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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
economies of scale or scope. Dental practices were typically a single office run by the same person who wielded the mirror and probe. Chains usually topped out around a dozen locations, which Singh concluded... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
incredible resilience in scaling up its workforce and using technology to make people more productive and to enhance workplace safety." Is automation a threat to jobs? If so, how should government, business, and employees respond?... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
Put differently, there appear to be fewer economies of scale in R&D than there used to be. The way companies define, measure, and reward excellent research has to change.—Henry Chesbrough So what... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
Abstract Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
That's when removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at scale becomes less a question of science and more a question of economics. The United Nations' climate change commission, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC,... View Details
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
has become more concentrated in recent years, with most of it now controlled by just 1,000 companies. That allows economies of scale and scope and very high returns of capital, all of which give those... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
530,000-square-foot Allston Science Complex — four multistory buildings, due for completion in 2011 — the centerpiece of the initial phase of Harvard’s 300-acre development on the Boston side of the Charles River. Both in the scale and... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
clearer in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the United States, the building of the railroads after 1850 led to the development of mass markets for the first time. Along with improved access to capital and credit, mass markets encouraged large-scale... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
then scale economies have the potential to be an obvious global advantage. Down To Cases The book's case examples and detailed decision-making maps offer a practical guide to some of the complex issues that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Financial history is not conventionally thought of in evolutionary terms, but it should be. Traditional ways of thinking about finance, dating back to Hilferding, emphasize the importance of concentration and economies of scale. But these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, strategy firms initiated a growth-driven hiring spree. However, as economies slowed, these firms faced a significant imbalance between their staffing “supply” and the declining demand for their... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
with the challenges of scaling up as well as huge opportunities in managing rapid growth. These countries also provide an innovation platform to justify tailoring and inventing products and services just for them. Khanna: Think about... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
forthcoming Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
classmates at Harvard Business School, and became fast friends over their passion for the gig economy and the future of work. They both spent their summer before HBS working with fintech-focused venture capital funds in India and the US,... View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
business model. If the model is characterized by increasing returns, demand begets still greater demand, as illustrated by eBay's success. A business may also benefit from significant scale economies if big... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
technologies, services, and products available through the ecosystem. In doing this, niche strategies trade off risk with productivity. Strong economies can often be found by niche players by leveraging a single platform—for example,... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Political Economy Costly Concessions: An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfectly Transferable Utility By: Galichon, Alfred, Scott Duke Kominers, and Simon Weber Abstract—We introduce an empirical framework for models of matching... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
without massive follow-on funding. This creates a catch-22 situation. A clean-tech company can't prove its ability to scale without actually scaling. And venture capitalists are wary of funding a company that can't prove its ability to... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54860 July–August 2018 Organization Science Learning by Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods By: Nagle, Frank Abstract—As the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
illustrates that in a gray market setting, the transfer price that maximizes a multinational's profits may also be the same one that maximizes the social welfare of the domestic economy that houses it. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace