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- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
be totally ubiquitous, part of the air you breathe," Dayton said. But he also acknowledged challenges for the technology to overcome. First, the hot spots that exist today are fragmented, nowhere near ubiquitous. Ease of use is an... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
important, improvements in logistics; cross-border flows of labor, capital, and ideas; weakened intellectual property protection; and improved global communication have helped people, money, products, and ideas to disperse throughout the... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
non-viable project into the viable camp. An example might be a community solar project that would not generate enough cash flow on its own to attract bank debt and thus would not get built—unless the additional capital made it work for... View Details
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
World Wide Web. "Of course it's true that Facebook became popular because it's really good at helping friends connect," Weaver says. "But I think a big chunk of the value of Facebook has little to do with social media, but instead flows... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
gatekeeper then needs to make her colleagues aware of who else is playing (or planning to play) in the same market. In contrast, many firms working on similar technologies do not compete and have no plans to compete. Information View Details
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
joining a bubble. In the recent paper, "Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles," Harvard Business School's Robin Greenwood and Stanford's Stefan Nagel compared the returns of young and older mutual fund managers during and after the View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
in the rural areas where cable got started. By the end of the 1950s, however, cable technology had improved to the point where 12-channel systems were commonplace. 4 Cable entrepreneurs used these additional channels along with microwave... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
shared platform, such as Visa, DVD, or Linux, multiple firms collaborate in developing the platform's technology then compete in offering users different but compatible versions of the platform. This article examines factors that favor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
Administration at Harvard Business School. “This is technology that's going to help us to abate these issues around energy and climate, and it's the best technology in that space.” The spectacular rise of... View Details
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural analysis is complete without a... View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
A second important driver is the evolution of scientific knowledge and of the technology that goes along with this evolution. Little by little, our uncertainty about the cause of a disease or the optimal therapy for each disease is... View Details
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
II, hundreds of billions of federal dollars flowed through agencies like the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and NASA to pay for the basic and applied research that spawned the... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
that’s actually not true. There are times when globalization takes a step back. From 1850 to 1914, there was a technological revolution: With the telegraph, suddenly you could communicate from New Zealand to London in seconds, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
model that makes sense for retail operators without subsidy. Using a franchising model that relies on seasoned local entrepreneurs, communication technology that monitors flows and quality, payment View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
truly qualify as green—as opposed to just greenwashing—wasn’t straightforward. “There isn’t a crisp definition about what is a green bond and what isn’t,” says Serafeim, a professor in the Accounting and Management Unit. “The test we used was to look at how the money... View Details
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
increase in the flow of FDI. In support of our theory, private savings increased very rapidly beginning around 1960. This seems a good example of the dynamics emphasized by the model where private savings is helpful in attracting FDI,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
Development on the Investment Cash Flow Relationship: Cross-Country Evidence from Europe Authors:Bo Becker and Jagadeesh Sivadasan Publication:B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate financing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
and magnitude of their capital flows in and out of the funds. We use dollar-weighted returns (a form of IRR) to assess the properties of actual investor returns on hedge funds and compare them to buy-and-hold fund returns. Our main... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
flow in terms of what areas are hot or not. Biotechnology was very hot in the 80s and 90s, and then there was a long profound downturn. In the last 18 months it’s becoming really hot again with bioinformatics, which combines information... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Working PapersThe CHAT Dataset Authors:Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15319, September 2009 Abstract This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace