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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
impact on both students and business leaders,” he says. Examples include conferences, webinars, and more SIPs, which offer access to cutting-edge research on a faster timeline than the traditional academic-publishing cycle enables. The... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying and building technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is involvement in View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
at most 3-way cycles, i.e., by using cycles among no more than 3 patient-donor pairs. However, as kidney exchange has grown in practice, cycles among n>3 pairs have proved useful, and long chains... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
digitization of information goods have changed the commercial landscape: Virtual shelf space is infinite, consumers can search through innumerable options, and the marginal cost of reproducing and distributing products is low. What does... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
that allocates capacity efficiently. Although downstream firms have symmetric production technologies, we show that industry structure is symmetric only if capacity is sufficiently scarce. Otherwise it is asymmetric, with one large,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
a medical device engineer working on products for Operating Rooms and Intensive Care Units. I came to school passionate about access and equity in health care, and curious about systemic barriers to resources that allow communities to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
affected by XML technology. Ballmer concluded by noting that any business whose product can be delivered electronically (e.g., publishing, music) will do well on the Internet. But all CEOs, he said, should ask themselves, "What is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration. “That makes it more likely that employees will be creative in their thinking and productive in their work. So you get this... View Details
- 23 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
How I Sourced My Internship Outside of the US: Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu
huge wave of funding and I wanted to contribute,” Nyantekyi-Owusu said. “They never had an intern before, but by using the HBS resources on how to propose an internship I was able to put together a pitch.” OPay was excited to bring Nyantekyi-Owusu on board into a role... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
differentiated product in a commoditized business, even if it’s becoming less so through competition. Some of the stuff we do is fun, and whimsical, so it makes good copy. The media reports on our tall beds for tall people, our “Guppy... View Details
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
WWII planes, boat docks, and everything in between. My role was to help them design a more sustainable operating and funding model to ensure their long-term viability within the park service. Before I started at HBS, I was a medical device engineer working on View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
in bringing their products to market, yet we know very little about the kinds of strategies they can employ to influence regulatory actor decision making. In this paper, we highlight a firm's strategic use of symbolic signaling in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
has a positive effect on current hours. As we show, the model also has reasonable implications for stock prices. We estimate our model for data post-1984 and show that the innovations shock accounts for nearly a third of the variation in output at business View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
cannot get out of health care, no matter what kind of health insurance system is put in place. They bear the cost of poor health in the form of sick days, absenteeism, reduced productivity at work, and early retirements of skilled... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
proponent of product life cycle theory, the late Raymond Vernon, disavowed it on the grounds that developing countries no longer remained focused on old, low-tech products. Traditional trading companies may... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
made-in-Japan products and concepts to Godiva’s other markets. How could Chouchan keep the momentum and sustain Godiva Japan’s top-line and bottom-line growth going forward? Would he be able to keep the balance between aspirational and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
together, we interpret our results such that those individuals most sensitive to business cycles are enticed to lower the quality threshold, the bar, for turning existing ideas into new ventures during downturns, resulting in negative... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
use process mapping and time-driven activity-based costing to measure the costs of treating patients over a complete cycle of care for a specific medical condition. With valid outcome and cost information, managers and clinicians can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
specific new product- or service-development project that would be their focus for the next 12 weeks. As these students are experiencing firsthand, it’s one thing to hypothesize about product development in an emerging market. It’s quite... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
integrating operations to avoid corruption. The difference, the authors believe, lies in the choice between “push” and “pull” investment. MNCs seek growth by pushing current products onto emerging middle-class consumers. They retain some... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne