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- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
technology is an important part of the story here. What would it take to get commuters out of their cars and into public transit? I envision a subway system with stops further apart, so long-haul transit can... View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
teaching hospitals, we find evidence of a gradual trend of decreasing performance that begins several months before the actual cohort turnover and may result from a transition of responsibilities at major teaching hospitals in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Layoffs That Don't Break Your Company: Better Approaches to Workforce Transition By: Sucher, Sandra J., and Shalene Gupta Abstract—Today layoffs have become companies’ default response to the challenges created by advances in View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- February 2000 (Revised November 2000)
- Case
Women.com
By: Myra M. Hart and Sarah S. Khetani
Entrepreneurs Ellen Pack and Marleen McDaniel have founded a women's online network and watched it grow from an online subscription service in 1992 to one of the best known, widely visited women's networks on the web in 1999. While the company's vision has remained... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Partners and Partnerships; Initial Public Offering; Networks; Transition; Web Services Industry
Hart, Myra M., and Sarah S. Khetani. "Women.com." Harvard Business School Case 800-216, February 2000. (Revised November 2000.)
- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
empty. Dennis Campbell and Tatiana Sandino discuss their new case study. How to Be a Rebel Leader In the book Rebel Talent, Francesca Gino argues companies should encourage rebellion in their workplaces. Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now? View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
investors, and builders can learn from the African experience, where public-private partnerships and deployments of new technologies are illuminating new ways to approach the task of funding infrastructure despite a scarcity of government... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
School Case 515-052 Philips Healthcare: Marketing the HealthSuite Digital Platform In June 2014, leading healthcare and consumer technology company Royal Philips (Philips) announced its HealthSuite Digital Platform to house healthcare... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
displace—producer innovation in many parts of the economy. We argue that a transition from producer innovation to open single user and open collaborative innovation is desirable in terms of social welfare and so worthy of support by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
and James WeberHarvard Business School Case 511-065 Kevin Laracey, founder of Paydiant, needed to figure out how to launch a payment processing company with a new technology based on smart phones. Consumers had increasingly turned to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
stronger, more durable system, private capital would take the "first loss" in the event of a housing market downturn. After a multiyear transition period, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should wind down. Unlike the past, the... View Details
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
Consistent with Lerner-Tirole (2004), we find (a) a negative relationship between the extent to which an SSO is oriented to technology sponsors and the concession level required of sponsors and (b) a positive correlation between the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details
- May 2018
- Article
Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change
By: Edward L. Glaeser, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
Data from digital platforms have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification and enable new measures of how neighborhoods change in close to real time. Combining data on businesses from Yelp with data on gentrification from the Census, Federal Housing... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting Models; Simulation Methods; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, And Changes; Geographic Location; Local Range; Transition; Analytics and Data Science; Measurement and Metrics; Economic Growth; Forecasting and Prediction
Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change." AEA Papers and Proceedings 108 (May 2018): 77–82.
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
issues, dynamic pricing; and automated vehicles. Improving mass transit systems that connect to other forms of transportation. Making the US easier for foreign visitors to enter. An infrastructure bank to make targeted strategic... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
explores the changes that have taken place in the consumer television receiver market and the challenges faced by leaders of the analog market, like Sony. It is intended for use with the technical note, "Competency-destroying View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
influenced not just by the decisions it makes and the assets inside the company, but also by the surrounding business environment in the locations at which the company operates. The business environment shapes the skills, knowledge, and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Creating sustainability transitions will require more than companies taking proactive measures in their own operations and supply chains. Fostering significant change will also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Working PapersThe Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community Authors:Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards Abstract In this paper, we examine the motivations of large information View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
new study of physician offices transitioning to electronic health records (EHRs) used in managing patient care. In general, larger offices in the study that employed EHRs recorded productivity gains, but certain types of smaller practices... View Details