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21 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

or Europe. In fact, an herbal medicine patent was 85 percent more likely to be authored by someone with an Indian surname than was a similar control patent. "It's a great example of first-generation immigrants carrying very... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology

05 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

the authors of Channels of Influence, by Harvard Business School Associate Professors Lauren H. Cohen and Christopher J. Malloy, and Umit G. Gurun, an associate professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. “When nearly half of anything... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

their research, public firms invest less than half as much as private firms of similar size and industry—and private firms are 3.5 times more responsive to changes in investment opportunities. The authors argue that this is largely due to... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

27 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

aren't purposefully bad, says Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who has authored several business management books, including Confidence: How Winning and Losing Streaks Begin and End and SuperCorp: How Vanguard... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

poor can pay for what they need, and scale is not a challenge but a friend. In 2003 it had over one million clients, said Chu. Microfinance was not the purview only of ACCION, however. In 1992, Bolivia's Bancosol, he said, became the first commercial bank regulated by... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

Entrepreneurship, has been teaching courses in real property since the 1970s. The author of many books on the subject, including, most recently, The Real Estate Game, Poorvu sees the housing issue as suffering from a lack of... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

08 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

important part of how businesses operate, and that can only increase going forward.” “Increasingly, the tech architectures inside firms are a source of competitive advantage.” In a new industry and background note written with HBS research associate Matt Higgins, the... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices. Discounted cash flow and net present value, as commonly used, underestimate the real... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

Women don't have a problem developing an effective leadership style. What they do struggle with more than men, however, is claiming the authority to lead, according to Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn. The gender gap in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

we can design and manage our most imminent environments—our neighborhoods, may they be of physical, social, or intellectual nature—to best support knowledge creation, diffusion, and performance outcomes. About the author Sean Silverthorne... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

growth. Being self-aware and asking for help is a super power, and no time is too soon to get started. About the Author Julia B. Austin is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. [Image: FatCamera] Other stories by Julia Austin... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

18 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon

authors wrote. Additionally, the researchers found that under a contingent free shipping policy, a promotional discount in a particular product category becomes more attractive to shoppers. The reason: the product discount might further... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

21 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Missing the Wave in Ship Transport

notes the folly of that strategy, quoting marine historian Martin Stopford, author of Maritime Economics, a leading treatise on shipping: "If so many owners had not had the same idea, this would have been a successful strategy." The heavy... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation

19 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

Influences on Megachurch Pastors is an early-stage paper that looks at how leaders maintain the values of their institutions even as their industries rapidly change around them. Using the example of pastors who oversee enormous churches, the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

30 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

reports. The paper, authored by Julia Adler-Milstein, an HBS doctoral candidate in the Health Policy Management program; Sara J. Singer, assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School; and HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

29 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

corporations, the CEO is selected by a higher authority (the board of directors) acting on behalf of the shareholders, which gives him strong positional power to shape the company's direction, strategically and organizationally. The PSF... View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

Business School Press), a new book by HBS professor Dorothy Leonard and Professor Walter Swap of Tufts University. The authors not only disprove the stereotypical perception of group creativity as an oxymoron but show how the group... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

05 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

creativity, its measurement, its investigation, its development, and its importance to society. The authors are the 24 psychological scientists who are most frequently cited in the four major textbooks on creativity, and they can thus be... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 4

Festival-Beyond the Festival Template Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), dubbed "the greatest literary show on earth" was an annual event held in late January at the Diggi Palace in Jaipur. JLF provided a platform for international View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

explores how the nature of risk itself has changed over time. It highlights key aspects that have shaped the evolving industry, including shifts in risk engineering and risk management, the development of actuarial science, and the impact of changes in political and... View Details