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- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
of Weak Interests By Gunnar Trumbull Empirical studies have consistently shown a capacity to coordinate when the collective interest is both material and evident. One of the early studies to assess the impact of group size on coordination... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
If one thing has been made clear by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is this: The health care system in the United States (and most other nations) is not set up to respond to a large-scale medical emergency that affects tens of thousands of... View Details
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
"The benefits to travelers and the reduction in pricing power of hotels is really concentrated in particular cities during certain times," says Chiara Farronato, a co-author of the study. "When hotels are fully booked, Airbnb expands the View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
receive lower satisfaction scores than banks serving customer bases with less dispersed needs. Finally, a longitudinal analysis of the deposit growth of all federally insured banks in the United States from 2006 to 2017 reveals that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
system of expense allocation, and anti-inversion legislation—reflect the intuition that building "strong fences" around the United States advances American interests. This paper examines the interaction of a strong fences policy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We examine the golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking U.S. patents to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson and Penn State professor James Detert explored the challenges employees face speaking up to internal authorities. Their research focused on behavior in large,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
These structures determine a firm's motivation to seek protection, as well as its capacity to overcome collective action problems within its industry. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
(i.e., the profit obtained during liquidations stated as a percentage of the cost value of liquidated assets) by 2 to 7 percentage points in the cases we examined. The paper also identifies ways in which current practice in store... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We test our theory in the context of vehicle-emissions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2010
- Case
Playa Dorado
By: W. Earl Sasser
Playa Dorada Beach & Resort in Boca Raton, Florida, faces a growing seasonal demand for tennis services. The number of guests is expected to double in the next few years, and while the tennis facilities are a popular and well-promoted amenity at the resort, court space... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
cases that makes them so enduring?" Saki, Sizzle, Sayonara Case: Benihana of Tokyo Written: 1972 Copies Sold: 269,584 Touring the United States in 1959 with his Japanese university wrestling team, twenty-year-old Hiroaki... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
of the action. When participants do not "see" or feel responsible for the whole, a dynamic ecosystem can easily evolve into a state of dangerous instability, as in the financial crisis of 2008-09, or even collapse, as in the Internet bust... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- December 2006 (Revised September 2007)
- Case
Ponsse: From Finland to Global
By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
Finland-based Ponsse Oyj, with 2005 turnover of $250 million, is the only dedicated forest equipment company of size that remained in a consolidating industry. Competitors included global giants such as John Deere and Komatsu. Since his arrival at Ponsse in 2004, CEO... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Capacity; Expansion; Forest Products Industry; Forestry Industry; Russia; Finland; United States; Brazil
Bell, David E., and Mary L. Shelman. "Ponsse: From Finland to Global." Harvard Business School Case 507-002, December 2006. (Revised September 2007.)
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
trained for a mass-casualty event but had never envisioned the magnitude of what they now saw. This case describes how they rapidly expanded the critical care capacity available so as to be able to handle the unexpectedly large number of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- September 2011 (Revised October 2011)
- Case
Scotty Smiley
By: Scott A. Snook and Doug Crandall
U.S. Army Lieutenant Scotty Smiley faces the biggest challenge of his young life. What will he do after learning that the wounds he received from a car bomb in Iraq have left him permanently blinded? On April 6, 2005, Lieutenant Scotty Smiley was grievously wounded by... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Personal Characteristics; Customization and Personalization; Personal Development and Career; Work-Life Balance; Performance Capacity; Planning; Employment Industry; United States; Iraq
Snook, Scott A., and Doug Crandall. "Scotty Smiley." Harvard Business School Case 412-058, September 2011. (Revised October 2011.)
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
avenues to address obstacles for Ensina!'s execution found in navigating national education policy and funding, forging partnerships with municipal and state governments, confronting widespread cultural perspectives on teaching as a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—We study the role of ethnic Chinese/Indian migrant inventors in transferring contextual knowledge across borders and the role of ethnic networks in further disseminating such knowledge. Using a unique dataset of herbal patents filed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
extent to which they hold should films longer than want films decreases. Our results suggest that myopia has a meaningful impact on choice in the field and that people may learn about their myopia with experience and, as a result, gain the View Details