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  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

ways of thinking. It comes down to this: How do you rewrite all the implicit, explicit, and inefficient contracts and relationships that comprise the U.S. industry? To complete the move from such a protected market into a wide-open,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

However, those lofty hopes were quickly dashed when Afrezza generated lackluster first-year sales, driving Sanofi to terminate its short-lived contract with MannKind in January 2016. MannKind's management attributed the launch’s failure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

Lynda, Daniel Nylen, Jonny Holmstrom, and Kalle LyytinenHarvard Business School Case 813-073 The case follows leading Scandinavian media company Bonnier as it establishes a designated R&D division for the first time. The case, in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

In their contracts with Walmart, suppliers must agree to accept any financial or criminal liability resulting from the sale of their products. Elmburg felt that Walmart, given its size and as the point of purchase, had an ability to... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail
  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

experimentation ex-post and one that funds experimental projects ex-ante. In equilibrium it is possible that all competing financiers choose to offer failure-tolerant contracts to attract entrepreneurs, leaving no capital to fund the most... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

proposal involved changing a basic design feature of LinkedIn by allowing members to contact each other without intermediaries for a fee. Fewer members would avail themselves of this feature, but those who did would be willing to pay as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

while studying the manufacturing floor at a leading, technologically advanced global contract manufacturer's plant in Southern China, where tens of thousands of workers assembled mobile devices under close supervision. The plant for years... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • Web

Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

gas-powered automobile built in the U.S. 1894 Boycott of Pullman sleeping cars leads to general strike on railroads Pullman Porters 1900 U.S. Industrial Commission declares trade unions good for democracy 1902 Willis H. Carrier designs... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

dollars in tuition revenue for fiscal 2021. Second, the pandemic forced Executive Education to pivot from its entirely in-person learning model to an all-virtual portfolio. Designing and implementing such a portfolio from the ground up... View Details
  • 07 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

believe that these extraordinary times call for massive public funds to be used for economic interventions, shouldn't these efforts be at least partially designed to promote new enterprises? Second, in many nations the venture industry is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 28 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

institutional entrepreneurship. Finally, the paper highlights future directions for research on this topic. Researchers are encouraged to use this paper to build sophisticated, targeted research designs that will add value to the growing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

church history, need updating to be more creditable. The Hilco Story: Discovering a Diamond in Our Own Backyard by Art Hilsinger (MBA 1952) Independently published Hilsinger offers a candid, clear-eyed look at the process of building a successful business. The business... View Details
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

(EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the present value of future cash... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

psychology of decision making, rather than voters' willingness to compromise and support a bill they weakly oppose when that bill is bundled with one they strongly support. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-147.pdf   PublicationsA 'Novel' Approach... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

but can't afford the hefty prices for designer originals? Rent the Runway allows fashionistas to use those dresses and accessories at affordable rates. The company has decoupled the value part of the process—experiencing haute... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

company as an undervalued stock. CEOs and CFOs put themselves in a bind by providing earnings guidance and then making decisions designed to meet Wall Street's expectations for quarterly earnings. When earnings appear to be coming in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

streamline production processes, lower costs, produce better quality products, gain a first-mover advantage, and enhance their global competitiveness. Properly designed government regulation, Porter believes, can provide incentives for... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb
  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

distribution services (GDSs)—such as SABRE—to reach travel agents. But GDSs held significant tactical advantages. For example, GDSs had signed long-term exclusive contracts with the corporate customers who were American's best customers.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

design decisions, asking themselves the following questions: 1) Are we providing too much information? In many cases, the simplest, most effective change a platform can make is to withhold information such as race and gender until after a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

promising technology—and its first designs didn't work. She and her management colleagues were unknowns, and the product failures subtracted from their slight credibility. And at the time, she said, "the capital markets were totally... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg