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- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
in general is too risky a strategy, and entertainment businesses should vigorously try to save costs in an effort to increase profits. But in my research I have found that betting heavily on the most likely blockbusters and spending...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
aimed at positioning HBP, HBX, and Executive Education for future growth; and investments in I.T. systems and platforms across the School. Although HBS characterizes its publishing, digital learning, and executive program costs as...
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- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
Working PapersPlatform Envelopment (revised) Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To enter established...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
are used as a modeling framework for such studies, this data inadequacy can manifest itself as imprecision in the elements of the transition matrix. In this paper, we study how to compute maximal and minimal values for the discounted value of the chain (with respect to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
comparing the value of care delivery and therefore the cost of therapies. Measuring the value of advanced technologies like proton beam therapy versus intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is especially crucial, given the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009
the opportunity and switching cost of domestic standards are relatively low. We do not find evidence that levels of and expected changes in foreign trade and investment flows in a country affect its adoption...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
Tiffany Nida’s Amazon Journey: “I Continue to Grow Because They Keep Giving Me Responsibility.”
developments. In one respect, however, her expectations were incorrect. “I didn’t enjoy it,” she says. “I absolutely loved it. I had come from a consulting background where I was constantly blown away by the people around me. Amazon exceeded my View Details
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- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
view raises questions of whether there will be an adequate supply of such talent. Will impatient Western managers eager to develop Chinese business opportunities delay initiatives until the right people can be found? How high is the View Details
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by James Heskett
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Structural barriers also appear to be impeding bank lending to small businesses, including consolidation within the banking industry, high search costs, and higher transaction costs associated with small...
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- 18 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East
After serving significant stints with Booz Allen, Yahoo! and Facebook, Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) can justifiably claim expertise in strategy, consulting, and social media. Although she regards her track record with pride, she sees herself more as a well-rounded View Details
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Evelyne White
Bookalokal continue to focus only on small and midsized cities. The company seems likely to confront winner-take-all competitive dynamics at the city level, because network effects are strong—more diners will attract more hosts, and vice versa—and because hosts will...
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- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
were making decisions that made them more acceptable to customers given the particular social, cultural, and economic contexts within which they were embedded. Ownership Structure and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing Authors: Chen Lin, Yue...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Reflecting on my service
$4,000,000 of equipment and challenged to become fluent in Pashto. By twenty-two, I was part of a small team leading hundreds of men on the battlefield, conducting dozens of raids and capturing Taliban leaders to destabilize the insurgency. Unfortunately, the most...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
process. The staff of seven recently switched from an assembly line to a less-efficient but more scalable pick-and-pack process, with one person completing each order. In the previous setup, adding staff would create bottlenecks. “Imagine...
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- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
the outcomes. Teradyne found that by using generic components offered with Windows NT software, it could slash the cost of delivering the product to integrated circuit manufacturers. Despite the significant View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, business in general and the insurance industry in particular are examining ways to manage the high cost of insurance against acts of terrorism. Appearing before the...
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- 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008
86, no. 2 (February 2008) Abstract In May 2004, with the war for talent in high gear, Groysberg and colleagues from Harvard Business School wrote in these pages about the risks of hiring star performers away from competitors. After...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
hand! Suddenly, there was this incredible tool that could help me (and others) work faster and better. How do women fare in the high-tech culture? I have never felt that being a woman has inhibited my career. I see high tech as a...
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- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
says Rodríguez of IGNIA, which is Mexico’s biggest VC firm. Growing up in Mexico, Rodríguez and his brother were raised by their mother after their father left the country in 1972. He attended high school in the United States and...
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Susan Young
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Olivia Zhao
incentives for companies to make drugs, but then you get to the point where someone has to pay for them. The question is, how do insurers and payers decide what to pay for drugs, and how does that affect patients who may be faced with a very View Details