Understanding Interests - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

matter? A: Absolutely. It's a very interesting paradox. In a global economy where it's easy to move goods and information around the world, these things become givens available to any enterprise. As a result, they are no longer a source... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

enabling new players to innovate without understanding how the technology building blocks they are using actually work inside. This suggests that there are new rules of competition, where firms should move beyond commoditized parts and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

Pike Place Roast, which emphasizes the brand's humble Seattle coffee culture beginnings. Adidas's "Impossible Is Nothing" campaign emphasized the underdog stories of famous athletes. Q: How did you notice this trend? How did you study it in-depth? A: Our... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

Internship: Rock Summer Fellowship How do you do it? I have to have a clear understanding of where my time is spent. I block everything on my calendar - eating, showering, commuting... everything. Then I'm able to see what's open, and... View Details

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

20 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce

returns you need. I'm studying family wealth creators around the world. The best, like Alex Birman at Arezzo, often show an interest in business between the ages of 8-14. Develop these wealth generators by providing the right... View Details

16 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 16

their collective interest levels to implement a regression discontinuity approach. We confirm the positive effects for venture operations, with qualitative support for a higher likelihood of successful exits. On the other hand, there is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

Wright note that there are interesting strategy implications for entrepreneurs when deciding where to place their business on the continuum that runs from pure reseller to pure MSP. These trade-offs were evident for thredUP, which shifted... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

considered to be especially important. “I have had papers rejected because they are ‘of interest to a specialized audience and not to a general audience,’” says Shane Greenstein, the MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Business Administration... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

God-given gifts and opportunities to serve others – to live what I had spent so much time only reading about. REFLECTION ON SERVICE: Why, then, did I leave the Army? I left for the same reason I joined—I felt called. The Army helped me View Details

15 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: November 15

duopoly rather than to remain a monopolist. Bias in Search Results?: Diagnosis and Response Author:Benjamin Edelman Publication:The Indian Journal of Law and Technology 7 (2011) Abstract I explore allegations of search engine bias, including View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

R&D also come with more investment risk. While science-based patents are more likely to have higher values, they are also more likely to be total flops. In efforts to commercialize novel science, R&D teams often fail to replicate the key findings or struggle to... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

06 Sep 2019
Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

his tuition by trading his own stocks. This fall, Ameen will begin classes at Harvard Business School, where he says he hopes to strengthen the financial, analytical, and leadership skills that will help him understand how to work within... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

While a non-depository CDFI like the Reinvestment Fund can assume risks that a traditional bank cannot—“banks can’t take losses,” Young, who once worked at a CDFI, explains—it must also set higher interest rates to cover its own costs,... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

20 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

says. "There has been some talk at conferences where there seems to be an understanding that these models are too restrictive." Widening The View So the professors created a new discrete choice model called Flexible Substitution... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Mar 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO

family business, interested in long-term success, poor performance may not be reason enough to fire the leader. The business leader may not be responsible for the poor results and may even be the right person to help restore good health.... View Details

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

bored," wrote Robert Sullivan (HBS MBA '61). "Levitt made me a convert. He taught that marketing is the guts of any business, that it's critical to understanding the connection between sales, manufacturing, finance, human... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

and management than I did since we began researching and writing this book. Datar: I am looking at how implementation and execution strategies vary across countries. I'm also continuing my research in microfinance. I am particularly View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

the more concentrated the legislator's interest in the industry, the more informative are her votes for future returns. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/dimalcoII.pdf 2006 pub Friends in High Places By: Cohen,... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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