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- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
firms face market uncertainty about consumers' preferences for innovation on two product attributes and technology uncertainty about the success of their R&D investments. Firms can conduct costly market research before setting R&D... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
are significantly different to the inter-industry vertical FDI visible at the two-digit level. These subsidiaries are not readily explained by the comparative advantage considerations in traditional models, where firms locate their low skill View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
Grushka-Cockayne, that executives should adopt a similar approach when it comes to using probability forecasts of business-critical issues; for example, the likelihood that product demand will increase by a given percentage next quarter.... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.27.4.65 Working Papers Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We decompose capital flows-both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
will be able to retain the work-life flexibility that they now crave. Employers will retain and attract productive people who will love their work life. Employers should seize the opportunity to modernize their relationship with... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
Globalization - Faculty & Research
competition, and earnings management affect mean reversion in accounting return on assets. Using a sample of 48,465 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that accounting returns mean revert faster in countries where there is more View Details
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
of backlash fostered by a long period of neglect of globalization’s effect on labor markets worldwide. Globalization takes many forms: common markets; free flows of workers including refugees and migrants; and multinational organizations... View Details
- 30 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?
of their scarcest resources." Another senior executive will ask whether creativity scales. Can an innovator be more productive with the substantial resources that a large organization can provide? Or does the process work better in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208126 Patient Flow at Meldon Hospital (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 608-172 This case is an e-mail that follows up on the original case, which describes a day at Meldon Hospital when the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
2022 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Financials From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financials From the CFO... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
West Coast headed to eastern ports, with a smaller flow of manufactured goods and agricultural products headed the other way. The canal supercharged the growth of the West Coast (at the expense of Venezuela... View Details
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
products from development to market at an ever more rapid pace." In the following excerpt, Kuemmerle examines two foreign R&D sites created to meet those two needs: a home-base-augmenting site, in which information View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
sorting work into departments, product divisions, and regions. Trouble is, managers in hierarchical organizations don't promote or reward risk and innovation—they rely on routine, and turn to the same trusted people to run key... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
examine the direct entry of platform owners into complementors’ product spaces. It finds that both the motivation and impact of such entries on complementors are multifaceted. The motivation behind platform owners’ direct entry goes... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
world stage. Armed with a $74 million branding fund, the President’s Council on Nation Branding began a multiprong effort in 2009 to position South Korea as an important global player, showcase its welcoming culture, and boost quality perceptions of its View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
Rush Limbaugh. Stern was an especially effective spokesperson. He got to know the founders of the business personally and conveyed to his listeners a genuine and infectious regard for the products and the people behind them. The brand's... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women
we can open the spigot and then those ideas would flow out. Our results suggested that there is.” Women-led inventions benefit everyone Although women often invent products or solve problems for their own... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
Competition Between Differentiated Products with Demand for More Than One Variety Author: Andrei Hagiu Abstract We analyze the existence of pure strategy symmetric price equilibria in a generalized version of Salop's (1979) circular model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
they eschew efforts—even bold, cutting-edge proposals—that are unlikely to generate value for customers, employees, or suppliers. “Companies that raise customer willingness to pay in a distinctive manner attract the very customers that find the firm’s View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost