Barriers To Entry - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

consumer-driven health care system if they do not innovate. But, as indicated in the complimentary letters from Aetna's president and Wellpoint's CEO received by the Harvard Business Review, some of the insurers are not barriers View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2022
News

Case Study: Welcome Aboard

will offer a starter pack that contains all the electronics. A $25 refill includes four disposable patches, which Cass estimates to be a one-month supply for an endurance athlete. The data and the app are free. Although there’s a bit of a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

advantages by being first in developing their technical and functional capabilities that provided barriers to entry. The Evolving Paths In Consumer Electronics In consumer electronics, the commercializing of... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology

20 Dec 2018
News

Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni

research strategies and tools available,” he says. “The event was timed as an early evening event outside working hours and provided a valuable reminder to those of us in Europe that distance is not a View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

experiences. She is building upon the School’s efforts to increase access and affordability and remove financial barriers for talented applicants and students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. Harvard... View Details

03 Feb 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

Summing Up Implementation or "execution" can be taught. Whether business schools are the best places to do it remains a question with the readers responding to this month's column. For many, the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 2000
News

Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney

practice designed to "bridge" the gap between the seemingly disparate worlds of corporate management consulting and nonprofit organizations worldwide. Tierney, who serves on the Board of Directors of the Associates at HBS, is also at work... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

03 Jun 2021
Blog Post

HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund

Small businesses are a major growth lever for wealth creation and employment in the United States. Yet, many BIPOC-led and owned businesses currently face systemic barriers to raising capital, including... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Turning Point: Change, Stat

system that pays for quantity without regard to quality and opaque regulations, in fact one study found that nearly 80 percent of the rules patients and physicians cited as barriers View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; healthcare; medicine; innovation; interpersonal communication; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

02 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

true? As it turned out, good teams, which value communication, report more errors. In a recent research paper Edmondson and doctoral student Sara Singer explore this and other hidden barriers to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea

diverse skill set is just what we need to address climate change.They just needed an entry point. So I decided to create “How to Create a Climate... View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue

noteworthy. In a plenary session titled "The Economic Crisis in Asia," Sugisaki urged Asian authorities to lower barriers to trade and investment and View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Check In

were in 2019, so it’ll be very economical. When you arrive, you’ll probably check in with your phone, which also will be the key to your room. As a trend, keyless entry will really be accelerated by the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hotels; COVID-19; real estate; Accommodation; Hospitality

01 Jun 2024
News

The Exchange: Chance Encounters

Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

are so interrelated. Q: What's happening in the Gulf? A: We have seen increasing liberalization of the Gulf economies, for instance, the lowering of barriers to trade for foreign companies. These changes... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

and what has stayed the same. It will present an analysis and social commentary on the access to business power in the country. Is it open to all? How has it been achieved? How have View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

proceeds into the new deal, the only investors asked to do so. After considering the time we already had been in it, and that it would be a cross-fund investment (touting to one fund what a great exit it was... View Details

25 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

have to be, say, United Airlines to take advantage of these tools. Managers can now purchase off-the-shelf products that can mine Twitter or Yelp and develop a detailed analysis of how sentiment is changing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

insisted that the greatest barriers for inner city development today are negative perceptions. These areas are not just economically distressed because of social issues, he said, adding that unless businesspeople take steps View Details