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- 04 Sep 2013
- What Do You Think?
How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?
Christensen reminded us that the root cause of every business disaster is mistakenly pursuing short-term goals ahead of long-term ones." Daniel T. C. Lee commented, "Traditional or not, strategic planning has never restricted... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 2015
- Working Paper
Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street
By: Josh Lerner, Andrew Speen, Mark Baker and Ann Leamon
In the past two decades, patents of inventions related to financial services ("finance patents"), as well as litigation around these patents, have surged. One of the repeated concerns voiced by academics and practitioners alike has been about the quality of these... View Details
Lerner, Josh, Andrew Speen, Mark Baker, and Ann Leamon. "Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-068, December 2015.
- 2012
- Working Paper
Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency
By: Alvin J. Silk
What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts in interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Service Delivery; Competition; Conflict of Interests; Policy; Practice; Advertising Industry; United States
Silk, Alvin J. "Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency." Marketing Science Institute Report, No. 12-104, May 2012.
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
balance of trade in the 1960s, and the devaluation of the U.S. dollar and the end of its convertibility into gold in 1971, provided symbolic signs of the ending of an era. There remained many restrictions on the flow of capital, trade,... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 2015
- Working Paper
The Impact of Funds: An Evaluation of CDC 2004-12
By: Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, Steve Dew and Dong Ik Lee
CDC was founded in 1948 as part of the U.K. government's efforts to develop the economic resources of Britain's remaining colonies. Since then, CDC has pursued a series of strategies to "do good without losing money," as its original mission was phrased. Its approach... View Details
Lerner, Josh, Ann Leamon, Steve Dew, and Dong Ik Lee. "The Impact of Funds: An Evaluation of CDC 2004-12." Working Paper, October 2015.
- 16 Jun 2021
- HBS Case
Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm
challenges. “To get to a better place, you therefore either have to find ways to generate more cash, or reduce or restructure your liabilities.” In addition to aggressively cutting expenses, Carnival also negotiated with its existing creditors to extend debt... View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial markets. Her book manuscript and working papers shed light on the evolution of securities markets and the relationship between finance, governance, and society. Some of the topics she pursues include:... View Details
- Research Summary
Platform Competition
Technology has challenged the underlying foundations of business, and firms must evaluate and change strategies accordingly. Professor Halaburda studies the interaction of technology and economic theory, and her findings indicate that conventional wisdom and rules... View Details
- 09 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them
Keywords: by Kevin J. Murphy & Michael C. Jensen
- Research Summary
Political Economy and Effects of Gun Policy
In two projects with Mike Luca and Deepak Malhotra, I examine the causes and consequences of gun policy.
The Impact of Mass Shootings on Gun Policy
There have been dozens of high-profile mass shootings in... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
increasing your costs fundamentally changes the game being played. If your threat is not credible because the costs of following through are visibly high, you may need to lower those costs and make sure your counterpart knows they have dropped. 2. Visibly View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
states adopted a new series of weight restrictions and levying fees. Truck trailers passing through multiple states could be fined for excessively heavy loads. It became a balancing act for truckers to haul as much weight as possible... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?
Brand. Whereas, with AI, “we can get those answers in under 15 minutes,” he says. Using AI to run this type of analysis prior to embarking on a human study could dramatically increase both the efficiency of testing and the quality of the results, adds Israeli. “Because... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 22 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance
conditions are being met now, or could be met with low-cost policies.” Do ‘Ban the Box’ laws backfire? In recent years, 35 states and 150 cities and counties have adopted so-called “Ban the Box” laws that restrict or delay employers from... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
solution was to track audiences, use information about their browsing choices, and infer their interests. But tracking was challenged by privacy policies, as Google proposed restriction on the use of cookies, and Apple limited tracking by... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector
open-source standards were introduced. These eliminated restrictions on who can access and control the routers’ technical specifications. “We could keep track of everything. With other industries, you just can't do that.” In all, the... View Details
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
remedy inequalities. One limitation of our research is that our results are restricted to our US dataset, which may call into question whether the two Ortega parameters are also the best measures in other datasets, including in other... View Details
- 25 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?
gloves, and they get back in. That’s a total waste of fan time. Infielder deployment restrictions might help offense (e.g., on left/right side of second base and not in the outfield). But I consider View Details
- 05 Jun 2023
- What Do You Think?
Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?
business practices that employ AI Apart from restrictions on human behavior, I doubt that any regulations on AI could be very effective." Rafael Fernandez MacGregor said, "I see one simple regulation to begin with. ‘You break it, you pay... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
makes it harder for the smaller company to compete.” Both companies added a huge number of customers from the pandemic lockdown, and Yoffie says it’s “unknown” how the end of those restrictions will affect their markets. Slack’s antitrust... View Details