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    Overcrowded – Designing Meaningful Products in a World Awash with Ideas

    We live in a world awash with ideas. Thanks to the web and to powerful ideation approaches such as open innovation, design thinking, or crowdsourcing, organizations have today easy access to an unprecedented amount of novel concepts. In this context, what... View Details

    • 17 Jun 2008
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    First Look: June 17, 2008

    Nanda Abstract Using loan-level data from Mexico, we study the relationship between the organizational structure of banks and the terms of lending to small businesses. We find that banks with decentralized lending structures—where branch... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 09 Jan 2018
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    First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

    separate studies by the type of entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This literature shows common results and many points of disagreement, reflective of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Appreciation Society in 2001, which holds community led temporary art exhibitions, as well as numerous tours and discussions based on the works. Additionally, HBS faculty have also drawn from the Schwartz Collection using some of the pieces as visual View Details
    • 03 Jun 2008
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    First Look: June 3, 2008

    developers. This article analyses the innovation processes of a set of leading design-driven companies in the furniture industry to identify how they develop product innovations. The empirical investigation is based on several case View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 31 Aug 2020
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

    (iStock) iStock SUMMING UP Does Diversity Really Enhance Performance? As I’ve pointed out in the past, a tenet of the MBA classroom is that if a case problem splits the class, it will produce a good discussion. This appears to have been... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 11 Aug 2009
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    First Look: August 11, 2009

    assets, as reflected by the level 3 fair value designation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-008.pdf Does Competition Favor Delegation? Author:Christian Alejandro Ruzzier Abstract This paper studies the consequences... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 13 Nov 2017
    • Blog Post

    5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS

    considering getting an MBA and worried about similar issues, I hope you will find this post helpful.  Here were my major concerns:  1. I wasn’t interesting enough I studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Lagos, then spent... View Details
    • 28 May 2008
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    First Look: May 28, 2008

    on a systematic selection and analysis of articles, the paper outlines an emerging consensus on the definition and process of institutional entrepreneurship. It also presents the previously identified enabling conditions for, and reviews the research methods that have... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 03 Nov 2015
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    November 3, 2015

    employment regulation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50041 November 2015 Accounting Review The Effect of Target Difficulty on Target Completion: The Case of Reducing Carbon Emissions By: Ioannou,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Oct 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Better by the Bundle?

    research that culminated in their paper The Dynamic Effects of Bundling as a Product Strategy. Kumar and Derdenger studied the handheld video game market between 2001 and 2005, specifically Nintendo's Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Advance... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 27 Feb 2007
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    First Look: February 27, 2007

    Cases & Course MaterialsDesign: More Than a Cool Chair Harvard Business School Note 607-026 This introduction to the Design industry includes definitions, and industry statistics, as well as descriptions of geographic clustering,... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 08 Jun 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The Return of the Salesman

    and arranged terms of credit in case the "prospect" wanted to buy. In some cases, like the refrigerator, manufacturers relied on salespeople to introduce a product, but once it was accepted by consumers, they turned to advertising. In... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
    • 13 Mar 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

    authors John A. Quelch and Nathalie Laidler-Kylander see branding issues that are shared by many international entities, but also recognize that NGOs have missions and constituencies that add to the complexity of brand management. They look at twelve in-depth View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Salls
    • 12 Nov 2008
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    First Look: November 12, 2008

    persistent effect on post-colonial outcomes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/05-041.pdf Cases & Course Materials The Amsterdam World Trade Center Harvard Business School Case 208-078... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 02 Apr 2007
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Making the Move to General Manager

    arrive on their desk flagged as marketing or finance issues; part of the challenge is problem identification. Then the challenge is to design a feasible and integrated solution that works for the entire business unit. You're A Case View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 06 Feb 2007
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    First Look: February 6, 2007

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-046.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsBroadcast Television in the Broadband World Harvard Business School Note 707-486 What strategies have the top four (NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX) broadcast television... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 23 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

    are in an arm's-length transactional relationship, how do you move it into a fuller relationship? For the first puzzle, Narayandas and Manu Kalwani of Purdue University teamed up for an empirical study later published in The Journal of... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 06 Mar 2012
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    productive. The authors have studied when 161 countries adopted 104 technologies over the past 200 years, and they conclude that profound economic advantages-as measured by per capita income-accrue to early adopters of technology. Read... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Mar 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

    With COVID-19 cases growing worldwide, business leaders are scrambling to deal with a wide variety of problems, from slumping sales and stalling supply chains to keeping employees healthy and making sure they can continue working. We... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman