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  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

issue of Medtronic's performance standards, I found that goals and deadlines were routinely set, missed, and then simply adjusted. Poor performance was rationalized by excuses. Even incentive payments were adjusted upward to reflect these excuses. As a result, sales... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 22 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

any of these factors presents a tough puzzle for any researcher to crack. Silverthorne: You’ve just started at HBS. What does your research agenda look like for the next few years? Roche: And what an odd time to start!? Much of my research so far has examined the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

(inflows minus outflows of private capital) are positively correlated with countries' productivity growth; (2) net sovereign debt flows (government borrowing minus reserves) are negatively correlated with growth only if net public debt is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-091.pdf An Exploration of Technology View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

psychological safety, and embracing failure and conflict. Individuals who learn to team well acquire knowledge, skills, and networks. Organizations learn to solve complex, cross-disciplinary problems, build stronger and more unified cultures, deliver a wide variety of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

In the debate over whether to increase or decrease the stringency of environmental regulations, the possibility that government agencies might use purchasing to stimulate market demand for "green" products and services is often... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 11 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

the following century. Firms employed marketing and marketing strategies to diffuse products and brands internationally despite business, economic, and cultural obstacles to globalization. The process was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

in production and economies of scope in distribution. In some industries, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was gradually tamed by what the historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr. has termed the "visible hand" of professional... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

Measurement, Causes, and Consequences By: Comin, Diego A., and Marti Mestieri Abstract—This chapter discusses different approaches pursued to explore three broad questions related to technology diffusion: what general patterns characterize the View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

diffusion of the commercial internet. Theory predicts that firms with greater market share will be more likely to adopt innovations that build on their existing strengths, while they will resist more radical technological advances. While... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

Abstract—The Food and Drug Administration approves new medical devices after in-depth reviews of safety and effectiveness data. Some have advocated for shorter review times to encourage innovation. We evaluated whether regulatory review time and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

Importantly, these past track records also predict divergent future real outcomes in patents, patent citations, and new product innovations. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/dimalco.pdf Paying It Forward:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to the agglomeration of domestic firms? Using a unique worldwide plant-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

exception. What they have in common are good reasons for foreign businesses and Western governments to cheer the changes. In Bahrain, the Khalifa family, members of Islam's Sunni sect, rules over a majority Shia population. This kingdom in the Persian Gulf earns $5... View Details
Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities
  • 07 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

industrial lobbies in Germany (and the world), engaged in social politics, and harnessed the local artistic community to beautify their products and transform their advertising to combat the (then) widespread perception of the 'cheap and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

“ancient quest to measure.” Specific discontinuities in the practice of information science are identified that, the paper argues, have large consequences for the social order. The infrastructure that runs on big data is described as View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

incentivized boards of directors may have played a role in protecting the interests of outside investors. Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:NBER Macroeconomics Annual (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 26

for two completely different reasons. The first is a change in technology that reduces the value of co-location (stickiness). This tends to lead to the decoupling of design and production activities and to a broad geographic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 9

potential approaches to establishing evidence of social influence in partially endogenous networks, and they may be especially persuasive in combination. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-136.pdf Technology Innovation and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 CEOs of listed firms yields three sets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel