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04 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

temptation on work performance. The idea for the study came from a conversation that Piovesan and his research partner Alessandro Bucciol of the University of Verona had with Daniel Houser, head of George Mason's Interdisciplinary Center for View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Nov 2021
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Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail

12 Jul 2004
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Enron’s Lessons for Managers

tragedy and a point of departure for thinking more carefully about the institutions humans have created to organize our economic lives, according to Salter. In a wide-ranging talk with Harvard Business School alumni on June 4, weeks... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Jun 2007
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Remembering Alfred Chandler

hagiographies. Alfred Chandler Jr. Chandler developed for business history a coherent theoretical framework built around his "3-pronged investment" in manufacturing, marketing, and management, and the notion of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Nov 2019
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Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

perspective, using basic economic principles—assuming customers prefer lower-priced products, for example—to build models that can begin to explain how consumers approach online search. (See Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007

Working PapersNone this week PublicationsFinancial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Author:Shawn Cole Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract In 1980, India... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

of business education. Washington served as principal of Tuskegee University, which provided vocational training in agriculture and industry, from its founding in 1881. 2 Du Bois believed a liberal arts education played a critical role in the View Details

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

Wasserman Taking the Game to a New Level: Zeynep Ton Finding Reason in the Irrational: Ulrike Malmendier Star Search: Boris Groysberg On the Case: First-Year Professors Develop a Taste for Teaching The Big Aha When Noam Wasserman enrolled... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

February 2021
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Yellow Digital Retailers: Providing Solar Electricity to Transform Rural Africa

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Frank V. Cespedes and Michael Norris

In 2020, Mike Heyink and Maya Stewart, co-founders of the Pay-as-you-Go Solar company Yellow were considering how to grow their startup. They had achieved some success in their first market, Malawi, and had recently entered Uganda, where business was slower. What did... View Details

Keywords: Solar Energy; Business Model; Business Startups; Developing Countries and Economies; Alternative Energy; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Green Technology; Salesforce Management; Diversification; Expansion; Energy Industry; Africa; South Africa; Malawi; Uganda

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

Introduction to Power and Influence for Positive Impact ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Power and Influence for Positive Impact $1,850 Next 6-week session starts August 20 Enroll Now Understand how power really... View Details

24 Aug 2020
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How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

from Firm-Level Surveys, was conducted by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Zoe Cullen and Associate Professors Michael Luca and Christopher Stanton, with colleagues Alexander Bartik, an economics professor at the University of... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

reflected both home country subsidies for wind energy and strong local content policies, while successful firms pursued successful strategies to acquire technologies and develop their own capabilities.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details

December 2014
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Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies

By: Juan Alcácer and Wilbur Chung

Geographically concentrated industry activity creates pools of skilled labor and specialized suppliers, and increases opportunities for knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these agglomeration economies may vary by firm, depending upon the relative value of... View Details

Keywords: Location Strategies; Location Choices; Agglomeration Economies; Strategy; Value Creation; Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Microeconomics; Manufacturing Industry; United States

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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

business' role in society and developing a thriving ecosystem for translating that research into action. Our Mission & Team BiGS Research BiGS Fellows Tools & Resources Societies worldwide are facing pressing social, environmental, and... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental

Ngoyi at the Fund for Export Development in Africa: creating sustainable development at scale. (Courtesy of Marlene Ngoyi) Born in Brussels to Congolese parents and raised in Gabon, Marlene Ngoyi (MBA 2009)... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investment; exports; infrastructure; life experience; finance; Finance

28 May 2020
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Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

economic recovery. Will any of these positive developments materialize? The fact is, forecasting the number of bankruptcies presents the same modeling challenges as forecasting the number COVID-19 cases.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

27 Nov 2000
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The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

Goodyear introduced its first belted-bias tire in 1967, Firestone's Research and Development group responded with a matching product in a matter of months and provided a second generation belted bias tire within a year.8 Belted bias tires... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

08 Sep 2008
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The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

14 Jul 2020
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Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

At the start of the pandemic, the uncertainty primarily concerned health issues—the diffusion of the virus and its effective threat. As the virus expanded from China to other countries, the uncertainty extended to the economic domain. For... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

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