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- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
Summing Up Do increases in social sector productivity, which seem to prevail at least in the U.S., benefit consumers at the expense of workers? Or is the scale weighted in favor of the latter who may benefit two ways, in terms of both an income View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
preceding decades. Similarly, the assumption that tires was a growth industry was enacted through the capital budgeting process that resulted in a steady stream of new factories being built to meet rising demand. When faced with the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
continual streams of requests for personal information and by the equally unavoidable barrage of personal information about others. Read the paper: http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/papers/acquisti_herding-out.pdf Global Capitalism at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
controlling for investment size, stage, and industry. Geographic distance and technological inexperience by the VC increase the probability the investment is taken up by a partner and not the VC. This work contributes to an emerging View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
production, foreign investment, and trade of both final and intermediate goods by multinational corporations. Research has sought to understand how foreign direct investment (FDI) affects host economies. This paper reviews the main theories and empirical evidence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
Institutional memories are short. But internal business pressures also play a part as executives balance the need to protect current revenue streams with the imperative to get behind new concepts crucial to future success. And too often... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
Robert Austin, Richard Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell Jim Barton barely reacted when the doorbell rang. Immersed in content streaming to a tablet propped up behind his cereal bowl, he waved an empty spoon past one ear, as if pushing away a... View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints for would-be entrepreneurs is also an important goal for policymakers worldwide. We review two major streams of research... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Scientist 52, no. 6 (2009): 885-904 Abstract This article provides a critical reflection on the heavily normative nature of current accountability debates. In particular, it explores three streams of normative discourse on nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
vexing challenges—most stemming from the tensions between protecting existing revenue streams critical to current success and supporting new concepts that may be crucial to future success. In this article, Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
core activities in any business. Without a good customer acquisition process, you can’t grow.” A professor at Harvard Business School for 11 years, Cespedes left for an equal time to run a firm, where he learned firsthand the importance of generating a steady View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
Digital expansion could include everything from improving the center's website to streaming live performances to movie theaters around the country. Another option is to work more closely with content distributors like iTunes or Hulu to... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
industrial ecology literature that highlights the environmental benefits of by-product synergy. By-product synergy is defined as the conversion of a firm's waste stream from a manufacturing process into valuable feedstock for another... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
steady stream of orders. Like so many entrepreneurs, Dal LaMagna pursued his new idea with a vengeance, but insisted on doing it all himself. Working out of a small family bungalow in Long Island, he made deals with suppliers, figured out... 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
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
acquisitions and the price paid per employee are once again fueling headlines. (A better yardstick might be price per user, which in the case of WhatsApp was about $40 for a service with no advertising and a revenue stream of $1 per year... View Details
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
the landscape. Q: Another hot topic in the nonprofit world is the idea of creating a for-profit business to help underwrite the cost of operations. Is this the way to go to secure a reliable stream of funds? A: I don't think so. There's a... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
to prevent them. "The main conclusion from this whole stream of research is that investing in poverty reduction strategies not only has direct economic benefits but also political benefits," says Lakshmi Iyer, a Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, case studies of practice reveal that teaming across knowledge boundaries can be difficult, and innovation is not always realized. Two streams of research are particularly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
global poverty; their target is to donate 10% of their profits, but as a new capital-intensive business they give 2% of their revenue. Their income streams are mainly direct-to-consumer sales along with corporate sales and a special... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel