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    Feng Zhu

    Feng Zhu is the MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he leads the Platform Lab within the Digital, Data, and Design Institute, co-chairs the Harvard Business Analytics Program, and serves as the course head for the... View Details

      Michael Y. Yoshino

      Professor Yoshino holds the Herman C. Krannert Chair in Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and is a Director of Research. He specializes in global strategy and management, competitive strategy, and general management. A founding member of the... View Details

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      Energy Strategy

      By: Forest L. Reinhardt
      Forest L. Reinhardt is writing cases and other materials on the strategic problems and opportunitites faced by firms in the energy industry. Significant economies of scale and scope, combined with rapid technological change, present firms in the industry with a... View Details
      • 08 Nov 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

      An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor cofounded a kidney donation matching system for New England,... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
      • March 1993 (Revised April 1995)
      • Case

      Singapore

      By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Edward Prewitt
      Since winning independence in 1965, Singapore achieved some of the world's highest rates of economic growth. A large part of GDP and employment came from direct investment by multinational companies in low-cost assembly work, but in the 1990s Singapore's rising wage... View Details
      Keywords: Transition; Decision Choices and Conditions; Development Economics; Economic Growth; Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Employment; Wages; Singapore
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      • July 2005 (Revised March 2007)
      • Case

      Kansai Digital Phone: Zutto, Gaining Japanese Loyalty

      By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez and James Robert Dillon
      Ted Katagi, marketing strategy manager of Kansai Digital Phone (KDP), utilizes customer lifetime value as a key metric to prioritize initiatives in an emergency plan to turn around the company. KDP is a regional phone company in Japan with less than stellar... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Satisfaction; Telecommunications Industry; Electronics Industry; Japan; United States
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      • 2004
      • Working Paper

      Thinking About Technology: Applying a Cognitive Lens to Technical Change

      We apply a cognitive lens to understanding technology trajectories across the life cycle by developing a coevolutionary model of technological frames and technology. Applying that model to each stage of the technology life cycle, we identify conditions under which a... View Details
      Keywords: Design; Fluctuation; Technology; Perception
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      • 16 Apr 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Breaking the Code of Change

      examining the strategies for change employed. Instead of this halfhearted approach, managers are better off picking a pure model: a clear Theory E approach with its benefits and costs or a pure Theory O approach with its benefits and costs. Theory E has as its purpose... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
      • April 2023
      • Article

      The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences

      By: Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David B. Huffman and Uwe Sunde
      Incentivized choice experiments are a key approach to measuring preferences in economics but are also costly. Survey measures are a low-cost alternative but can suffer from additional forms of measurement error due to their hypothetical nature. This paper seeks to... View Details
      Keywords: Survey Validation; Experiment; Preference Measurement; Surveys; Economics; Behavior; Measurement and Metrics
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      • 2011
      • Book

      Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance

      By: Bruce R. Scott
      Capitalism, as defined in this book, is an indirect, three-level system of governance for economic relationships (i.e., economic, administrative, and political). Whereas economic markets can coordinate supply and demand within an existing system thanks to the invisible... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Systems; Price; Governance; Government and Politics; Books; Markets; Relationships; System
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      • 20 Dec 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

      professor Noel Maurer and economic historian Carlos Yu discuss the canal's complicated economic and political history—including the first proposals dating back to 1529, the massive cost overruns associated... View Details
      Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
      • 11 Sep 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

      August 2018 Journal of Accounting Research Virtual Issue on Empirical Management Accounting Research By: Abernethy, Margaret, and Dennis Campbell Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54619 forthcoming Jackson... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • 22 Mar 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

      Hoffmann, a postdoctoral scholar at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard, and Yanuo Zhou, a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto. To quantify the dollar value... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Computer; Information Technology; Technology
      • 2010
      • Report

      State of the Region Report 2010: The Top of Europe Recovering—Regional Lessons from a Global Crisis

      By: Christian H.M. Ketels
      The 2010 State of the Region Report, the seventh in this series of annual evaluations of competitiveness and cooperation across the Baltic Sea Region, takes the Region's economic temperature in the first year after the full onslaught of the global crisis. The focus of... View Details
      Keywords: Trends; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Policy; Performance Effectiveness; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Baltic Countries
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      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

      By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel
      In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single user individuals or firms, and open collaborative innovation projects. We analyze the design costs and... View Details
      Keywords: Cost; Policy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Rights; Welfare
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        Jerry R. Green

        Jerry R. Green

        David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

        John Leverett Professor in the University

        Harvard University

         

        Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

        Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
        • January–February 2021
        • Article

        Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance

        By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Abbott, Michael R. Marino and Metin Aksoy
        By aligning executives’ financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard to get pay packages right. In this article four experts break down the key elements of compensation and explain how to... View Details
        Keywords: Executive Compensation; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy; Performance
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        • December 2013
        • Article

        Land Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China

        By: Meg Rithmire
        Despite common national institutions and incentives to remake urban landscapes to anchor growth, generate land-lease revenues, and display a capacious administration, Chinese urban governments exhibit varying levels of control over land. This article uses a paired... View Details
        Keywords: China; Land Politics; Urban Planning; Local Government; Northeast China; Property Rights; Urban Development; Property; Government and Politics; China
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        • January 2022
        • Article

        Replicating Private Equity with Value Investing, Homemade Leverage, and Hold-to-Maturity Accounting

        By: Erik Stafford
        The contributions of asset selection and incremental leverage to buyout investment performance are more important than typically assumed or estimated to be. Buyout funds select small firms with distinct value characteristics. Public equities with these characteristics... View Details
        Keywords: Replicating Portfolio; Private Equity; Investment Portfolio
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        • 2014
        • Article

        Corporate Governance and the Financial Crisis in Italy

        By: Dante Roscini
        The financial crisis hit Italy harder than many other Eurozone countries. In part this was due to the fact that the crisis came upon a system that was weakened by years of sub-par economic growth. One of the several endogenous factors that explain the stagnation of the... View Details
        Keywords: Financial Crisis; Corporate Governance; Italy; European Union
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