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- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
their desires to help make their organizations more effective and responsive. I met many individuals with great ideas and insights working in large organizations that seemed to be enacting policies or producing products that didn't... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
platform-based products (applications) and users of such products. We show that the unique equilibrium under platform compatibility leads to higher profits than the symmetric equilibrium under incompatibility. Notwithstanding,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Abstract This paper presents an endogenous growth model that explains the evolution of the first and second moments of productivity growth at the aggregate and firm level during the post-war period. Growth is driven by the development of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
emerged from bankruptcy. “I did the quick calculation that you could buy and control all the US (gun) capacity for about $2 billion,” he said. His colleague sitting nearby, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, chimed in. “As the owner, you could do... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
technology) to get a new business, product or project off the ground. In a turnaround, the new leader takes on a unit or group that is recognized to be in trouble and works to get it back on track. Both startups and turnarounds involve... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
previous one. The question was, "Why did this happen?" What were the causes of the problems, and what could leaders do about them? Jan Rivkin: By many current measures, America looks all right today: we have an enormously View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
would not be achieved even if the product offered a payout ratio comparable to U.S. insurance contracts. We present evidence suggesting that lack of trust, liquidity constraints, and limited salience are significant non-price frictions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
overstretch ARK's organizational capacity and risk failing to maintain the highest quality of delivery? Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309036 Allston: Brand vs.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
enterprises and their capacity to pursue joint social and financial goals over time. I start by discussing how exposure to diverse organizational contexts and gender affect the founding of social enterprises before presenting the distinct... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
philanthropy. We have to take care of all stakeholders—I say customers, vendors, employees, shareholders, and the society in which you work. You can't produce a bad quality and high cost product and then say, 'I go to the temple and pray'... View Details
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
the context of vehicle emissions testing in a state in which the government has outsourced these inspections to the private sector. Analyzing millions of emissions tests, we find empirical support for our hypotheses that particular View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
investigation into many aspects of service management. For example, while product design and development have received a great deal of attention, the subject of service design has not been very visible in the research literature. There... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
about the history of bioethanol producers. Our findings show that plants founded during the industrial policy program tend to be, in the long run, more productive than those founded before the program was in place. Based on additional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client demand and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
communications, even if that role proves slow to evolve. The ability of consumers to obtain information instantly about the products and services of greatest interest to them and to interact directly with marketers is of tremendous... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
institutions? The answer, the authors argue, is yes. The key lies in market-creating innovations: products and services that speak to unmet local needs, create local jobs, and scale up quickly. Examples include MicroEnsure, which has made... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
processes of production and distribution. This was a massive innovation over the older model of a single owner who tried to oversee everything. Under managerial capitalism, ownership became dispersed, but control remained concentrated in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
self-control) in one domain subsequently reduces one's capacity to regulate behavior in other domains. One reason is that people have limited self-regulatory resources, and self-regulatory failure occurs when these resources become... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
causing them to place a lower value on the product or service being offered. To address this problem, managers should experiment with operational transparency—the deliberate design of windows into and out of the organization's operations... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
trials. As a result, this could change the types of products that can be profitably brought to market. To better understand the landscape of precision medicines, we use a comprehensive database of over 130,000 global clinical trials over... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel