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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
difference in the world. To that end, we search for opportunities to contribute to the study of leadership and the development of content for the MBA Program and various executive education offerings. Throughout our work, we seek to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
and David Moss Publication:Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 Abstract After two generations of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, we now see growing interest in the possibility of constructive...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Under fairly general assumptions, expected stock returns are a linear combination of two accounting-based characteristics—book to market and ROE. Empirical estimates based on this relation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
and switching costs in platform markets, entrants generally must offer revolutionary functionality. We explore a second entry path that does not rely upon Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. Through envelopment, a provider in...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
No Reason to Go Nuclear While I applaud the general thrust of Byron Wien’s “My Two Cents” contribution in the December issue, he wandered beyond his competency with the following statement: “We will need to View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
behaviors and settings could have as great an influence as the content itself. One respondent wrote, "...values should be modeled by the instructors in how they prepare and deliver content, the time and value they give their...
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by James Heskett
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
platform-based products (applications) and users of such products. We show that the unique equilibrium under platform compatibility leads to higher profits than the symmetric equilibrium under incompatibility. Notwithstanding,...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
the collective expectations of market participants. We are already in a very different moment in history compared to the middle of the 1990s. What most fascinated me was how much the content of financial orthodoxy had shifted during the...
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by Ann Cullen
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
traditional newspapers are fighting an uphill battle for readership against Internet content portals. Q: From a management skills perspective, what do managers and strategists who make their living from software platforms need? Seems like...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
Bain, consumers—perhaps wary of greenwashing in the notoriously opaque industry—have thus far not discerned the difference between the sustainability of the two methods of production. With Aether, Hagemann hopes to change that. Convincing the next View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
& Kapoor, 2010; Iansiti & Levien, 2004; von Hippel, 1988). Ecosystems generally encompass numerous corporations, individuals, and communities that might be individually autonomous but related through their connection with an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
favorite content wherever they are whenever they demand it, consumption patterns will become more, not less uniform, this theory predicts. To shed light on this debate, we study the distribution of revenues across products in the context...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
going for a walk. I started thinking about how at HBS so much of the content we produce—we produce an extraordinary amount of content—is perfectly and beautifully polished, which in general is great. On the...
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- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
clearly political content to what we are suggesting," says Bower. "We talk about the need for leaders of companies to develop skill sets that they might not have—a lot of our business leaders have not been brought up to be comfortable in...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
encourages employees to both share nostalgic memories and make new ones with their coworkers primes the pump of creativity. People are more likely to feel comfortable taking risks and exploring new ideas when they feel socially supported, energized, and confident....
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- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
club has new energy, new leadership, and a new urgency to connect, share, and support each other,” says Adams. “This is content you’re not going to get elsewhere. We have speakers you may not hear in other venues. We want to provide an...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
husband and two children across the country for a job at a no-name Internet start-up. What changed your mind? I spent the day at eBay. I learned that users were deeply dedicated to the site, which had a compound monthly growth rate of 70...
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- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
Coast operations and its West Coast computer people would severely affect the company. The focus for much of this division was PARC. In the 1970s, PARC was remarkably successful in developing ingenious products that would fundamentally alter the nature of computing....
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- Web
Online AI Course | HBS Online
Explore ethical AI-related challenges to implement it responsibly and manage risks Develop the skills and frameworks to shape your organization’s digital transformation strategy Rethink your system, processes, and roles to build an AI-powered organization Learn how...
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- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
he is at odds with the theories of economist Mancur Olson, whose 1965 book, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, sparked a generation of political scientists and regulation theorists, including George...
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by Kim Girard