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- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
necessary to confidentially put exports at the center of growth strategies. An alternative view of the data suggests that export-orientation works if some other fundamental conditions are in place. These fundamental conditions should then... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
underscore the importance of understanding where open source is most used and could be vulnerable to attack. The report, ‘Vulnerabilities in the Core,’ a Preliminary Report and Census II of Open Source Software, was prepared by the Laboratory for View Details
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
Case 216-023 Models of Endowment Management: King's College, Cambridge One of the University of Cambridge's Colleges evaluates different asset management options for its endowment fund. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
Venture capital firms based in locales that are venture capital centers outperform, regardless of the stage of the investment. Ironically, this outperformance arises from outsized performance outside of the venture capital firms' office... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
Corporation Ltd.: Driving Change through Internal Communication Boris Groysberg and Michael SlindHarvard Business School Case 411-077 Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL), confronted in 2003 with an urgent need to change how it operated externally, adopted a highly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
talk of a couple of the new incubators going public themselves. Four leaders in the evolving incubator space — Timothy Rowe of Cambridge Incubator, Toby Corey of Intend Change, Flip Filipowski of Divine Interventures and Jeff Crown of... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
operations resumed to restock clients’ stores, although a significant number of B2C orders are still required by its clients. Case 2: Process innovation Faced with a sudden surge in home delivery orders, ChiSuper created thousands of... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
innovation in the world: open innovation, user innovation, and citizen innovation. Research into this phenomenon could do much to advance the study and practice of creativity. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
The pandemic is winding down, and the world is moving toward an endemic approach. In the world's COVID-19 epicenter, New York City, businesses, restaurants, and Broadway have reopened now that 4 million New Yorkers have been vaccinated. Testing View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
in operations, personnel, and culture. She adopted a variety of innovative approaches to making these changes, ranging from non-traditional hires to sitting for hours in call centers to personally answering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
Administration at Harvard Business School and a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Faia is a professor at Goethe University Frankfurt and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Consumers also cautioned brands about using humor or brand... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
knowledge, and expertise—the key resources required in the development and diffusion of innovation worldwide. So this increasingly important capability really is about using one's global presence to promote worldwide View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
time when many bemoan the lack of skilled workers. ASD is an umbrella term for several cognitive impairments, including Asperger syndrome. The United States Centers for Disease Control estimates one in 68 children have been diagnosed with... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
diffusion of the commercial internet. Theory predicts that firms with greater market share will be more likely to adopt innovations that build on their existing strengths, while they will resist more radical technological advances. While... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
resulting void at the center of the business school curriculum eventually caused business educators to take a second look at the discipline of economics. Economics, in the decades prior to World War II, had occupied a relatively weak... View Details
- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/skynesher) I will always remember November 11, 1977 as the day I drove a Ford Pinto into the employee parking lot of the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit. My vehicle was the only Ford product in a sea... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
of Nonprofit Organizations in June, a joint executive education program presented by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, and the Harvard Kennedy School. He will co-chair the HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
people to do senior managers all want innovation and risk taking in principle, but they don't have ways of measuring and evaluating it in the short term. So focus generally wins in larger, well-established organizations " What to do... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Research Summary
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details