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- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
hosted the event. Are Wireless "hot Spots" Potentially Hot Markets? Hot spots are pockets of wireless access points that increasingly populate airports, coffee shops, corporate campuses, public transportation, and even homes.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
Despite all this, the online draft will certainly not be the same. Apart from the lost entertainment value—NFL draft fashion has become a much-watched spectacle in recent years—there are concerns about potential technical challenges. The... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
technologies compete in production and innovation, in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the potential transition to clean technology can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
1839 and 1939. We find large effects of the prizes on competitive entry and the quality of contemporaneous patents, especially when prize categories were set by a strict rotation scheme, thereby mitigating the potentially confounding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
faculty colloquium in May intended to frame the issues for potential curriculum changes at HBS. (To ensure open discussion, comments made during the two colloquia were not for attribution.) For their research project, Datar and Garvin... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
the team’s poor play, was that McCarthy had not followed the rest of the league in using modern, imaginative offensive plays to sow confusion and gain advantages over opposing defenses. Highly effective managers also have the ability to adjust strategy based on team... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
with a comprehensive approach to assessing the current health care market. Students can build from this framework with their own assessments of potential opportunities for business or policy innovation within the market. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
even a potential mate. “When you’re observing another person’s choice, the choice itself becomes very diagnostic,” says Barasz, who graduated in May and will soon join the faculty of the IESE Business School in Barcelona. “It becomes the... View Details
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
station—to answer survey questions about potential clients entering a luxury boutique, some dressed down in gym clothes and a Swatch watch and others wearing elegant dresses, fur coats, and Rolex watches. Shop assistants well aware that... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
you want to do next? We could do anything next!" The possibilities seemed limitless for wireless entertainment and information systems, and the potential pitfalls were unforeseen. Had Huber decided to offer hundreds of fun... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
woman." The authors recommend that WLPs use a "shadow negotiation" framework that focuses on strategic "moves and turns" to give women tools to negotiate over potentially controversial issues and decisions. “We... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
could use to evaluate and track their own company's ethical performance. And this is when the project got really complicated. For starters, there was the issue of buy-in. The researchers discovered that some companies balked at the idea of employees View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
common operating platform across three separate institutions, BancoSol of Bolivia, Mibanco of Peru, and Banco Solidario of Ecuador. The Banca Regional is a response to forces that the banks perceive as potentially threatening to their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
regulation would actually increase innovation since it would tend to increase transparency in this field, and provide potential researchers with the data they need. Regulation could also increase access to reproductive services, which... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
relegated to specialists within corporations, given the risks that it entails. Q: If both shareholders and tax authorities are potentially worse off from all this activity, what should be done about this more generally? A: While firms are... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
the idea originated: It can participate as an investor, as a customer, as a supplier, or simply as an interested bystander. If and when some real value has been created, then the company can potentially step in by licensing the technology... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
raised potential challenges to the dominance of leading firms. Our research tells a fascinating story of an industry that has proved remarkably resilient in resolving economic and regulatory challenges. It provides practitioners and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
distribute periodic sizeable payments to some investors using a lottery-like drawing where an investor's chances of winning are proportional to one's account balances. This paper describes these products, provides examples of their use, argues for their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that incumbent firms have the potential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
possibly in potential danger." Hopeful news notwithstanding, this all remains true and will for some time. Kindness—to yourself and those around you—is essential. Stop and breathe. Light a candle, if you have one. If you are reading this,... View Details