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- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. “They didn’t know it would turn out to be a multibillion dollar industry.” “By definition, when an investor makes an investment, it changes the probability of success” In a new... View Details
Divestment or Engagement? New Research on Innovation in the Energy Sector
Why you should watch: A new and important NBER working paper, by Cohen, Gurun and Nguyen, takes a long hard look at innovation in the energy industry - and concludes that divestment campaigns targeted at fossil fuel companies may not just be ineffective.... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
How Marvel Comics Found Its New Superhero by Revisiting an Old Idea
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
“waver” over time in the relative weight they put on them. The model predicts that good news about fundamentals can trigger large price bubbles. We analyze the patterns of cash-flow news that generate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54331 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending By: Cutler, David, Jonathan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July–August 2012
- Article
The Growth Opportunity That Lies Next Door
By: G. Jones
This article uses the case of Natura, the largest Brazilian beauty company and one of the world's top twenty beauty companies, to explore how the logic of globalization is changing for corporations from emerging countries as growth opportunities in those countries... View Details
Keywords: Brazil; Marketing; Green Marketing; Environment; Globalization; Developing Countries and Economies; Geographic Location; Growth and Development Strategy; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Latin America; Europe
Jones, G. "The Growth Opportunity That Lies Next Door." Harvard Business Review 90, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2012): 141–145.
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
2017 New York: Oxford University Press Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship By: Jones, G. Abstract—This book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
accounting irregularities. Yet this investigation did little to dampen enthusiasm for the new personal health phenomenon, and rumors abounded of private equity deals in the offing. The key question for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Finding New Ways to Solve Civic Problems
As deputy majority whip in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Ryan MacKenzie (MBA 2010) has followed a path of community service and political involvement, transforming the business experience he received at HBS into an opportunity to bring View Details
- 30 May 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
barriers that limited firms' geographic scope and unleashing a seemingly unlimited set of new threats, challenges, and opportunities to create value globally. Globalization presents managers with an environment to create value that is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
important and lasting way of creating value and wealth in the new economy? Morten Hansen, Henry Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria, and Donald Sull argue that one type of incubator, called a networked incubator, represents a fundamentally View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
on an aggressive campaign to increase our profile abroad. The Class of 2001 will be more than one-third international, which is a huge jump. We have also increased fellowship funding by about $2.5 million for next year. In coordination with Citibank, we are offering a... View Details
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
innovation in design spaces related to new sports, like rodeo kayaking and kite surfing. The participants care passionately about their sport, and (because it is new), its design spaces are still largely unexplored. People can also be... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
the world’s biggest problem—CO2 and climate change—provides a quick and entertaining introduction to the science behind it. This concise primer is for anyone interested in how CO2 impacts our climate, but even knowledgeable readers will learn something View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
nonprofit—foundations, governments, donors—are usually different from the people benefiting from the work of the nonprofit. There are some exceptions in situations where fees are paid for services. But generally speaking a nonprofit CEO or board View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
And an audience of customers standing by with their smartphones to record any spectacle seems to have had, until now, unfortunately, no discernable impact on corporate policy guidelines for dealing with uncooperative customers. Companies... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
payments for the precise determination of a ship’s longitude. However, the prize did not prohibit patenting. We use a new dataset of marine chronometer inventors to show that the propensity to patent was high. We argue that while the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
When MBA students returned to Soldiers Field in the fall, they had nine new second-year courses to choose from, four with an emphasis on fieldwork. For faculty, developing a course affords the opportunity to draw on research and address... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
inadequate in the wake of a large negative shock to the system. Following an adverse shock, it becomes critical to emphasize dynamic resilience, which involves forcing banks to actively recapitalize—i.e., regulation needs to focus on getting banks to raise View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne