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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Post-Soviet Purpose
HBS assistant professor Rawi Abdelal’s 2001 book National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective (Cornell University Press) was awarded the 2002 Shulman Prize for Outstanding Book on International... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Applying Strategy Concepts In Innovative Ways Through Technology
brewery compares to the competition. Team members have one hour to digest the information and formulate a new strategy. At the end of eight rounds, industry winners are selected based on their overall performance throughout the game.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Download This
study that directly compares actual downloads of music files with store sales of CDs, covering the last half of 2002. “While downloads occurred on a vast scale during this period — 3 million simultaneous users shared 500 million files on... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
Philosophers have talked by turns about both the "wisdom" and "madness" of crowds. But when it comes to assessing and funding the arts, just how wise are crowds—and how does their wisdom compare to that of art experts? HBS Associate... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Recreation
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
business. "There has been a lot of fascinating and important literature on this topic," says Beshears, Harvard Business School assistant professor, "but for the most part, it doesn't get beyond anecdotal evidence." That's because it can be extremely... View Details
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
comparative consumer product reviews since 1936. The publication ranks competitive brands according to quality, based on in-house testing and customer surveys, and publishes the products' retail prices. "Decades of data, just staring... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
compared to the others. As a manager, this is very complex because one must consider not only what is just enough for the firm and each employee, but also each employee's perception of what is just enough." It raises the question... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
and clothing, with almost half draining their savings to pay the bills, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey. Medical debt tends to be a more pervasive problem among those earning less than $40,000 per year and among Black and Hispanic households View Details
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Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Race & Gender Gaps Persist - Race, Gender & Equity
funding. 44% of tech founders said they received funding from angel investors , with 57% of white men in this group receiving $1 million or more, compared to 52% of men of color, 31% of white women, and 28% of women of color. Proportion... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
America, Lodge realized that ideology could be used as a multidisciplinary analytical tool for comparing countries and understanding change within a particular nation. The concept was pivotal in his award-winning 1975 book, The New... View Details
- Fast Answer
Cost of living data
Where can I find comparative cost of living information for the U.S. and across international cities? U.S.: There are a number of websites that allow comparing the cost of living in different cities: View Details
- Fast Answer
Bloomberg: company information
summary and Bloomberg quote providing overview of key price data, fundamentals, and news on selected equity. CACS for corporate action calendar. COMP for comparable returns against 2 other securities or indices. CN for company news. MCN... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Tickling the Ivories
in January, Kao compared the innovation models of Apple (edited, intuitive, top-down) and Google (data-driven, reactive, bottom-up), noting that they highlighted “the archetypical tension in the creative process,” the New York Times... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
looked at "industry-tied votes" by "interested" legislators—senators from states where agriculture was responsible for a high percentage of the state's GDP—and compared those votes with the votes of "uninterested" legislators (from... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
hypothetical delivery of a 23-week gestation infant and chose either IC or CC. Open-ended and structured questions elicited reasoning. Data were analyzed by chi-square and logistic regression analysis. Results: Neither degree of detail, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Rating Better
associate professor Joshua Coval, and Lubos Pastor of the University of Chicago’s business school, conclude that a manager’s ability can best be detected by comparing his or her portfolio with those of other fund managers with stellar... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
items. Meanwhile, Target and Walmart smartly deployed their formidable power over suppliers and the more than 7,000 large format retail stores between them to out-compete and out serve Amazon’s fewer than 200 North American fulfillment centers, increasing their View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
compare to the networks of line workers within those divisions. If theory is correct, corporate staff networks should be larger and more centralized than those of line workers. Stuart and Kleinbaum hit upon the idea of using workers'... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
process stalled in reverse. This study suggests opportunities for future empirical research. Future studies could analyze the evolution of once-comparable clusters such as the financial centers in Paris and London or shoemaking districts in different regions of Italy.... View Details