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- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
which enables us to present both cross-country and industry-level evidence. We establish robust cross-country correlations between increased international financial integration and the activity of entrepreneurs using various proxies for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
regulations. The solution is to remake the barrel with new legislation and new regulation. I believe there are elements of truth in both of those poles: we have bad apples, and there definitely are some problems with the barrel. But the solutions both poles View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
new industries in Japan are things like highly skilled specialist personnel; a lack of risk capital because of heavily controlled financial markets; barriers to commercializing university research; and limited incentives for risk taking.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
FDI" in several different ways. First, we look at the possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average skill intensity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
frog design, LUMA Institute), we have developed a semester long, cross-disciplinary, “doing” course that presents students with a conceptual framework for a human-centered innovation process and provides them with tools for engaging in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
months” Sell the experience. A magician can be highly skilled in illusion techniques, yet may not know how to perform--or sell--the experience in a way that will resonate with an audience. In the same way, successful companies have... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
let CEOs control which candidates are presented to the board. This is a mistake because CEOs typically won’t choose successors who are quite different and may undo their strategies. The board has more emotional distance from the CEO job... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
of life as a mosaic." One insight she and her colleagues gained from offering the program was that women want to hear more about each other's experiences. "An idea for future sessions of Charting Your Course," Hart says, "is to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
analyses, specifically, to compute net present value (NPV) internal rate of return (IRR) and payback period. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207121 Vivaldi Food Concepts—The Start-up of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
bringing them to market. Though this article presents the three diagnostics linearly, they are rarely conducted in a linear fashion. Teams or individuals searching for disruptive opportunities can start with any of them. The results of... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
company can operate. At the core of the business environment is the cluster, or the group of interconnected firms, industries, and institutions present in a particular field. Examples of clusters include Silicon Valley, Boston in asset... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
prototypical large-enterprise form in contemporary emerging economies. By exploring the evolution of the diversified business groups organized around British trading companies from the late eighteenth century until today, this chapter demonstrates that such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
mediocrity is the desired outcome. Also, in America failure is acceptable. Learning from failure can be an important element of future success. These entrepreneurial values are not necessarily present to the same degree in other... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
funds exhibit no better skill at asset allocation. Furthermore, funds sold through brokers demonstrate more performance sensitivity than funds sold through the direct channel. While the costs of brokers' services are relatively clear,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
employee monitoring makes the case that if business owners are interested in their customer-facing workers learning and making progressively better decisions over time, they're far better off taking a hands-off approach and granting more freedom for decision-making.... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
says. “What we’re asking is, can we build algorithms that will help find better matches that will allow people to integrate more easily?” The paper presents data from Switzerland and the United States that showed promise in using machine... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
to practice and from simple to complex, the present paper builds on that work. It illustrates several classes of practical measures that negotiators can use to advance their own interests by focusing on the other side's Level II... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
likable, and successful—but something derails them. In other words, the daunting challenge for many leaders and aspiring leaders isn't poverty or oppression or lack of skill or opportunity. It is, paradoxically, the very thing they aspire... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
elements. First, we study beliefs and values about the economic system present in Peron’s speeches during the period 1943–1955. Second, given that these beliefs are nonstandard (for economists), we present... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne