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- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
cost rather than simply hand it out for free at food shelters. For many people accepting handouts is embarrassing, Rauch says. “They want to provide for their family in a dignified manner. Retail, because the customer holds the power of... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
capital on their ability to secure resources. "In biotech it can take eight to ten years to develop a product and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to bring it to market," says Higgins.... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
entrepreneur than as a doctor. Luckily there is a solution, but there is only one: consumer-driven health care. Let’s take back our $2.2 trillion from the entrepreneur-suppressing status quo and allow consumers to reward those... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
manufacturing process. This in turn implies that once committed to a given partner, the cost of switching is very high. Loosely coupled interactions instead imply minimal asset specificity and enable a niche... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
monitor my investments as often as I like, and that I can perform all kinds of financial transactions from my home computer at a fraction of the cost I would have had to pay twenty years ago. In this sense,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
lofty target of commercial space travel, where he hoped to change the New Space sector as dramatically as Amazon was changing retail. His timing was characteristically prescient, since NASA was in the process of winding down its space... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
Playing on social media, particularly when the playful activity occurs in real time during a live event, can charm an audience—while in some cases costing little to do so. Dutch shipping container company... View Details
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
likely to rely on public welfare—they tend to be poorer and have more kids than native-born individuals—the opposite happens over a time horizon of 15 to 20 years. In aging societies, by paying taxes View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
and minimizes the expected time to detection under a pre-specified alternative hypothesis. We apply our method to a model in which the interdependency among the multiple adverse events is captured by a Cox... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-032.pdf Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten Abstract If a country's accounting standards represent a political-economic equilibrium, why is that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
“She also offered medical advice, delivery services, and prescription compounding—services not offered by department stores,” writes Sawyer. “Gleason also cultivated a reputation for providing indigent community members with medical... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
music and K-drama television shows in Asian countries, Chairman Jay Lee, of the South Korean conglomerate CJ Group, believed that the time was ripe for taking Korean cultural content to the West. One... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
W. Dunn, Dana R. Carney, and Dan Ariely Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract We predicted that able-bodied individuals and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
billion worldwide; that number, though still small compared to the approximately $85 billion that went to all male teams, is 15 times the amount invested in women-led companies in 2010. The latest research from Gompers View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
quantitative, large-sample study of digital cameras introduced from 1991 to 2006 by firms from three prior industries: photography, consumer electronics, and computers. By 2004, several features had emerged as a dominant design; however,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
Adelphia the 11th largest bankruptcy case in history, and the third—after WorldCom and Enron—among those triggered by fraud. Set in 2005, when Adelphia is contemplating several options to emerge from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
Abstract—We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
the economy that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of information technology (IT) in general and enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
demand for liquidity and immediacy into long-term lending of the kind that promotes growth and prosperity. And banks are the institutions with the expertise to do this. Thus... View Details
Keywords: by Staff