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- October 1994
- Case
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery rescued its plant from the labor riots of 1987 to make it the fastest improving shipyard in the world by 1994. With its competition in Korea making huge investments in additional capacity in anticipation of the end of the... View Details
Keywords: Management; Machinery and Machining; Performance Improvement; Manufacturing Industry; South Korea
Upton, David M., and Kim Bowon. "Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery." Harvard Business School Case 695-001, October 1994.
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in perfect and efficient capital markets, reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
economic theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to facilitate efficient capital allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP, as shaped by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
Unfortunately, though, experts frequently make lousy teachers. Experts are sometimes so steeped in expertise that they don't remember what it was like to be a newbie—in terms of both how much they knew and how they felt back then. The... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
trace the theory’s evolution from a technology-change framework—essentially descriptive and relatively limited in scope—to a more broadly explanatory causal theory of innovation and competitive response.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 2025
- Working Paper
Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI
By: Nicholas G. Otis, Solène Delecourt, Katelynn Cranney and Rembrand Koning
Generative AI has the potential to transform productivity and reduce inequality, but only if adopted broadly. In this paper, we show that recently identified gender gaps in generative AI use are nearly universal. Synthesizing data from 18 studies covering more than... View Details
Otis, Nicholas G., Solène Delecourt, Katelynn Cranney, and Rembrand Koning. "Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-023, October 2024. (Revised January 2025.)
- Article
Buyer-Initiated vs. Seller-Initiated Information Revelation
Sales presentations are the core of the selling process where salespeople provide information to prospects. One challenge is that the amount of information available to be potentially communicated may exceed salespeople's ability to communicate or customers' ability to... View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
Publications January 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Bank Regulation, Capital Structure, and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
study seeks to understand the effect of access to sex selection technologies such as ultrasound, and consequently skewed sex ratios, on the marriage market and intrahousehold outcomes of females in India.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Rogers breaks in. “OK, guys, let’s try and keep the rest of these to about a minute.” He has other calls to make. On the next call, travel options are weighed (Toulouse? Berlin? Paris?) for meetings with a potential European collaborator.... View Details
- October 31, 2022
- Article
Achieving Individual—and Organizational—Value with AI
By: Sam Ransbotham, David Kiron, François Candelon, Shervin Khodabandeh and Michael Chu
New research shows that employees derive individual value from AI when using the technology improves their sense of competency, autonomy, and relatedness. Likewise, organizations are far more likely to obtain value from AI when their workers do. This report offers key... View Details
Ransbotham, Sam, David Kiron, François Candelon, Shervin Khodabandeh, and Michael Chu. "Achieving Individual—and Organizational—Value with AI." MIT Sloan Management Review, Big Ideas Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy Initiative (website) (October 31, 2022). (Findings from the 2022 Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy Global Executive Study and Research Project.)
- Article
Fake AI People Won't Fix Online Dating
Computer-generated images may inspire even more distrust and surely won’t lead to the love of a lifetime. View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Dating Services; Internet and the Web; Ethics; AI and Machine Learning
Kominers, Scott Duke. "Fake AI People Won't Fix Online Dating." Bloomberg Opinion (January 16, 2020).
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
funds and in angel networks. Q: How has all of this activity influenced the work of scholars? A: As it became clear that traditional theories did little to explain the behavior... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- December 2001 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
Ben Fiorentino: Selling the Family Business
The caseescribes the challenges Ben Fiorentino, the second-generation head of a family-run equipment business, must deal with as he decides whether and how to sell the business. The business is encountering classic problems that confront family-owned firms: The third... View Details
Watkins, Michael D. "Ben Fiorentino: Selling the Family Business." Harvard Business School Case 902-052, December 2001. (Revised March 2003.)
- Career Coach
Troy Peterson
Troy (HBS’19, West Point ‘08) has 15+ years of experience in technical program management, organizational leadership, and product development & operations. Troy has worked in roles across the tech ecosystem from startups/growth... View Details
- 26 Sep 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Dangerous Expectations: Breaking Rules to Resolve Cognitive Dissonance
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
provide illustrations from the Toyota Motor Company to show how deliberate perturbation enables efficient exploration in the midst of intense exploitation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-011.pdf Employee Selection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2012
- Chapter
Problem Solving and Search in Networks
By: David Lazer and Ethan Bernstein
This chapter examines the role that networks play in facilitating or inhibiting search for solutions to problems at both the individual and collective levels. At the individual level, search in networks enables individuals to transport themselves to a very different... View Details
Keywords: Network Organizations; Search; Problem Solving; Individual; Individuals And Teams; Collective; Cognitive Search; Network Search; Search Typology; Networks; Social and Collaborative Networks; Theory; Knowledge Sharing
Lazer, David, and Ethan Bernstein. "Problem Solving and Search in Networks." Chap. 17 in Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms, and the Brain, edited by Peter M. Todd, Thomas T. Hills, and Trevor W. Robbins, 269–282. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI
By: Pierre Azoulay, Joshua L. Krieger and Abhishek Nagaraj
Drawing insights from the field of innovation economics, we discuss the likely competitive environment shaping generative AI advances. Central to our analysis are the concepts of appropriability—whether firms in the industry are able to control the knowledge generated... View Details
Azoulay, Pierre, Joshua L. Krieger, and Abhishek Nagaraj. "Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 7442, May 2024.