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- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
you think? Original Article An entire generation brought up to regard many things in life—including communication and most intellectual property—as limitless and free is coming of age. They will join View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 21, 2007
do with an East Coast distribution center that is losing money but may be useful strategically. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807061 Prosper Marketplace, Inc. Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Competition of Countries
advantages. Singapore and Japan offer great examples of successful development strategies. Neither country has any natural resources. Both started out extremely poor, but over thirty years put together strategies that successfully View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
Distributed Innovation Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Systems of distributed innovation-so-called business ecosystems-have become increasingly prevalent in many industries. These entities View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
transformative research in developing markets, and ultimately with a broader objective to stimulate new conceptualizations, research, and best practices to transform consumer well-being. Three Cheers for Teaching Distributive Bargaining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
We prove that if a group of women employs truncation strategies or weakly successfully manipulates, then all other women weakly benefit and all men are weakly harmed. We show that our results do not appropriately generalize to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
potential profit drivers rather than the first troops to cut in a downturn. Ton's working paper, "The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality", examines how mundane activities such as stocking shelves, setting up displays, labeling, and returning unsold... View Details
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
poultry chicken he bred to address the nutritional and income needs of some of the poorest people on earth: India's rural villagers. As of November 2006, Keggfarms was supplying chicks to about 4 million poor villagers, generating incomes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
store customers or trading them to urban wholesalers and jobbers for needed supplies. Bartering reduced storekeepers' dependence on currency. It also created informal distribution networks for locally produced goods. For instance,... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
Harvard Business School 519-017 Tailor Brands: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Branding Using proprietary artificial intelligence technology, startup Tailor Brands set out to democratize branding by allowing small businesses to create their brand identities by... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
in general is too risky a strategy, and entertainment businesses should vigorously try to save costs in an effort to increase profits. But in my research I have found that betting heavily on the most likely blockbusters and spending... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
diffused into the market. The debate was this: Did Microsoft win because its Internet Explorer was the technologically superior product to Netscape Navigator, or was Microsoft just more successful at the distribution end by convincing... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
meaningless in some cases. "We can donate drugs. But if there is no infrastructure to distribute those drugs, we can't do any good," she observed. "I don't think the answer is necessarily about first slashing prices or... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
Indeed, a majority of the Bank's 185-member countries never receive a chance to sit at the table, suffering in tangible and less-tangible ways in terms of continued poverty for their people. In 2008 the World Bank's two main development institutions committed to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Organization Science Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intra-Firm Mobility and Access to Resources By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj Abstract—Prior research has established a relation between intra-firm mobility and innovation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
financial projections for the firm. Profitability analysis begins with calculating the revenue the firm will generate from sales of its products. Then, an analysis of variable and fixed costs is undertaken. Finally, these numbers are used... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas where seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to pay dividends, initiate dividends, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
contributed 50 percent to 70 percent of distributions in the industry in the past ten to fifteen years. With so much global liquidity, he added, it will become even more difficult to earn a respectable rate of return as too many dollars... View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
pricing trends. Read product reviews in industry journals. Quick-and-dirty market research can also help identify the dimensions along which customers are overserved. The other group of customers to look for is nonconsumers, who generally... View Details
- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
customer intimacy but product innovation; the CEO will need to spend time with his chief scientists, medical opinion leaders, government regulators, and CEOs of the companies distributing pharmaceuticals, but not so much time with end... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch