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- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
features. "Do I want my business phone to play music?" The key to living in a multiple-device life is a standard way of sharing information between devices, such as via data cards and network communication, said Susan K.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
says. “Once the bank balance sheet is handicapped, all kinds of other consequences come out. For one, for example, banks are less likely to lend.” Not all countries and sectors relied as heavily on land and buildings to secure debt. Using a measure of real estate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
characteristic. A reluctance to discriminate emerges if workers share the gender or birth month of the worker from the worse-performing group, but even then, a small "excuse" counters this reluctance. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
IT systems that handle a good chunk of the work, Quelch says. Yet consumer trust when it comes to data privacy is not always a given, and consumers want to have a say. Some people fear that information about a serious disease diagnosis or a visit with a mental health... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
habits as well, such as a growing preference for sharing items rather than owning them, and encouraging "showrooming" where shoppers visit stores only to test products—then buy them more cheaply online. The user benefits from lower cost,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
country's lead in innovation. “R&D is a critical part of the innovation process, but it is not the whole thing” In this excerpt, Pisano and Shih discuss the concept of the "industrial commons." In the past a commons—a shared farming... View Details
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
they're so much in the background and taken for granted within each society. Q: How will nationalisms play out in the future vis-à-vis globalization? A: If we were to think about how societies think about themselves in terms of national identities, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
suggest that in many commonly regulated markets in which firms share similar cost structures, firms are likely to experience incentives to ratchet down and delay the introduction of innovative products. The study highlights the importance... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
determine the direction workplace envy takes. Contributors are drawn from many countries and from an extraordinary range of disciplines to share their insight: experimental social psychologists offer insights from lab studies,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
a large majority of those who contribute to the open source community do so in order to learn and share new knowledge and skills, over half cite direct payment for their work or the chance to improve their employability as motivating... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
Case 516-059 Ocado In 2015, U.K.–based Ocado was the world's largest pure player in the online home-delivery grocery business and was gaining a growing share of the highly competitive U.K. grocery market. Ocado had made heavy investments... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-002.pdf Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity Author:Eric Van den Steen Abstract This paper develops an economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture—in the sense of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
http://hbr.org/2012/03/does-america-really-need-manufacturing/ar/1 Choosing the United States Authors:Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract The U.S. is not winning its appropriate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
vaccines,” he says. “Even if we convince just one government to invest more, the social returns could be enormous.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: iStockphoto/Nordroden] Stocking up on masks? How will you prepare for the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
senior writer for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: istockphoto] Related Reading: You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why. How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence Research Paper: Stereotypes and Belief Updating Do... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
African business leaders prioritized the use of capitalism to lift up Africans, and the African continent. Family values, not share prices, were what drove the big Latin American business houses. These projects together show the much... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
essentially demands acceptance of a massive expansion & transfer of a conscription power which is currently limited to Congress and not available to any government agency.” ZBV may have been responding to a comment by superf88 that, “Apple’s right to View Details
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
investing clubs can be incredibly valuable," he says, recommending that investors find a group of 10 to 15 people who can share information and provide feedback on their trades. "The group decision will surely be better than any... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
Content Commercialization: Evidence from Blogs, published last year in Management Science, Zhu and coauthor Sun, of Boston University, bring an empirical approach to a question that has had many anecdotal responses but no firm results: How does the monetary promise of... View Details