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10 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

Business School professors Kyle R. Myers, Karim R. Lakhani, and eight colleagues from institutions including Yale and Northwestern, published in the journal Nature Human Behavior in July. There’s already a “well-documented, persistent... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

trying rush to market, but it is not how great policies get formulated. Like many, many Americans, I am the grandchild of immigrants. Our country’s growth and prosperity have depended on immigrants. I recently published a book (Strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

published by the Academy of Management (August, 2005) as part of its Best Paper Proceedings. Her research on how young firms grow is based on data looking at new advertising agencies in New York and Chicago from 1977 to 1985. In this... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

October 2006
Teaching Note

Texas Gulf Sulphur: The Timmins Ontario Mine and Martha Stewart (TN) (A), (B) and (C)

By: Henry B. Reiling and Zack Phillips

Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry

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17 May 2016
First Look

May 17, 2016

industries and geographies, this collection provides students with an appreciation for the importance of consumer empowerment and consumer behavior in shaping both health and corporate outcomes. Publisher's link: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

spoke about how glass ceilings don't apply to black women—when they look up, they see a concrete wall. And she argued for another conference on changing academic roles, to combat what she sees as fear among more junior professors to View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

volunteers trained by Time to Read. Instead of financial grants, Time Warner supplies reading materials (especially magazines published by the company), classroom space, and tutors at its various offices around the country. Even when a... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who recently published a paper on the topic of technology commoditization in MIT Sloan Management Review. According to Shih, manufacturers are able to duplicate... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

Episcopalian or Presbyterian) men from the industrialized centers of the Northeast had the greatest advantages and opportunities for reaching the pinnacle of success in business in the early decades of the twentieth century. Being the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges Between Education and Business

she pointed out, so the task of revitalizing case research should not be overly complex. Several of the groups also advanced the idea of establishing a clearinghouse. Such a clearinghouse, they asserted, be it operated by Harvard Business School View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

labor between innovative new entrants and industry incumbents, endowed with complementary assets, is common in many industries. Such settings are distinct because new entrants have the additional option to sell their innovation in a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

published his two-volume, 1,095-page tome, Business Cycles, after more than seven years of concentrated research. He was fifty-six years old at the time and had been a professor at Harvard since 1932. He was well known throughout the... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

industry, based on a compilation of published articles. Describes factors driving industry growth, barriers to adoption, ecosystem roles, and potential business models. Purchase this compilation:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

Alesina, one of the most influential political economists, and I explored these questions before he passed away in 2020. Our work was published recently in the Journal of Economic Literature. We found that anti-immigration arguments tend... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

2009
Case

What People Want (and How to Predict It)

By: Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris

Historically, neither the creators nor the distributors of cultural products such as books or movies have used analytics -- data, statistics, predictive modeling -- to determine the likely success of their offerings. Instead, companies relied on the brilliance of... View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Creativity; Customer Satisfaction; Forecasting and Prediction; Markets; Business Model; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry

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23 Jun 2020
Book

Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

Created by the people for the people, the American political system is instead "a private industry dominated by a textbook duopoly—the Democrats and the Republicans—and plagued and perverted by unhealthy competition between... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Harness Auction Fever

professor Deepak Malhotra. "These might all increase the likelihood of overbidding due to auction fever." This research comes from a recently published paper, coauthored with Gillian Ku, "Towards a Competitive Arousal Model... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Web Services; Technology

02 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

trade with a high degree of market mediated objectivity—as the model for a future where managers struggle hopelessly to keep up with investor-perceived value shifts. They seem to directly challenge the precepts of Built to Last, a widely read study of thirty-six U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

somewhere to stay. Clustering created positive externalities drawing new entrepreneurs into the industry who could also learn from knowledge spillovers. There were downsides to the new industry. The creation of the national image of a... View Details