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18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women—a History

business, she said. Koehn focused on the subject of women entrepreneurs, citing HBS professor Howard Stevenson's definition of entrepreneurship as the "relentless pursuit of opportunity beyond resources currently controlled." She said that looking at women... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A. Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What she didn't find, however, was work linking the two.... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

03 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The State of Customer Service Leadership

still hold true. But a great deal of research over the past 20 years or so have put a lot of meat on those bones. As one example, we’ve come to learn more about creating the high-trust environment that leads to engaged employees who... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

Here's a cautionary tale of innovation woe: Nokia has consistently outspent Apple on phone-related research and development over the past decade, especially in the years leading up to the launch of Apple's iPhone. Between 2004 and 2007,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

volumes, and in the spirit of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts, I sought to pull together my research and conclusions in this book, in the hope of reaching broader audiences. I address three key themes. First, I show that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

rapidly changing. Harvard Business School Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl’s new research explores the business opportunities hidden among the stars, particularly in data from and through space, but also in tourism, manufacturing,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

technologies for drug discovery.) And patients with previously unmet medical needs can now get treatments that were not available before. That should be inspiring, he reminded the audience. Economic frustrations remain, however. Pisano cautioned that current data on... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative: Doug Rauch: Solving the American Food Paradox. The case was co-authored by Ryan Johnson, research associate with the Global Research Group. Rauch came up with one... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

November 2024
Article

Preference Externality Estimators: A Comparison of Border Approaches and IVs

By: Xi Ling, Wesley R. Hartmann and Tomomichi Amano

This paper compares two estimators—the Border Approach and an Instrumental Variable (IV) estimator—using a unified framework where identifying variation arises from “preference externalities,” following the intuition in Waldfogel (2003). We highlight two dimensions in... View Details

Keywords: Econometrics; Casual Inference; Marketing; Economics; Advertising; Mathematical Methods

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

I can answer that question. This research also raises the issue of gray zones in organizations. The trading of mutual funds once the market has officially cleared, the retribution by music publishers to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

28 Nov 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

agrees, of course. Comparing the simplicity of (especially short-term) responses to the complexity of the pay-for-performance challenge, Ravindra Edirisoorlya went so far as to say that "Current P4P model(s) may lead to another economic bubble and another strong... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

of) the perception of value." What do you think? Original Article Have you noticed that we are being bombarded by a flood of work by neuroscientists and behavioral economists, aided by such things as clever research design, the use... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Women Negotiating in the New Millenium

Organizations and Markets Group and Deborah Kolb, a professor at the Simmons College Graduate School of Management, discussed the topic at the Women Enriching Business panel "Women Negotiating in the New Millenium." "The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 5

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/kuziemko%20buell%20reich%20norton_3e675fb6-f83c-47fc-912d-e0c0b383e56d.pdf Working Papers Competing with Privacy By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Andres Hervas-Drane Abstract—We analyze the implications of consumer... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

in index funds while $310 billion exited actively managed funds. But have they become too popular? Researchers and analysts are increasingly concerned that managers in companies with a large number of passive fund investors can too easily... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

Professor William A. Sahlman calls "the problem of simultaneity." If, as the business school defines it, entrepreneurship is the pursuit of a business opportunity requiring resources beyond one's control, Polished was all opportunity and no resources. Rhyne... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

15 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 15

more: http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9780631215066_chunk_g978063121506624 Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

opposite: in today’s world, capital is mobile. If American companies cannot employ the best talent in the United States, they have two choices: risk becoming less competitive in an intensively competitive world; or locate your capital investments and your View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

Leadership Initiative was organized to be a catalyst for research on leaders and leadership, and to design effective leadership development programs that are relevant for the 21st century. The goal of the Initiative is to support Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

2016
Working Paper

Refugee Resettlement

By: David Delacretaz, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Teytelboym

Over 100,000 refugees are permanently resettled from refugee camps to hosting countries every year. Nevertheless, refugee resettlement processes in most countries are ad hoc, accounting for neither the priorities of hosting communities nor the preferences of refugees... View Details

Keywords: Refugees; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods