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Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business - Course Catalog
mechanics of setting prices, and pushes students to think critically about a company’s customer advantage in the marketplace and what monetization approach can most effectively capitalize on this advantage, thus helping the firm achieve...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
And mechanisms exist to handle such contingencies both efficiently and effectively. Depending on the facts and circumstances, for instance, a job change could lead to a decision not to renominate an incumbent director. In a case of...
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Joseph Hinsey IV
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
countries at different stages of development and institutional capacity is needed to surface the role of local conditions and absorptive capacities; micro-level work, that is firm-level data in developed as well as developing nations, to understand the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to admit. Using a unique data set of 9,661 software contests, we provide...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
must face tough regulation going forward, including strict limits on overall leverage and short-term debt. Under the new reform legislation, regulators will be empowered to rein in the largest financial institutions in precisely these ways. The legislation also...
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by Staff
- 01 Mar 2012
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Robots to the Rescue
process customers’ orders. An MIT-trained mechanical engineer, Mountz first encountered the inefficiencies of traditional order fulfillment in 2000 while working at Webvan, an Internet-based grocery home-delivery service. “The company...
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- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
Economics Prizes, Publicity, and Patents: Non-Monetary Awards as a Mechanism to Encourage Innovation By: Moser, Petra, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—This paper exploits the selection of prize-winning technologies among exhibitors at the...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
time, portrays “Native people as noble savages,” as part of an uncorrupt but primitive past, contrasting with technology and industrialization but passively accepting the inevitable “progress” of white civilization. Top : Mechanics Bank...
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- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-083.pdf Bridge Building in Venture Capital-Backed Acquisitions Authors:Paul A. Gompers and Yuhai Xuan Abstract We compare three potential mechanisms for alleviating the asymmetric information between the...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
both mechanisms successfully generates a sizable secular increase. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51107 Motivating Effort in Contributing to Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
research agenda surrounding the geographic mobility of workers. He previously studied the productivity benefits of geographic mobility. His “ROPE” framework explores four mechanisms that impose costs and/or constraints when workers...
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by Kristen Senz
- 01 Oct 1997
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Antitrust in Historical Perspective
terms with what business itself should be. Is it a method for delivering goods to consumers at the lowest prices? Is it a mechanism for providing employment? Is it a tool for asserting national power abroad? Is it a vehicle for building...
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Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
properties on the Ohio or Missouri rivers that flood every now and then but can be cleaned up afterwards without terminal damage. Move the mechanical systems and electrical switchgear to a high floor, evacuate residents temporarily, and...
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by John Macomber
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
migrants, which helped US firms speed the development of new technologies. “Knowledge transfers through social networks,” Choudhury says. “If a firm created mechanisms where the locals would work with migrants, then that knowledge would...
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- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future? Austin Brown comments: Cryptocurrencies also have no inherent value in and of themselves, so the big question here is whether or not they are actually a good mechanism by which to exchange...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2016
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Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
numbers, they found that once computer testing was introduced at a company, workers ended up staying on the job for an average of 15 percent longer. The result indicates mechanical testing can be helpful in hiring decisions, but it...
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- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
soar. While all this is happening, Facebook's marketing influence will accelerate dramatically, providing a growing revenue stream for the company. When Facebook first started it was no more than a mechanism to attract eyeballs for...
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by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 17 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 17, 2007
sharper increases in labor productivity. The ethnic transfer mechanism is especially strong in high-tech industries and among Chinese economies. The findings suggest channels for transferring codified and tacit knowledge partly shape the...
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Martha Lagace
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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog
depending on your individual circumstances. The Add/Drop process at the start of the term is the mechanism for any IFC enrollment changes, and, after that point, the course fee is non-refundable. Refer to the GEO website for full details...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
the company also donates a percentage of online customer purchases. And, most recently, Working Assets created a similar donation mechanism through the long-distance telephone and Internet services it now offers on Sprint PCS Web-enabled...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso