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

Grupo Beta San Miguel In November 2013, Dr. Jose Pinto, head of Grupo Beta San Miguel (BSM), Mexico's largest private sugar producer, is weighing the future prospects of the Mexican sugar industry as he considers whether BSM should bid on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

third-largest state pension fund in the United States. Fuller’s 5’2” height understated her reputational stature, as audiences where she was featured anxiously awaited hearing her market outlook, innovative investment allocations, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 15, 2012
  • Article

Ensuring Quality Cancer Care: A Follow-Up Review of the Institute of Medicine’s 10 Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in America

By: Tracy E. Spinks, Heidi W. Albright, Thomas W. Feeley, Ron Walters, Thomas W. Burke, Thomas Aloia, Eduardo Bruera, Aman Buzdar, Lewis Foxhall, David Hui, Barbara Summers, Alma Rodriguez, Raymond DuBois and Kenneth I. Shine
Responding to growing concerns regarding the safety, quality, and efficacy of cancer care in the United States, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences commissioned a comprehensive review of cancer care delivery in the US health care system... View Details
Keywords: Cancer; Quality; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Quality Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; North and Central America
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  • 29 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

Academy, on Job-Hopping Toward Equity, published recently in the MIT Sloan Management Review. A changing labor landscape The difference in pay that comes from job-hopping only helps to shrink—not eliminate—a longstanding gender pay gap,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

Today Apple operates iTunes as a merchant that buys music rights from publishers and then sells it itself as it pleases to users. However, it is easily conceivable that at some point Apple may wish to transform iTunes into a two-sided... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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