Comparability - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: January 5

pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites

I love to see if there's something that I care about—a company I've written a case on or an issue that I've covered—and I love to compare the articles and see what they share and what's different. I also really like IR magazine, which is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News; Publishing

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

such as D^3, the MBA program, Executive Education, and IT. There were 271 full-time equivalent (FTE) faculty members in fiscal 2023, compared with 272 a year earlier. Strategic investments in core programs such as Executive Education and... View Details

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Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online

questions Compare key stakeholders’ resistance and status-quo bias and develop a communication plan 35-40 hrs Course – 6 Modules Digital Marketing Strategy Craft data-driven digital marketing strategies that effectively reach, convert,... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Your Taxi Is Waiting

United States, the air-taxi model is a regional play; in Europe, it’s a Continental play,” Leiman notes. “The schedules are so inefficient in Europe that it’s impossible to do day trips, and airfares are also very expensive on a relative basis when View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 2013
News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

demographics of America shift," he explains. With a relatively short season compared to other sports leagues, the NFL has scored by developing the off-season draft and scouting combine into days-long, high-powered media events. This could... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2006
News

Down the Memory Chute

parties where you compared analyses. Invariably you went home depressed, convinced that you had argued yourself into a hopeless cul-de-sac and that the brighter minds had all gone somewhere else. Now It Can Be Told WAC student Gordon V.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

03 May 2013
News

Looking Through Glass, Historically

probably before, Bohemian glass wages were just a fifth of ours. "Beggar-thy-Neighbor" was scarcely a derisive term in the glass business, for as de Tocqueville pointed out in 1832, we were blessed with a comparatively large internal... View Details

Keywords: Visual arts; crafts; glass making; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

cognitive resources were recruited to enhance motivated reasoning regarding sweatshop labor, the latter of which was reduced under cognitive load. Experiments 3A and 3B found that when cognitive resources were specifically directed in a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

entrepreneurial momentum that builds during a downturn. If history is any guide, we can expect some significant industry shapers to emerge from the current crisis. During the 1930s alone—the period to which we often compare our situation... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?

study the effects, Gross compared inventions in patent applications from 1945, which were typically suppressed only about six months, with those from earlier applications, which had been kept under wraps for years. The latter, he found,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

05 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis

longer-horizon payoffs and favoring shorter-term investments. Steinwender compares it to the advice a grandmother would give: When you hit a crisis, cut back on what you can but not on what you need. “It’s perfectly rational to do that,”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking

06 Dec 2006
Op-Ed

India Needs to Encourage Trade with China

India at all, compared to the time that India spends agonizing over the Chinese threat. To the extent that they do think about India, my research in China suggests that they are focused on movies, software, and Buddhism, in a constructive... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

02 Feb 2002
What Do You Think?

Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?

that each did to levels of trust in our society was substantial. As a result, their implications for us are of comparable magnitude, suggesting that Enron be of more than passing interest. If so, what kinds of responses, especially to the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2024
News

Action Plan: Role-Play

into small businesses, where fraud is a particular problem, she says, because, compared to larger firms, “there aren’t as many controls.” She often found it helpful to go undercover as, say, a new accounting clerk, a bookkeeper, an office... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; photo by Christina Gandolfo; detective; private investigator; undercover; acting

07 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

methods, compared to statistics, of being stored in the brain, but because they are more likely to include distinctive details or context that aid recall. By contrast, statistics and numbers, being abstract concepts, can be harder for the... View Details

08 Sep 2015
First Look

September 8, 2015

in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Compared to Men, Women View Professional Advancement as Equally Attainable, but Less Desirable By: Gino, Francesca, Caroline A. Wilmuth, and Alison... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

1,000 cars per year as compared to, say, the Chevrolet division of GM, which has an average much less than 1,000. Moreover, the Japanese company has about 1,500 distributorships in the United States; Chevrolet has about four times that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

efficiently. His new research applies a similar framework to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. He wants to compare these four Asian economies because on the surface they share a similar perspective on FDI: They all welcome it... View Details