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19 Nov 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Lessons from IBM in Nazi Germany

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones; Information Technology

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

Even as citizens generate more data than ever before, most cities haven’t taken full advantage of that information flow to improve services and become more efficient. “Historically, cities have been moving in analog, trying to measure... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

1992
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On the Organizational Determinants of Technological Change: Towards a Sociology of Technological Evolution

By: L. Rosenkopf and M. Tushman

Keywords: Organizations; Change; Information Technology; Society; Science

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Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations? Explaining Entrepreneurial Performance in Britain Since 1850

By: Tom Nicholas

Research into culture and entrepreneurship in Britain has been dominated by casual empiricism. This article shows the benefits of using a new method. Lifetime wealth accumulation is specified as a measure of entrepreneurial performance, and applied to data collected... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Performance Evaluation; Biography; Culture; Education; Wealth; Research; Great Britain

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01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

as the economy shifted from a mainly rural, agrarian model, to a city focused, factory based one We are witnessing the same happening now as we shift to the post information era. Not clear if enough new jobs will be created to replace the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

2022
Afterword

The Internet's Effects on Consumption: Useful, Harmful, Playful

By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Society

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April 2019
Case

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement (Abridged)

By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris

In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues.... View Details

Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership

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15 Oct 2001
Op-Ed

Lessons from the Rubble

the advent of the virtual economy does not remove the constraints of the physical. Planes smashed into buildings on September 11, and information was incapable of stopping them. Firms lost physical assets—computers, files, desks, and... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

26 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

2001 to 9 million today), especially girls. But the bad news is they have no jobs to look forward to. Although stability and security facilitate investing for the long term, they are not enough. Afghans must have credible information... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

Summing Up Does Social Equality Improve Productivity? Inequality in our society is an important and growing issue. It prompted a debate among respondents to this month's column about the causes, specifically the role played by innovation... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Debora L. Spar

privacy online, and their property as well. So even though the technology may change, it doesn't necessarily bring everything in society along with it. Q: Is there anything about the Internet that is different from past innovations such... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

As partisan vitriol flies in the final month before the US presidential election, a new study offers insight into the question of why people share political misinformation. Even when a news article would flatter their political party, people tend to expect that sharing... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

2022
Article

Which Corporate ESG News Does the Market React To?

By: George Serafeim and Aaron Yoon

Using a dataset that classifies firm-level ESG news as positive and negative, we examine how stock prices react to different types of ESG news. We analyze 111,020 firm-day observations for 3,126 companies and find that prices react only to issues identified as... View Details

Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; Social Capital; Environment; Sustainability; CSR; Stock Price; Stock Market Expectations; Materiality; Market Reaction; Environmental Sustainability; Governance; Social Issues; Performance; News

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17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business of Babies

foster care, the vast number of children available for adoption is the most obvious "low-tech" solution to satisfy demand. However, this availability is complicated by racial preferences (most people want children who look like them), View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

How can managers better identify, describe, and confront the issues of environmental and social sustainability that their companies increasingly encounter? One answer is One Report, a method of integrating information about financial and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

Additional information and data gathered from the event is expected to be distributed later this year. "We need a vision that says transportation and infrastructure (are) important, so important that a lot of people have to come to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

11 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

The world’s refugee population has exploded over the last decade, straining the resources of international resettlement agencies as staff struggle to keep up with manually matching millions of refugees and asylum seekers to host countries. Artificial intelligence and... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Information Technology

February 2008
Case

Entrepreneurial Leadership in Forming High Tech Enclaves: Lessons from the Government of Andhra Pradesh

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ramiro Montealegre and Espen Andersen

This case provides an overview of the entrepreneurial leadership taken by the government of India's Andhra Pradesh state in promoting the IT sector and using it to improve the status of the state's economic position in the early years of the third millennium. View Details

Keywords: Economic Sectors; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Business and Government Relations; Welfare; Information Technology; Andhra Pradesh

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July 2020
Technical Note

Digital Natives Growing Without a Sales Force

By: Das Narayandas, Michael Norris and Amram Migdal

This brief case describes the rise of so-called digital natives (also called born-in-digital) in the 2000s and 2010s that successfully grew without a sales force. The case highlights the emergence of business-to-business Internet and cloud-based companies and their... View Details