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- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
potentially greater, more contingent control rights are used. 2006 Strategic Organization Digitization, Innovation, and Copyright: What Is the Agenda? By: Lerner, Josh, Shane Greenstein, and Scott Stern Abstract—This essay discusses the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
and industry-level evidence. We find a positive robust correlation between de jure and de facto measures of international financial integration and proxies for entrepreneurial activity such as entry, size, and skewness of the firm-size distribution. We then explore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
attracted to skilled labor and specialized suppliers than they are to potential knowledge spillovers, even in R&D intensive industries. We also find that leading firms will be more attracted to pools of labor, suppliers, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
etc.) to implement the new strategy. Purchase the case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109015 BMW's Project Switch (B): Importers vs. National Sales Companies Harvard Business School Supplement 509-024 BMW is faced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
delivery tomorrow versus two days in the future do not show this want/should pattern, and we briefly discuss survey results suggesting a potential explanation for the nonlinearity in customers' apparent decreasing impatience. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
Bill after World War II, which created a huge pool of potential new students. What were other crucial turning points? A: The Great Depression of the 1930s reinvigorated the discourse and questions about what a profession is and what end... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books How High Can You Soar? Eight Powers to Lift You to Your Full Potential by Jennifer Adams (OPM 51, 2018) Beyond Words Publishing What is holding you back from your biggest dreams? What steps can you... View Details
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Investing (HBS) The Founder Mindset (HBS) Transforming Education Through Social Entrepreneurship (HBS) By December 6: Harvard graduate students enrolled in other related Harvard graduate school courses may contact the Social Enterprise Initiative for a case-by-case... View Details
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MBA Admissions - Alumni
Volunteer MBA Admissions MBA alumni partner with the Admissions team to support efforts with potential applicants, applicants, and admitted students, so that prospective students may experience firsthand the strength and warmth of our... View Details
- 11 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
reconnaissance of potentially hazardous spaces. The quadcopter functions in total darkness, in buildings it has never previously entered, and flies without prior knowledge or programming of the space—even in areas without GPS or... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Counterfactual simulations of our structural model show large gains from screening potential hires via psychometric measurement and training to improve managerial practices. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
is that fiscal risk and social risk interact in complex ways. When considering many potential projects, government cost-benefit analysis thus acquires the flavor of a portfolio choice problem. We use the model to explore how the relative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Pittsburgh had a second act (or third, counting the city's reversal from untenable air and water pollution levels in the 1940s). Pittsburgh's recovery offers a potential model for Detroit. It went on to become a technology hub, anchored... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
automatically consider the potentially dubious motives of agents who cause harm indirectly. Experiment 4 demonstrates an effect of indirect agency on purchase intentions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-012.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
standard-deviation increase in both bank-relationship strength and cross-selling potential is associated with a 16 basis point (5%) decrease in spread and a 0.4 point (7%) increase in the Maximum debt to EBITDA covenant. This translates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
work? A: Many firms adopt what we call a "production outsourcing" mindset to collaboration. This is typified by a focus on lowering cost at the expense of other potentially more valuable benefits. These firms view collaboration as a form... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
fashion e-commerce company, Peach. It’s also a challenge to an industry where a company’s potential is often predicted based on its similarity to other successful ventures, most often led by CEOs who look a whole lot like Mark Zuckerberg.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
That’s when the courage to take risks came out—because I was so excited about what I was doing.” —JH Ganesh Natarajan Unleashing Employee Potential “It’s not really a textbook leadership style,” Natarajan concedes, but treating employees... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 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
- 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