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  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

Financial history is not conventionally thought of in evolutionary terms, but it should be. Traditional ways of thinking about finance, dating back to Hilferding, emphasize the importance of concentration and economies of scale. But these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

From Local Tradition to Global Capitalism Oktoberfest, an annual festival held in Munich (Germany) for more than 200 years, has grown in recent decades into a hugely popular event that attracts 7 million visitors annually, a large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

symbiotic economic relationship that has developed between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America. The entry of Chinese labor into the world economy has significantly boosted the returns on capital relative to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

while respecting its unique hybrid business model that combined a collaborative open source community with more traditional strategic research services. The case follows CGTI from its initial goal of establishing a road map for the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

directions and the implications of this work for rethinking traditional categories of organizations, namely business and charity. September 2014 Perspectives on Psychological Science How Much (More) Should CEOs Make? A Universal Desire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

decide which customers to serve and which to turn away, configuring pricing strategies to align with the value delivery stream customers experience, and determining whether inbound marketing programs can generate enough scale or whether View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

of modern Chinese professionalism; the implications of professionalism as an import in China; the impact of socialism, the developmental state, and the rampant commercialism on the professions in China; and the feasibility of liberal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

influence when the vast majority can't? The authors tracked 68 change initiatives in the UK's National Health Service, an organization whose size, complexity, and tradition can make reform difficult. They discovered several predictors of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 26 Feb 2020
  • News

Phoenix Rising

expansion have to reach everyone, from the dock to the boardroom. In November, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Mitsotakis announced an investment by China’s state-owned shipping giant COSCO in the Port of Piraeus terminal in Athens.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

content to attract "eyeballs," and as a result, popular content may be excessively supplied. We empirically test this prediction by taking advantage of the launch of an ad-revenue-sharing program initiated by a major Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2023
  • News

Fail Better

that was the first struggle, because we had to convince our parent company. We also had to convince our traditional distributors, who make money off of people paying for cable, when broadcast is free. And the way we did that is by saying,... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

technology and develop a framework for understanding how software-driven medical devices differ from traditional medical devices. We identify opportunities and challenges for regulators and innovators in three main areas: (1) software... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

about innovation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55477 November–December 2018 Organization Science Slack Time and Innovation By: Agrawal, Ajay, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb, and Hong Luo Abstract— View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Lasting Impressions

strike. Afterward, from most accounts, much of the momentum behind the protests at HBS dissipated. The Class of1971 settled down to a far more traditional second-year experience, with some notable departures: there was a heightened level... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

economic times as its traditional business of manufacturing cameras and photographic film had all but disappeared with the rise of digital photography, causing its annual revenues to plummet from $13 billion to $6 billion, and its stock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

“The history of globalization warns against easy assumptions on the linearity of globalization.” Another instance is the highly influential "law and economics" literature, which emphasizes the importance of the common law View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Opening the Door

month, reviewing the numbers. I learned a lot about medicine that way. Wasn't your husband also in the health-care industry at the time? Yes. Under a push for funding from President Nixon, there had started to be more research and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

schools choose to display on their websites. First, the data strongly rejects patterns predicted by classic models of voluntary disclosure. In contrast with the traditional unraveling hypothesis, top schools are least likely to display... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

infrastructure development came from traditional international sources like the World Bank or African Development Bank, those lenders would worry about foreign exchange, interest rates, and political risk and would almost always seek... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman