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- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
would not be achieved even if the product offered a payout ratio comparable to U.S. insurance contracts. We present evidence suggesting that lack of trust, liquidity constraints, and limited salience are significant non-price frictions...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources...
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Advocating for Best Practices on Tech Boards - Blog: RGE Report
department at Intel Corp. in the late 1990s when she realized her product was headed for trouble. The company didn’t have the graphics capability that her overdrive upgrade processor needed. Pinpointing the problem was easier than...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
team, novel biotechnology that extends cassava’s shelf life from three days to 18 months. The process transforms the cassava tuber into nutritious food products that provide alternatives to wheat flour. The first View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
past. Now the big strikes lie elsewhere. The wildcatters of today travel the globe from Angola to Kazakhstan to the deep waters off the coast of Brazil in search of "elephant fields" with flow rates measuring in the thousands of barrels...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A Call to Innovation
much as 80 percent of gross domestic product flows from the introduction of new technologies. But at the end of the day (and that end may be arriving sooner rather than later, the book suggests), Kao...
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- 29 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
3 Insights from My First Year at HBS
(and everyone there is to meet) it’s no wonder that HBS students can suffer from FOMO. Here’s a little snapshot of what I got up to this year. I read and discussed 250+ case studies with 94 section-mates I built 10+ Discounted Cash Flow...
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- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
evaluate policies that change incentives for entry into self-employment. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51676 Short-Termism and Capital Flows By: Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
period. Stock indexes can transform longstanding behavior via nonpecuniary channels. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53030 Machine Learning and Human Capital: Experimental Evidence on Productivity...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
Summing Up Hard-wiring Performance Is Great In Concept...but.... The responses to the concept of promising and delivering results rather than selling products or services are in, and you've agreed that hard-wiring performance is a winning...
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by James Heskett
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
portfolio of promising mid-range ideas driven by designated teams. At the bottom of the pyramid are early-stage ideas or incremental innovations that permit continuous improvement. Influence flows from top to bottom—the big bets encourage...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
upstream capital flows and global imbalances. Specifically, we find i) international net private capital flows (inflows minus outflows of private capital) are positively correlated with countries' View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
cracks began to appear in its carefully crafted production plan. The first order of modular homes languished on the assembly line for months as Greentech struggled to resolve a number of serious production-control issues. Stuntz now has...
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- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Working PapersGray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing (revised) Authors:Romana Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels, for instance when...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
native knew an icon—and a challenge—when he saw one. In 2009 he stepped into the role of managing director, Harley-Davidson India. Entering the Indian market had plenty of challenges related to tariffs, accessibility, and brand perception, and also required a focus on...
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- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
the making of the global world over the last two centuries. Individual entrepreneurs and managers invented new products and shaped consumer demand. Firms created and diffused technologies and products, alongside the values in which they...
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- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era
still worth my time? But while much is changing in business, a lot of the challenges still involve basic block-and-tackle work around product development, sales, and distribution. Also of major importance: hiring, training, motivating,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
Working PapersProduct Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges Are the Benefits Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard Abstract The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
Investment Promote Growth? By: Alfaro, Laura Abstract—Among the prominent economic trends in recent decades is the exponential increase in flows of goods and capital driven by technological progress and a falling number of restrictions. A...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
companies grappling with the familiar (yet complex) questions that confront any organization trying to do business across borders. According to Collis, every strategic choice that multinationals face falls into one of the following four buckets: What View Details
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by Julia Hanna