Emerging Industries - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Sep 2008
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behavior. We examine the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary prediction tasks. Theories of the Gambler's Fallacy and models of binary prediction suggest that recency bias, elicited by... View Details

13 May 2014
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how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder return. Beverage industry firm... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2011
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corporate governance literature of the past decade has focused on identifying drivers of superior or deficient corporate governance. One of the most rigorous methodologies uses firms' reactions to industry shocks to characterize the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Apr 2010
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led to the emergence of new industrial clusters around the world. In this paper, we examine how "first nature" location fundamentals and "second nature" agglomeration economies jointly... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Sep 2006
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through successive stages of industry evolution. We then show how this strategy was used by Sun Microsystems against Apollo Computer in the 1980s and by Dell against Compaq and other personal computer makers in the 1990s. Download working... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

problem in the health care industry comes partly from a clash of interests. Doctors are passionate about addressing the individual needs of each patient, while regulators and policy makers are intent on having one piece of legislation... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

15 Oct 2013
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coordination. Yet some work settings operate with fluid personnel, making stable team structures with ongoing relationships infeasible. We study the adaption of team structures for fluid work settings in a hospital emergency department... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

significantly enhance economic growth and job creation at the local, regional, and national levels. In the next post in our series, Mills will look at the emerging industry of online lenders that are... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking

01 Jun 2013
News

Five Bright Ideas

technologies to come) is needed to develop that knowledge. "Education is a $3 trillion industry globally, and no player in the world controls even 1 percent of it," he says. "I think there will be a Facebook or Google in learning. I'd... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

12 May 2009
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illustrates how deep dives guide the formation of a set of new core activities in the variation-selection-retention process. No PDF is available at this time. PublicationsWhat Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2020
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Meal Plan

at a white-tablecloth restaurant. This year is looking a little different. On May 8, as some states loosened dining-in restrictions and others maintained strict guidelines for takeout and delivery only, the Bulletin held a virtual roundtable on the future of the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

07 Aug 2012
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at this time. Publisher's Link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199730858.do Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in High Risk Endeavors Authors:Faazia Rashid and Amy Edmondson Publication:In Restoring Trust in Organizations and Leaders: Enduring... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Feb 2014
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These new establishments were concentrated in industries where women entrepreneurs have been traditionally active and the entry was mainly found among household-based establishments. We measure and discuss the extent to which this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

April 1993 (Revised May 1994)
Case

General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (A)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Katherine Seger

Designed to generate discussion on the issues of outsourcing from the perspective of a firm thinking about turning over its IS activities to a third-party vendor. View Details

Keywords: Management Systems; Management Style; Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Business Strategy; Economic Systems; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Processes; Employment; Emerging Markets; Activity Based Costing and Management; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry

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22 Jul 2014
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whether to locate a packaging industry new business in his native Malawi or in the larger market of Nigeria is examined. Conflicting opinions on the case are offered by businesspeople with experience in Africa. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Trained as an industrial engineer, Tucker is interested in the perspective of frontline workers in productivity and process improvement, including how internal supply chains and other... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

29 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives

Giovanna Abramo (MBA 2022) spent the last three years prior to HBS working at Bain & Company in Mexico City where she worked on performance improvement, strategy, and operational model redesign projects across industries like consumer... View Details

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Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog

deploy capital across a variety of industries and sectors. Modules explore: Module one focuses on the Family, the bedrock of the organizations that comprise the collective Family organization, specifically, the virtues that define the... View Details

February 2018 (Revised October 2024)
Case

Hikma Pharmaceuticals Governance Journey

By: Lynn Paine, Suraj Srinivasan and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens with Said Darwazah, chairman and CEO of Hikma Pharmaceuticals, the multinational generics company, anticipating the company’s 2017 AGM and reflecting on changes made over the previous year to address concerns expressed by proxy advisors and some... View Details

Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Pharmaceuticals; Remuneration; Shareholder Engagement; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Executive Compensation; Business Growth and Maturation; Emerging Markets; Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Pharmaceutical Industry; Jordan

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November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
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Drilling South: Petrobras Evaluates Pecom

By: Mihir A. Desai and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho

The Brazilian oil company, Petrobras, is evaluating the acquisition of an Argentine oil company, the Perez Companc Group (Pecom). The acquisition would increase Petrobras' oil reserves and expand its interests outside Brazil, a significant step for the largest company... View Details