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  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

stock prices had been reached. Despite Fisher's poor prediction on that occasion, he played a neglected, but significant role in the growth of the forecasting industry and in the rise of a class of early business analysts. An Interdisciplinary View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 22

96 globally distributed members in six software development teams, we propose a model that captures how asymmetries in language fluency contribute to an us vs. them dynamic so common in global teams. Faultlines, formed along the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

instrument that will both disrupt traditional business models and potentially preserve them. The early works of William Abernathy on roadblocks to innovation and Richard Rosenbloom on technology and information transfers in the 1960's and... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56032 in press Cognition I Know Why You Voted for Trump: (Over)inferring Motives Based on Choice By: Barasz, Kate, Tami Kim, and Ioannis Evangelidis Abstract—People often speculate about why... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operating in a coordinated manner. This new View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision

"multiple selves" metaphor resonates with many people because most of us regularly struggle with choices between 2 options, one of which we know we should choose because it would be virtuous to do so and one of which we want to... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Retail; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

products but erroneously expect others to dislike dissimilar ones (Studies 1 and 2). While people readily select dissimilar items for themselves (particularly if the dissimilar item is of higher quality than a similar one), they fail to predict this View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Model (23) Business Offices (4) Business Plan (2) Business Processes (4) Business Startups (39) Business Strategy (31) Business Units (1) Business Ventures (153) Business and Community Relations (8) Business and Government Relations (44)... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

situations, majority voting can have a "dark side," i.e., result in groups making choices inferior to those made by individuals acting alone. We develop a model to predict how two types of social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2009 (Revised May 2011)
  • Case

Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: Deciding about "Megadeals"

By: Anette Mikes
Inspired by one of the few banks that successfully weathered the 2007-2009 credit crisis, the case illustrates risk management in a corporate finance business. Chief executive Alastair Dowes has to decide if the risk governance process is adequate to uncover mega-risks... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Decision Making; Performance Evaluation; Credit; Balance and Stability; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Offer; Performance Effectiveness; Corporate Finance; Banking Industry
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Curriculum - Business & Environment

and be a model for future businesses. Raya Partners: Profitability and Purpose TXU (A): Powering the Largest Leveraged Buyout in History Key concepts: Corporate strategy This case is designed to support a lively discussion about the... View Details
  • Web

Health Care - Faculty & Research

21-23% for the commercial segment relative to Medicare Advantage in the year after introduction, but do not differentially impact net-of-rebate prices, at least in the short-run. To quantify the equilibrium price effects of coupons, we employ individual-level data to... View Details
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

conceptual model and propositions that highlight the attributes of effective workforce diversity initiatives and the process through which workforce diversity initiatives become effective. We focus on knowledge-intensive work and argue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You a Strategist?

just on low prices but also with a singular customer experience that no other retailer has yet managed to duplicate. "IKEA has made very clear choices about who they will be and to whom they will matter, and why," Montgomery says. Clarity... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 2009
  • Chapter

Opening Platforms: When, How and Why?

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall Van Alstyne
Platform-mediated networks encompass several distinct types of participants, including end users, complementors, platform providers who facilitate users' access to complements, and sponsors who develop platform technologies. Each of these roles can be opened-that... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Governance Controls; Market Participation; Digital Platforms
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  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

forthcoming Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation By: Harhoff, Dietmar, and Karim R. Lakhani, eds. Abstract—The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Business Model . Designing organizational structures and processes that allocate responsibilities, promote cross-functional integration, recruit/develop/promote employees, acquire critical resources and financing, and budget/monitor... View Details
  • 09 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

them." Alcácer advises companies to consider sending an advance team to live in a target locale to research the market and business models before expanding. Another problem with following competitors: an increasing risk that those... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

simplifies the retirement savings plan participation decision. Individuals received an opportunity to enroll in a retirement savings plan at a pre-selected contribution rate and asset allocation, allowing them to collapse a multidimensional problem into a binary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model was more conducive to green corporate strategies than liberal market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne