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- 18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016
innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services that customers want to buy and are willing to purchase at a premium price. How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
extension, which historically has not been a matter of contention. The juxtaposition with a change in leadership at the Federal Reserve also adds to the concern. And finally, I think that businesspeople have long had an attitude that,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
As we work on challenging public problems, embracing the entrepreneurial spirit can help in developing solutions, says Harvard Business School Professor Mitchell Weiss in a new book, We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51704 Harvard Business School Case 902-412 Tobacco and the Future of Rural Kentucky Governor Patton decides how to use settlement funds to develop a long-term plan for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
visiting professor at HBS who teaches in the School’s FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) global immersion course, which sends groups of students all over the world to get first-hand experience doing business in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
maintaining and adapting this system in future. An important component of technical debt relates to decisions about system architecture. As systems grow and evolve, their architectures can degrade, increasing maintenance costs and reducing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
fascinating character to animate sometimes dry legalese.” Gleason’s quest for fair trade, or price protection, would not be easy. First off, the term “fair trade” in the 1930s had a different meaning than it does today when we use it to describe a social movement that... View Details
- January 2018
- Supplement
Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (B)
By: William R. Kerr and Gamze Yucaoglu
On November 7, 2017, Sidar Şahin, founder and CEO of Peak Games, a Turkey-based global mobile gaming company, had just closed the sale of Peak Games’ card games studio. This sale included three of the company’s top grossing games and half of its team. Sahin was happy... View Details
Keywords: Games; Gaming; Acquisitions; Exits; Private Sector; Decision; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Emerging Markets; Acquisition; Entrepreneurship; For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Making; Value Creation; Leading Change; Management Teams; Technology Industry; Turkey
Kerr, William R., and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 818-084, January 2018.
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
Developed in 2006, the Value-Based Health Care Delivery strategy includes a seven-part agenda to restructure health care. Part one calls for creating "integrated practice units," each organized around a particular medical... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
leadership roles. In addition, early performance ratings by high school teachers, as well as active participation in high school extracurricular activities both predict psychosocial development levels for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
value-added tax. We're the only developed economy that doesn't do it. We have state and local sales taxes, but we don't have any broad-based value-added tax. I think most tax economists have long thought it's a strange arrow to have kept... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
team.) Team members could click on each occupation ("Architectural Drafters," for example) to review information from a database developed for the U.S. Department of Labor. The database, O*NET, describes hundreds of occupations and breaks... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
organizational processes of developing a business model. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46978 The Liability of Leakage: How Indirect Ties to Competitors Impact Innovation in Entrepreneurial Firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49873 forthcoming Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Economic Development U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence By: Kerr,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
"freemium" business model, which is used by some Internet businesses and smartphone application developers to give users free basic features of a digital product and access to premium functionality for a subscription fee. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
at the level of (a) organizational collectives, (b) single organizations, (c) organizational building blocks, and (d) individuals. Building on this framework, we develop a general model that points to major avenues for future research and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Working PapersCPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We develop a model of online advertising in which each advertiser chooses from multiple advertising measurement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
was invited to give a talk on leadership at the American University of Cairo, the top English-language university in Egypt, for faculty, guests from the business community, and students in their emerging leaders program, so that was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Publications August 2013 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India By: Bhalotra, Sonia, Guilhem Cassan, Irma Clots-Figueras, and Lakshmi Iyer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
What should Jim do? The array of ethical choices forms the basis of discussion in the MBA required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Supply And Demand "Corruption can be defined as paying for a good or service in... View Details