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  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

  Working PapersThe Seer of Wellesley Hills: Roger Babson and the Babson Statistical Organization Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract Roger Babson was a pioneer of the business-forecasting industry in the United States in the early... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial Administration after World War II. This episode illustrates the increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

to study must have had a compounded annual growth rate in revenues, profits, and market capitalization that exceeded the 50th percentile of industry peers between 1997 and 2006 or for the CEO's tenure. Corresponding figures were used for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

accounts—a tactic that consumers have already used at many online retailers. And industry norms let consumers find ways around almost any rule intended to block multiple purchases. For example, even when consumers are limited to a single... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology
  • 07 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

them."6 This may be true enough, but here Schumpeter extends the theme of cycles into something like a determinate paradigm. He attempts the hopeless task of fitting historical patterns of business booms and busts into predictable... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

Tarun Abstract—New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don’t yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308065 ScriptLogic®: Point, Click, Done! Harvard Business School Case 508-114 ScriptLogic is a software company that has built a product portfolio that fits under a 'Point, Click, Done!' umbrella; its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

James Heppelmann looked at how this shift is changing the structure of industries and forcing firms to rethink their strategies. In this companion article, the authors look at the effects inside firms, examining the impact that smart,... View Details
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

you'll find that very few actually wind up in the industrial sector, which had been the focus of the long-standing Business Policy course. When Kim Clark became Dean, he stressed that entrepreneurship—the pursuit of opportunity beyond the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

Applied Corporate Finance When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Evolving Directions in the Research and Practice of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become a crucial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

Road Map For Strategy And Execution By Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu Emerging Market Action Items: The frameworks and examples in this book point to several key action items for companies operating in and out of emerging markets. Experiment to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

and local governments will reach approximately $450 billion. Although per-pupil spending has more than doubled in real dollars over the last thirty years, student achievement has remained stagnant. U.S. students look mediocre, or worse, in comparison to students in... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

objectives of a laptop computer targeted at children of the developing world with the escalating content demands from the marketplace and the non-profit OLPC Foundation. It also had to fit the project into its company business model which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

smartwatch industry recently saw a dramatic uptick in competition. Apple had introduced its smartwatch the prior year, other established technology companies such as Samsung and Motorola offered smartwatches, U.S.-based View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

that Ponsse maintained its important characteristics as it expanded its global sales and service network? Information on the global forest industry is included. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

survivors, the future of e-commerce and other info tech industries seemed perilous. BusinessWeek.com recently ranked Amazon #6 in its annual list of most innovative companies; four of the other five are internet or computer businesses. In... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

trade-off between competitive price discovery and convenience. Evidence from eBay fits the theory: auctions are favored by less experienced sellers and for idiosyncratic products, and auction listings sell at a discount but with higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

Reorientation in New Ventures By: McDonald, Rory, and Cheng Gao Abstract—New ventures often experience deviations from their plans that oblige them to reorient in pursuit of better fit between their evolving products and their target... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

expand internationally with a regional focus on East Asia or, alternatively, a focus on the U.S. and other Western markets. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708479 HNA Group: Moving China's Air... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

industries may split apart. Untapped Potential in the Study of Negotiation and Gender Inequality in Organizations Authors:Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn Periodical:Academy of Management Annals, Vol. 2, Psychology Press,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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