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  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

scream of a brave new world and traveling salesmen hawking IPOs instead of snake oil. (The connection, of course, may not be that distant.) As on any good frontier, there are not a lot of rules or marshals in town, so justice is rough and... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

Breaking The Hardest Stereotypes Is the work world ready to accept returning MBAs who want challenge in tandem with flexibility? Hart admits that not many firms have successfully developed such arrangements yet, though some industries and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

economic growth.” Blagg: What were your first impressions of China in the late 1970s? McFarlan: We were seeing a country that had missed the industrial revolution that happened in many other countries in the nineteenth century, and then... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 28 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208071 Fortis Healthcare (A) Harvard Business School Case 308-030 Should the Indian hospital chain enter the medical travel market or should it focus on expansion in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

level of maturity where scaling the business model was the next logical step. With two greenhouses already in Canada, he was looking into other locations in the U.S. Though Lufa Farms' advanced cultivation technologies made the company stand out in its sector, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

receive lower prices in return but also because, in some cases,firms provide better service. A: There are many examples of how firms exploit consumer personal information to improve online services. Retailers and travel agencies, for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

distribution services (GDSs)—such as SABRE—to reach travel agents. But GDSs held significant tactical advantages. For example, GDSs had signed long-term exclusive contracts with the corporate customers who were American's best customers.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

Journal of Law & Economics Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India By: Alfaro, Laura, and Anusha Chari Abstract—This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

supporting country organizations in Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Palestine, and Israel. If completed, it would eventually extend to encompass Abraham's travels to and from Egypt, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. With the endorsement of the U.N.'s... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

travelers who sought a more authentic and local experience than a typical upscale hotel might provide. onefinestay's brand had been "hacked" together quickly during the company's early years. After five years of rapid growth,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

question of social change and organizations. Some are anchored in more macro accounts of how and why social change processes occur, while others approach the question from a more psychological or social psychological perspective. Many of the chapters in the book View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

500,000 listings and counting. (By way of comparison, hotel industry giant Marriott offers around 530,000 rooms worldwide.) Airbnb, which has been valued at roughly $2.5 billion, recently closed a $200 million round of financing,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising
  • 04 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

and Australia; and industries include automotive, hospitality, real estate, manufacturing, and finance. Their biggest concerns fell into five categories: Cash flow and liquidity. “Payments [were] not coming in, but we had to make our... View Details
Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg
  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

adversarialism, relationships in place of transactions. They want to take their lives in their own hands and they are willing to pay for what we call the deep support that will enable them to do so. These new markets for deep support are an important force in the shift... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

important predictor of product performance, product variety, process flexibility and industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software industry by use of a technique called Design Structure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

those that return instantaneous results—even when those results are identical. In five experiments that simulate service experiences in the domains of online travel and online dating, we demonstrate the impact of the labor illusion on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

physical assets (such as health records); combining data within and across industries (to, say, coordinate supply chains); trading data (as mobile providers do with information on users' whereabouts); and codifying best-in-class... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs By: Battilana, Julie, Michael Fuerstein, and Michael Lee Abstract—For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

time to increase customer satisfaction. New research suggests there's a better approach: showing customers a representation of the effort, whether literal or not, being expended on their behalf while they wait. (The prototypical example is the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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