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- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
and innovative activity. Second, tax rates on capital income (such as corporate profits, dividends, and capital gains) have fallen while loopholes and deductions have generally been tightened, so that the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
Cohen and Breno Schmidt Abstract We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named trustee... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
years, I believe I have a clear sense of the state of corporate governance in the United States and in much of Western Europe. Not surprisingly, my crystal ball for predicting future developments and demands on boards cannot be so clear.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 2001 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Audio Spotlight, The
By: Youngme E. Moon
Joe Pompei, a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab, has invented a breakthrough audio invention. The invention is an "Audio Spotlight" that projects a narrow beam of sound in the same way a laser beam projects a narrow beam of light. He must now decide how to... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Independent Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Value Creation
Moon, Youngme E. "Audio Spotlight, The." Harvard Business School Case 502-014, November 2001. (Revised August 2002.)
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
mini-corporations that would last for most of the school year and would compete to sell goods or services. The learn-by-doing program gave teenagers the chance to prepare for corporate life by experiencing different positions within the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
business. It is argued that the country of origin of a technological innovation is less economically important than the ability of a society to capitalize on that innovation and convert it into profitable... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
and discuss how the combined effect of increased market concentration and cost synergies can be assessed efficiently. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-031.pdf Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation Authors:Ramana... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
sales force on track to achieve their annual sales quotas. The paper also introduces two main methodological innovations to the marketing literature: first, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
team and the ways in which firms shift their identities, build innovative cultures and processes, and begin to change the world around them. Business leaders will find the book a source of both powerful examples and immediately actionable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
Dillon, and David S. Duncan Abstract—Firms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors, product developers focus too much on building... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
that Al's research has moved from railroads to giant corporations and now to computers and consumer electronics underscores his eminent position as the historian of industries at the center of national interest in each era he studies. All... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
competition involves competing to deliver the greatest value for patients. Value-based competition will see more innovation as providers will not be all things to all people, but will create focused "practice areas" that address... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
without informing other departments, leading to waste and duplication. Respect among peers declined. Employees regularly went to the press to air grievances, reinforcing the BBC's culture of blame.— Rosabeth Moss Kanter BBC: In 1999, the British Broadcasting View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
of Corporate Compliance Programs: Establishing a Model for Prosecutors, Courts, and Firms By: Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract—When prosecutors, courts, and regulators make charging and sentencing decisions, they must evaluate whether firms... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
competitors' anticipated actions. Using new entrants into the United States from 1985 to 1994, we find that firms favor locations with academic innovative activity. Other results highlight differences in firms' location strategies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- July 2011
- Teaching Note
Addleshaw Goddard LLP (TN)
By: Robert G. Eccles and Penelope Rossano
Teaching Note for 409056. View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Business School Case 307-077 Describes the opportunities and strategy facing one of the most innovative global supply-chain companies, and the strategy it has chosen to deal with the expanding demand for its services. Li & Fung links... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
support, they don't have to fear their attacks or monitor their every move. When people give one another the benefit of the doubt and, better yet, believe in one another, more projects are launched, more innovations get seeded, and more... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
"The best way to go about it in the corporate world is to have good leaders who can lead by example with positive and solution-oriented attitudes." Kevin Bowe added, "Attitudes can be learned, and winning behaviors... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
dynamics of cities. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52917 forthcoming The Corporate Contract in Changing Times: Is the Law Keeping Up? Using the Deal Price for Determining 'Fair Value' in Appraisal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel