Creating Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

failure resulting from asymmetric information. However, if platforms can impose exclusive dealing, then they will do so, which results in market inefficiency. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-080.pdf View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

founder and CEO of Spire, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services.Making good on those long-term goals, Platzer says, was the result of building a very specific mission for himself while he was at HBS: "To lead, inspire, and View Details

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

and based in Michigan, the company had a proud history of product and marketing innovation starting with its first product, Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes, which created the cold cereal category. In recent... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

That is why we introduced pep+ (PepsiCo Positive), our strategic end-to-end transformation, with sustainability at the center of how we will create value for our shareholders and all our stakeholders. Climate action across our supply... View Details

11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

facilitating their entry at larger firm sizes. On the other hand, the process of lowering financing constraints democratized entry and created a lot more churning among entrants, particularly at the low end of the size distribution. Our... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

Source: Geber86 When a worker struggles to meet the demands of a particular position, the problem may not be with the employee—maybe it’s the job’s design that is wrong. A poorly designed job can work against even the most dedicated employee, setting the person up to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

business and policy realms. Climate is a space where you need to lean into policies to shape incentives, which can, in turn, create incentives for new business models and growth opportunities. The IRA is a great example of how policy... View Details

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Competing on a Common Platform

Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details

13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

within an organization to be effective leaders and to accomplish their personal goals. Executives are urged to examine their lives to discover major themes, interests, and values, using that examination to create a short statement of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

and learning." We found that the education-and-employment connection remains too tenuous in America. To create more pathways to upward mobility in the post-COVID recovery, policymakers, employers, and educators must prioritize and scale... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

cash buffer made me more comfortable. I took out student loans in my first year and a smaller amount in my second year because I received the newly created Forward Fellowship that year. By my second year, I also had a better sense of my... View Details

30 Jun 2022
News

Scaling Hope

35th reunion at Dartmouth College. “People thanked me for telling their story,” he recalls. “There is so much stigma around addiction, and people don’t really share that they have this problem going on in their family. That creates a... View Details

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

tackle different sorts of markets or different sorts of problems.” How to boost patents by women In recent years, progress has been made toward gender parity in science, as more women enter STEM fields and enroll in technical degree... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

(ICUs) studied by the University of Minnesota. For example, while one of the two largest hospitals in Spokane County, Washington, was 92 percent occupied, the other was only 30 percent full. Hospital administrators could help alleviate capacity problems by View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

Article

Navigating Talent Hot Spots

By: William R. Kerr

Innovation clusters like San Francisco and Boston have long had an outsize impact on the global economy, and their influence keeps growing. In 2017, for instance, America’s ten largest tech hubs accounted for 58% of U.S. patents. Globally, cities such as Tokyo, Paris,... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Innovation and Invention; Urban Scope; Industry Clusters; Innovation and Management

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23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

market and innovation-driven organizations to decipher how social interactions and dynamics, which undergird all markets and organizations, affect the way people make economic decisions and take actions that... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

confronting Starbucks in the early 21st century. For more than 15 years, Starbucks has grown swiftly and successfully, helping create a large, dynamic market for specialty coffee, building one of the world's... View Details