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- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
ways that avoid the mistakes of industrial policies in the past. Empirical evidence is also mixed with some recent work suggesting that much of the potential and for export growth and export diversification into more attractive View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
Fútbol By: Elberse, Anita Abstract—Markets for soccer players are winner-take-all markets in which a select few top players earn extremely high rewards. The search for effective talent strategies in these conditions has led clubs to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
(forthcoming) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/bvillalonga/VillalongaAmit_FM_Final.pdf Working Papers Banking Market Concentration and Consumer Credit Constraints: Evidence from the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
books that purport to be balanced and coolly analytical raise questions about the company's economic impact. A case in point is Charles Fishman's The Wal-Mart Effect, which describes the company as having a "decidedly mixed economic... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
beneath the radar," they really mean "taking advantage of asymmetries of motivation." Disruptive markets start among customers that appear to the incumbent to be either undesirable or nonexistent. The initial absolute size... View Details
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
twin mirages of short-term profit or stock market valuations. They have a grand vision for the future of their organizations, and they infect others with their energy, enthusiasm, and integrity. These are the leaders we write books about,... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
field studies, researchers tend to think that workers submit resumes to open positions. In fact, scholars have learned a lot about discrimination in labor markets by sending resumes to job postings to see who gets called back and who... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
efficiency benefits of market transactions Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-091.pdf Leveraging Waste: Implications for Competition and Welfare (revised) Author:Deishin Lee Abstract We study the competitive and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Cost-Accounting/9780132109178.page Mixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gaston Llanes Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We study competitive interaction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
industry to measure to what extent waiting-time performance impacts different firms' market shares and price decisions. We report on a large-scale empirical industrial organization study in which the demand equations for fast-food... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
for HBP’s three market groups—Corporate Learning, Education, and Harvard Business Review Group. As a result, total Publishing revenue increased 3 percent from the prior year to $310 million. Publishing’s growing worldwide influence was... View Details
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
sociologist at Harvard Business School. His parents were an interracial couple who fell in love in the 1960s, when mixed marriages faced scorn and sometimes worse in many parts of the US. Even so, he said, they always believed in the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 17 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)
will evaluate innovative strategies to create new marketplaces and opportunities, we will examine the key challenges in competing with large incumbent firms, and how incumbents can defend their market shares. We are going to discuss... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
the Colorado Sun. The acquisition was backed by a mix of national and local impact investors. “While impact capital has made a huge difference in other social-problem areas, there has been no front door for impact capital in the news... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
outwardly the situation smells of economic anarchy. Where are the market forces, when thousands of talented programmers—and even many commercial firms—spend inordinate amounts of time writing and sharing computer source code: an activity... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
been normatively accepted in a country or industry, the more it benefits a firm’s market valuation and revenue. These findings demonstrate the importance of the broader social contexts in shaping the consequences of gender diversity.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
reversion to very early hiring or the use of a centralized matching system such as that used for medical residencies. We suggest, however, potential avenues by which the clerkship market could stabilize at something like its present... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
77 percent of its profits from outside North America. But Goizueta's strategy soon ran into trouble, due in large part to the Asian currency crisis. By the end of 1999, when Douglas Daft took the reins, earnings had slumped, and Coke's stock had lost nearly one-third... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
evaluating new opportunities, we should base our decisions on marginal costs and revenues. The book cites the fall of movie rental giant Blockbuster. Ten years ago, the company decided not to explore the market of then-upstart Netflix,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel