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- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of their Immersive Field Course... View Details
- 03 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of their Immersive Field Course... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
supposed to be kept separate and preferably distant. And many agree with Milton Friedman who famously said that the purpose of business is to maximize returns to shareholders and compete to satisfy consumer... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
and wrote down as many innovative ideas as they could think of, with the average person coming up with 4.5 new ideas. These ideas were then anonymously scored by other participants and Indian consumers on a variety of measures, including... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
"denial is avoidable and leads to failure," such as Henry Ford's presumption that consumers would continue to want black autos in the face of evidence that they were becoming more interested in color; IBM's dogged pursuit of PC... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
Innovator's Dilemma as well as studies conducted more recently—might help angels, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs get around one of the heartbreaking paradoxes of success. Outpacing Consumers Every market entails a trajectory of... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
allocations for general, substitutable, and strongly substitutable preferences. Apart from obtaining "set inclusion results" on all three domains, we introduce weak setwise stability as a new stability concept and prove that for substitutable View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
driver of macroeconomic fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and consumer preferences there is a specific pattern of economic transmission whereby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
into an increasingly innovative media company, with an emphasis on original programming, reality television, sports, music, and news. Conde has also implemented an aggressive multiplatform digital strategy to reach tech-savvy consumers... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
particularly within a tenth of a mile, of a house lowers the price at which it is sold. Our preferred estimate of this effect is that a foreclosure at a distance of 0.05 miles lowers the price of a house by about 1%. Download the paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
structure shifts towards extracting more rents from producers relative to consumers when consumers have stronger demand for variety, since producers become less substitutable. With platform competition,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
jobs focused on energy, cleantech, environment, and sustainability. Opportunities exist in virtually every industry, from consumer products and technology, to investing and real estate. In the most recent graduating class, the top five... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
have preferences over relative outcomes, we derive predictions about the antecedents and consequences of dividing equity equally among all founders. Using proprietary survey data, we empirically test the predictions. Our central finding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
years. In this period, Norway was at the forefront with regard to implementing legislation regulating cartels, yet the legislation was not an antitrust legislation in the modern sense. It was aimed not only at protecting consumer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
plus only if consumers accept them. As an example, he cites an instance when GM and Ford customers rejected upgrades in the rear suspensions of Camaros and Mustangs because aficionados liked the feel of their "ride" just the way... View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
Harvard Business School Case 515-024 Conjoint Analysis: A Do It Yourself Guide Conjoint Analysis has become one of the most commonly used quantitative market research methods. It has been successfully employed across a wide variety of industries to quantify View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
whether or not employees are selected via channels that are likely to sort on the alignment of their preferences with organizational objectives. I find that employees selected through such channels are more likely to use decision-making... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
to invest all that money? Typically we’ll invest a new fund over a three-year period, and then go out and raise our next fund. Accel IX, which we started investing in January 2005, is very much focused on consumer Internet, mobile... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
standardized products. Yet the bulk of the related literature, which focuses on whether consumers prefer global brands, misses out on supply-side considerations related to costs. Q: How can the study of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace