Complicity - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

anymore, but it is a useful reminder of how high the stakes can be. Roscini: Normally the parties reach an agreement, ideally under the auspices and rules of the WTO. The problem is that nowadays trade wars may have unintended consequences that View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

30 May 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?

sold, traded, shared, and stolen on an ongoing basis. When this is done across international borders, it complicates the matter further. That’s why the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

coauthored an essay to help students think through the complicated decision about where to go to college. Previous research has produced mixed results when it comes to the ripple effect of scandals. The Woods imbroglio may have hurt Brand... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

29 Feb 2016
HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

administrative support, all available via subscription through the cloud. A Chicago citizen enjoys the benefits of a Bigbelly trash compactor. Source: Kevin Zolkiewicz Getting to SaaS is complicated enough as a strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

08 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

positions of the various players in the smart grid market—infrastructure builders, software suppliers, network providers, utilities, system operators—in an effort to figure out who might benefit. "It's interesting to get some type of understanding about a View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The New CEO’s Wrong Message

the description? So are CEOs who are new to the role. Just when an executive feels he has reached the pinnacle of his career, capturing the coveted goal for which he has so long been striving, he begins to realize that the CEO's job is different and more View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

partners have a narrower view. For instance, decisions on where to source materials become more complicated if the multinational is trying to balance and manage a worldwide production process. Second, the multinational wants to leverage... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

wealth that was created. And the layoffs were carefully tailored to the needs of the business; they were not simply set arbitrarily high, to please Wall Street. In the case of United's restructuring, what impressed me was how complicated... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?

for many types of products,” MacKay says. “It might be really important for more complicated products, or products that you purchase less frequently.” Through its ability to affect purchasing decisions, consumer inertia can alter the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

02 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

worry about intervening too much." Increased Shareholder Involvement Ferri sees the increased interest in executive pay as an objective opportunity to recognize its importance as a complicated business decision with "huge... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

31 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

the platform will help streamline global trade since shipping goods internationally is an extraordinarily complicated and inefficient process. Maersk intends for stakeholders throughout the supply chain to utilize the platform, including... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

was the result of deleveraging and the post-Global Financial Crisis period, a mere cyclical phase. Distilling the sources and drivers of productivity decline was further complicated by the rise in economic integration across countries,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

a CEO's incentive to perform is in large part tied to what happens when he or she does not perform—a risk of getting ousted. But aligning a board to say we're going to start looking for someone else is a lot more complicated when the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

bit more complicated than originally anticipated. A new Harvard Business School case study called "Marketing the '$100 PC'" spells out these opportunities, problems, and challenges from a marketing point of view. As the case... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

complicity between workers and management. Perhaps most surprising of all, Anteby argues, is that the practice may help some organizations be more effective. Homer making keeps teams together and skills sharp during idle times in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

PhD. in biochemistry, said that even though issues regarding intellectual property and patent rights are ever more complicated by new discoveries, the language of the court remains very broad. However, there are a few basics to keep in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

11 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

The Business of Saving the Planet

"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Green Technology

25 Oct 2016
First Look

October 25, 2016

high-volume U.S. hospitals for delivering a primary total knee arthroplasty without major complicating conditions. Hospital and physician personnel costs were calculated using time-driven activity-based costing. Consumable supply costs,... View Details