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- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
the effect is small—averaging about one pitch a game—it is consistent and statistically significant, ruling out simple human error. A pitcher's race may influence how an umpire calls balls View Details
- Web
ICIC - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Promote a dynamic urban marketplace powered by diversity, creative enterprise, and untapped competitive advantages Determine the industry clusters with the highest market opportunity for inner city business... View Details
- 2018
- Article
Prior Ties and the Limits of Peer Effects on Startup Team Performance
By: Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
We conduct a field experiment at an entrepreneurship bootcamp to investigate whether interaction with proximate peers shapes a nascent startup team's performance. We find that teams whose members lack prior ties to others at the bootcamp experience peer effects that... View Details
Keywords: Field Experiment; Peer Effects; Office Space; Knowledge Spillovers; Accelerators; Entrepreneurship; Knowledge Sharing; Performance; Technology Industry; India
Hasan, Sharique, and Rembrand Koning. "Prior Ties and the Limits of Peer Effects on Startup Team Performance." Strategic Management Journal 40, no. 9 (September 2019): 1394–1416.
- Web
CEO Leadership - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Business Review Seven Surprises for New CEOs by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch, & Nitin Nohria As a newly minted CEO, you may think you finally have the power to set strategy, the authority to make things happen, View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
TikTok Wants More Ad Dollars, and It Has a New Plan to Get Them
- 2022
- Working Paper
Category Kings or Commoners? Marketing Shaping and Its Consequences in Nascent Categories
By: Rory McDonald
For a new market category to materialize, someone must actively bring it into existence. Yet it remains a mystery how entrepreneurs, whose resources are stretched thin, can accomplish this task. Prior research emphasizes the importance of market-shaping... View Details
- 02–03 Dec 2022
- HBS Alumni Events
D^3 Catalyst: No Code Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Do you want to delve into Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, but you feel overwhelmed and intimidated? Do you want to leverage the power of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence without writing any code? Do you want to leverage Machine Learning and... View Details
- Book Review
Negotiating with Iran: Cultural and Historical Insights
In a vitally important relationship famously caricatured as the "Mad Mullahs" v. the "Great Satan," the fraught negotiating history and future of Iran and the United States demands historical, cultural, and psychological insight if there is to be any prospect of... View Details
Sebenius, James K. "Negotiating with Iran: Cultural and Historical Insights." Negotiation Journal 27, no. 4 (October 2011): 493–497.
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
original programming arena where competitors annually spent billions of dollars? Could Hulu navigate potential conflicts with the individual business plans of its owners: Comcast, 21st Century Fox, Disney, and Warner Bros.—some of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
Publishing), a soon-to-be-published book by HBS Professor David Yoffie, who served as moderator of the panel. "Judo is the art of hand-to-hand fighting in which the weight and efforts of one's opponents are used to bring about their... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- August 2021 (Revised February 2023)
- Case
Fair Park Covid-19 Mass Vaccination Site (A)
By: Willy Shih
This case is an opportunity to apply the methods of the Toyota Production System (TPS) to the analysis of an everyday service application: administering Covid-19 vaccines. It describes the start-up of a drive-up Covid-19 mass vaccination site at the Texas State Fair... View Details
Keywords: Operations Improvement; Operations And Processes; Toyota Production System; COVID-19 Pandemic; Operations; Service Operations; Health Pandemics; Problems and Challenges; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States; Texas
Shih, Willy. "Fair Park Covid-19 Mass Vaccination Site (A)." Harvard Business School Case 622-003, August 2021. (Revised February 2023.)
- Web
Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
meaningful use program that was introduced in 2009 and 2010. However, the capabilities of today’s IT infrastructure fall well short of that needed to truly support value-based care. Consensus among IT suppliers, providers, payers, View Details
- April 2012
- Article
Local R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages
By: Juan Alcacer and Minyuan Zhao
This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive technology clusters, where much of the world's R&D takes place. The leading players in these clusters are multilocation firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide.... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Technology
Alcacer, Juan, and Minyuan Zhao. "Local R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages." Management Science 58, no. 4 (April 2012): 734–753.
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
This means less "show-and-tell" presentations and more open, interactive, strategic discussions. It is only through greater focus and proactive setting of the board's agenda that boards can... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- February 4, 2013
- Guest Column
How Facebook Can Totally Undermine Apple and Google in the Platform Games
By: Andrei Hagiu
Today, Facebook seems like the juggernaut crushing everything in its path, most recently Twitter's Vine app and Yandex's social app. And in its last quarter, Facebook's mobile usage surpassed its web usage—for the first time ever. This is important because Facebook has... View Details
Keywords: Technology Industry
Hagiu, Andrei. "How Facebook Can Totally Undermine Apple and Google in the Platform Games." Wired.com (February 4, 2013).
- 14 Oct 2019
- News
A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
the spectrum, which was part of what drove me to enroll in the MBA program. What influenced your decision to go into clean tech? I’m definitely passionate about the environment and interested in finding... View Details
- 2010
- Other Unpublished Work
Top Executive Background and Corporate M&A: The Case of Former Investment Bankers
By: Francois Brochet and Kyle Welch
We study the M&A activity of firms with top executives whose employment history includes experience in a Wall Street firm, especially those with investment banking background ("IB executives"). In terms of strategy, controlling for firm-level effects, we document that... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
with the eventual goal being a series of books, a worldwide travelling photo exhibition and a powerful commercial website. “It’s a very global concept, a very global brand, in the best HBS tradition,” he... View Details