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    New Urban Mechanics

    Funding to scale Citizens Connect, Boston's 311 app, is both a blessing and a burden and tests two public entrepreneurs. In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics with a grant to scale Citizens Connect... View Details
    • September 2004
    • Article

    Trust in Agency

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
    Existing models of the principal-agent relationship assume the agent works only under extrinsic incentives. However, many observed agency contracts take the form of a fixed payment. For such contracts to succeed, the principal must trust the agent to work in the... View Details
    Keywords: Trust; Agency Theory; Relationships; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Contracts; Business Model; Emotions; Forecasting and Prediction; Ethics; Standards; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • 30 Dec 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Most Popular Articles of 2013

    Most Popular Articles 2013 How to Spot a Liar Key linguistic cues can help reveal dishonesty during business negotiations, whether it's a flat-out lie or a deliberate omission of key information, according to research by Lyn M. Van Swol,... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • January 2025
    • Case

    Intuition Robotics: An AI Companion for Older Adults

    By: Amit Goldenberg, Elie Ofek and Orna Dan
    Intuition Robotics, a startup that makes an AI companion robot to alleviate older adults’ loneliness, debates whether to pursue a B2C model or B2G route. If it opts for the government vertical, it must determine how to negotiate a favorable deal. Two weeks after... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Negotiation Offer; Business and Government Relations; Health Industry; Technology Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
    Since the 1990s, several Western firms have filed patents based on medicinal herbs from emerging markets, evoking protests from local stakeholders against 'bio-piracy'. We explore conditions under which firms and local stakeholders share rents from such patents. Our... View Details
    Keywords: Rents From New Technology; Local Stakeholders; Herbal Patents; QCA; Fuzzy Set Analysis; Qualitative Case Studies; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Patents; Emerging Markets; Health Care and Treatment; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • February 2022
    • Case

    NFX Capital and Moov Technologies

    By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller
    In July 2019, James Currier, a general partner at San Francisco-based NFX Ventures, was considering a seed stage investment of $1.5 million in Moov Technologies, a B2B marketplace for used industrial equipment. NFX was a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Network Effects; Marketplace Matching; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Applications and Software; Semiconductor Industry; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco
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    • 04 Sep 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

    What's happening in another part of the world that you could adopt and adapt in your environment? These disruptive innovations are not just novel inventions. Successful innovators take ideas and turn them into opportunities by adding a View Details
    Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
    • 12 Mar 2019
    • Blog Post

    What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program

    several market segments. In the program, we discussed several examples of unconventional business models formed to bridge some of these gaps (amongst them were agent-based banking, employer-paid education... View Details
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    Yaoxin Ding

    manager for a self-driving car Fiat was developing in collaboration with Waymo, Alphabet’s auto subsidiary. “But I felt that as the industry matures,” Yaoxin says, “the next steps involve bigger business challenges: building public... View Details
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    • 23 Jan 2024
    • Book

    More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World

    verify ownership—and potentially exchange it—NFTs enable markets to emerge. NFTs have enabled trade in digital images and media files (such as those Ape images we mentioned), as well as new business models... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology; Financial Services
    • January 2011
    • Case

    The Risk-Reward Framework at Morgan Stanley Research

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and David Lane
    The case describes the Risk-Reward framework that Morgan Stanley analysts use as a systematic approach to communicate a broader range of fundamental insights about a company rather than the traditional single point estimates. The goal of the framework is to focus the... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Statements; Forecasting and Prediction; Equity; Framework; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Business Processes; Research; Valuation
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    Economic Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC Competitiveness & Economic Development CED Competitiveness & Economic Development Frameworks & Key Concepts Research & Applications Frameworks & Key Concepts Frameworks & Key Concepts Drivers of Competitiveness The Diamond Model... View Details
    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    The Importance of Work Context in Organizational Learning from Error

    By: Lucy H. MacPhail and Amy C. Edmondson
    This paper examines the implications of work context for learning from errors in organizations. Prior research has shown that attitudes and behaviors related to error vary between groups within organizations but has not investigated or theorized the ways in which... View Details
    Keywords: Judgments; Learning; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Failure; Performance Improvement; Opportunities; Complexity
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    Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

    Ownership Model Shapes the Mistakes It Makes By: Josh Baron February 21, 2025 | Article | Harvard Business Review Digital Articles Why do some companies continue to thrive for decades and others die after an... View Details
    • 19 Feb 2018
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?

    iPhoto Jeff Bezos, visiting a Harvard Business School classroom 21 years ago, told skeptical students his goal with Amazon.com was to "sell everything to everyone everywhere." Even dog food? students wondered, which would... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
    • 12 Nov 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: November 12

    reciprocity measured after surprising an employee with a raise is fundamentally different from that posited to explain persistent above-market wages. Download working paper: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/Papers%20on%20RIS/oDesk.pdf   Cases & Course Materials Harvard... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    Game On

    business is bouncing along in the pro shop and Pickles café, where staff are dispensing espresso from a chrome appliance that looks sufficiently engineered to drive away under its own steam. Taken as a whole, the club’s amenities amount... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
    • Profile

    Soltan Bryce

    of large data sets in complex systems alongside the formation of a business case could be applied to my interest in sustaining public goods, like agricultural activities.” Throughout his college years, Soltan also worked on an organic,... View Details
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    About - Race, Gender & Equity

    About The Race, Gender & Equity Initiative brings together a global, multidisciplinary community of Harvard Business School faculty, alumni, and students to champion projects and programs that advance understanding, generate tools and... View Details