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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
and Joe Kiernan (MBA 2017) and based at the Harvard i-lab. Endorse.gg (“gg” is esports slang for “good game”) recruits esports “influencers” to represent brands to their audiences during streaming sessions. The data available on viewers and the high level of engagement... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
these curious combinations may have seemed financially attractive at their inception, they were now so functionally ill-conceived that the individual parts were worth more than the agglomerated whole. The M&A; restructuring of those 1960s... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
choice: accept an attractive offer from the Boston Consulting Group or take on the task of turning around Union Corrugating Company (UCC), a corrugated steel roof-ing and siding manufacturer founded in 1946 by Union’s grandfather. Eleven... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
impact? And how can Acumen build industrywide benchmarks on measuring returns in order to attract investors to the field? "I'm developing frameworks that can serve as diagnostic tools for organizations to help managers and front-line... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
platforms to fight off rivals and grow profits? Their ability to manage five aspects of the networks they’re embedded in: network effects, in which users attract more users clustering, or fragmentation into many local markets the risk of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
attracted criticism for its purely empirical approach, its failure to make consistently accurate predictions, and its pursuit of commercial objectives in a university setting. Harvard's efforts to build a forecasting service are an early... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006
that the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Standard has attracted companies with superior environmental performance. After developing quasi-control groups using propensity score matching, I also find that adopters subsequently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
high-performing facilities would attract more patients, boosting revenues. Costs would stabilize because hospitals would compete among themselves on the basis of prices, services, and results for the consumer. MAN WITH A PLAN: Candidate... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
that would attract and motivate a diverse global community. The challenge, of course, was to create a community of shared values and purpose from a much more diverse set of people ethnically, religiously, nationally, and so on. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
entrepreneurs who are creating an agricultural and IT powerhouse that is attracting the attention of the rest of the world, while corruption has been replaced with reforms and business deregulation that the West would be envious of,” he... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
region's burgeoning energy sector by attracting green-minded companies to the urban core and position Charlotte as a highly progressive business center. The idea was to make Charlotte the "new energy hub of America" and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
work-in-progress, it has evolved to a highly horizontal structure where specialists like Ardentec can carve out unique market opportunities that are less attractive to integrated manufacturers. The company has grown rapidly, but as it... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
of the total federal budget. By 1975, it was less than 1 percent. “The original programs were finished, the shuttle hadn’t begun yet, and we weren’t sending astronauts into space,” he says. Thompson began thinking about a new kind of organization—a private-sector firm... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
experimentation ex-post and one that funds experimental projects ex-ante. In equilibrium it is possible that all competing financiers choose to offer failure-tolerant contracts to attract entrepreneurs, leaving no capital to fund the most... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016
Starting in 1997, Mohammad Alabbar, Chairman of Emaar, has been largely associated with Dubai's most renowned real estate projects: the world's tallest building, largest mall, and biggest fountain show. Emaar's pioneering success View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
twentieth century, neither country would see such glory again. “Before 1914, [Argentina] was one of the most dynamic nations in the first global economy, attracting a record amount of foreign investment and massive inflows of immigrants,”... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5
profits at the extensive rather than the intensive margin, outperforming competitors by attracting a larger customer base. And fourth, higher competition intensity need not improve consumer privacy when consumers exhibit low willingness... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107061 Understanding Industry Structure Harvard Business School Note 707-493 Examines the structural determinants of industry attractiveness (the Five Forces framework) and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
heterogeneity inside the firm. Could they first start by broadcasting problems inside? There are always issues around managerial incentives, silos, and so forth, but certainly by the way we see open source communities and InnoCentive work, in fact, by broadcasting a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
total participation decreased 3 percent to 12,385 in fiscal 2024, the group’s innovative content continued to attract a diverse global audience. Focused Programs on leadership development and business strategy were among the key drivers... View Details