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Digital Transformation - HBS Online

$1,850 Certificate Winning with Digital Platforms Professor Feng Zhu Explore digital platforms' unique properties, opportunities, and risks, and develop scalable strategies that drive growth and deliver a competitive advantage. 5 weeks,... View Details
  • 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007

deployment of their technology abroad. The paper demonstrates that when firms want to exploit technologies abroad, multinational firm (MNC) activity and foreign direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing

sales data. Early product sales, appropriately adjusted for variations in price and availability, are an excellent predictor of overall sales (see the exhibit "No Need for a Crystal Ball"). In fact, retailers that exploit these... View Details
Keywords: by Marshall L. Fisher, Ananth Raman & Anna Sheen McClelland; Retail
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

of a purchase and final acquisition of a firearm. We show that waiting periods, which create a “cooling off” period among buyers, significantly reduce the incidence of gun violence. We estimate the impact of waiting periods on gun deaths, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

must be nurtured and the transition to high growth must be managed. Once breakthrough innovations catch hold, growth must be funded and managed to exploit the full value of the opportunity. And finally, incremental innovations must ensure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

devise a new way to do contact tracing, Weiss says, “I became very interested because I’ve been so focused on the question, ‘Can governments try new things?’” Bluetooth vs. GPS Technology When TraceTogether is downloaded and left running,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717445-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-446 AKB48: Going Global? (B) Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717446-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-062 ISRO:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jan 2008
  • News

Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

that a collaborative management style in the real world would be equally effective and essential.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS “There is no substitute for good, old-fashioned planning and analysis. You can’t rationalize excessive use of ‘gut feel’ and instincts.” CURRENT... View Details
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

practices, and bad actors can undermine even the most successful platforms. The book concludes with an exploration of platform battles of the future, including voice wars (Alexa vs. Hey Google View Details
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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

social media, two-sided platforms, robotics, and cybersecurity. Educational Objectives The course exists to address a gap in management scholarship between two fundamental stages of corporate development – exploration and View Details
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

  Working PapersWellsprings of Creation: How Perturbation Sustains Exploration in Mature Organizations (revised) Authors:David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman, and David M. Upton Abstract Organizations struggle to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

activists (e.g., social movement organizations vs. religious groups and activist investors) rely on dissimilar tactics (e.g., boycotts and protests vs. lawsuits and proxy votes). Further, we show how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2019
  • News

A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

time, some type of gun-purchase waiting-period law. To understand the causal effect of waiting periods, the team exploited the significant geographic and temporal variations in the implementation of waiting periods. The researchers tested... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

Wood, George Westerman, and Charles O'Reilly Abstract This paper empirically explores the relations between alternative organizational designs and a firm's ability to explore as well as exploit. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016

observers perceive employees who express distress as less competent than employees who do not. Across five experiments, we explore how reframing a socially inappropriate emotional expression (distress) by publicly attributing it to an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both standard and two-sample instrumental variable strategies, we show education increases financial market participation, measured by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

Moreover, it is unclear whether standard theories about organizational strategy, such as planning, hold true in such environments. We explore these issues using a sample of 730 new ventures in Colombia from 1997 to 2001. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2016
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First Look, May 3, 2016

take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about—innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Amy C. Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Student-Profile

Yueran Ma

finance and macroeconomics are made in the face of uncertainty and beliefs play a central role. In the past few years, I have studied how non-financial firms in the U.S. exploit capital market frictions and act as arbitrageurs across... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

The first of these, Machine/Platform/Crowd, explores the current and future impact of digital technology on people (the mind in relation to machine), product (in relation to digital platforms), and core (traditional organizations and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett