Potential - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

outcome with potentially significant positive results. This change will allow debtors and creditors alike to better understand and acknowledge the risk inherent in sovereign debt lending. If you lend to Argentina, you are dealing with... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

potential for competitive advantage associated with data analytics. This all raises many questions. Will the age of big data eliminate most or all uncertainty from business decisions for those most able to make effective use of "all the... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

06 Jan 2011
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How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

view," but to ask how, if at all, organizations can or should be defended against the response from Anonymous? Its actions, triggered by the attacks on Wikileaks, hinted at a future of everything from Internet mischief (a la Anonymous) to cyber warfare, with... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

13 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508023 Identifying and Exploiting the Right Entrepreneurial Opportunity...For You Harvard Business School Case 808-043 This note provides an analytical framework for assessing View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

disclosures hit the headlines. For this reason, it is perhaps a good time to solicit creative ideas about how leading business schools that mint a high proportion of senior executives in large organizations can identify and weed out candidates whose personal values... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

House building a business that trains people and stands by its values. The bakery storefront is also a gateway to potential volunteers and donors and allows Haley House to get its message out. Not that it's all been a cakewalk. Ekstrom... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

they're likely to stand up against social, economic, and technological changes can help a group home in on the final stages of developing a new idea. Leonard and Swap's book is a challenge to business leaders to go forth and maximize the creative View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

13 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

history is chockablock with companies whose potentially risky bets paid off in the long term. "Take DuPont's investment in nylon," she says. "They spent many years stabilizing the process and learning to scale it up. And of course once... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

25 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

the promise to significantly change how we buy and pay for goods and service in the future. Could you elaborate on this? What impact do software platforms have for the consumer on the street? A: Software platforms are universal in nature because they can View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

26 Sep 2024
HBS Case

If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

networks and emergent behavior, Badaracco proposes a roadmap for thinking about ethical ways to delegate decisions to machines. “It’s a potentially catastrophic mistake, with technology like this, to have that mentality.” Ask stupid... View Details

Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology

16 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

up-and-coming areas that could improve even more with a little boost, as well as in stagnating areas that could use more investment. By picking up nuances on a street-by-street basis, the method could allow planners and developers to target efforts with much more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

things, (we) can be a source of ideas in the world." Potential Inquiry Henderson identified two broad areas of inquiry to consider. First, she suggested it might be worth exploring the potential role of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

institutionalize the idea of regular face time between employees and their managers once-removed (that) high potentials 'suddenly appear' So in the case of the board, they should be accountable for assessing View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

Agarwal Abstract—Machine learning process technologies usher new questions regarding their potential complementarity with existing human capital. Within the context of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office examination process, our... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

potential adverse event once the test-statistic crosses a stopping boundary. We employ asymptotic analysis that assumes a large number of observations in a given window of time to show how to compute the stopping boundary by solving a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

the potential for non-traditional gender role models to gradually erode gender inequality in homes and labor markets. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49311 Customers and Investors: A Framework for... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and capabilities influence billions of dollars of "socially responsible" investments as well as some consumers, activists, and potential... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

provider, or your wind provider.” It stands to reason, adds Cohen, that due to their deep expertise and history in the energy sector, these companies might be uniquely positioned to develop the renewable energy solutions we need to slow and View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

23 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

talking with industry experts and reading the literature, Luo and Galasso found that companies had known for a long time about the potential for dose-reducing technology, but had not developed it due to lack of demand. “It seems that the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

potential for ecommerce growth in the country which relies (on) a lot of machine learning and AI the growth rate through the new economy prospects is just starting to take off here in Bangladesh.” Jacob Navon added, “Is the New Economy... View Details