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  • 06 Jul 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

of backlash fostered by a long period of neglect of globalization’s effect on labor markets worldwide. Globalization takes many forms: common markets; free flows of workers including refugees and migrants; and multinational organizations... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 13 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

large corporations, such as Apple and Google, are careful to retain their underdog roots in their brand biographies." A forthcoming article coauthored by Keinan for the Journal of Consumer Research, "The Underdog Effect: The View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

and pharmaceuticals. However, in non-R&D-intensive sectors, such as mobile apps and software, the ability to predict success was no better than random. Perhaps that is because it is easier to evaluate technology that has a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services
  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

Tequila Mobile SA, a mobile gamers developer, publisher, and service provider, had to make some important strategic decisions. Tequila Mobile SA had already decided to shift to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

ads. But when this practice feels invasive to people, it can prompt a strong backlash. Marketers today need to understand where to the draw the line. The good news is that psychologists already know a lot about what triggers privacy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

  Publications August 2013 Modernizing Insurance Regulation Comparative Regulation of Market Intermediaries: Insights from the Indian Life Insurance Market By: Anagol, Santosh, Shawn A. Cole, and Shayak... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2004 (Revised March 2005)
  • Case

Instant Messaging

By: David B. Yoffie and Deborah Freier
Explores the usage and technology of instant messaging (IM). IM enables two or more users to communicate almost instantaneously over the Internet with short, private text messages. Most IM service providers chose to remain proprietary and, therefore, a user of most IM... View Details
Keywords: Network Effects; Standards; Communication Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Web Services Industry
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  • 21 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

effective way to mobilize nonvoters and persuade those who are undecided.” Getting the ground game right Candidates who accept the limited benefits of TV and shift resources to in-person outreach—whether by the candidate, a proxy, or a... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe

By: Christian Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv
This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to government policies and actions of individual companies in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path–related... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Industry Clusters; Globalization; Economic Growth; Europe
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  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

Flows in the Global Economy Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows By: Horton, John, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—We review the rapid development of digital labor markets that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

Specifically, we explore whether the presence of frictions in a country's capital markets, labor markets, and product markets affect the excess value of diversified firms. We find that the value of diversified firms relative to their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

History at HBS, have been compiling an oral history project called Creating Emerging Markets, 130 video interviews of iconic business leaders from emerging markets discussing their careers and organizations in an unstructured format.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 24 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

effects of v4 scarcity, while obtaining price discovery and allocative efficiency benefits of market transactions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-091.pdf Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

  Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2021
  • Case

Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (A)

By: Henry McGee, Nien-hê Hsieh, Sarah McAra and Christian Godwin
In 2015, Apple CEO Tim Cook debuted the iPhone 6S with enhanced security measures that enflamed a debate on privacy and public safety around the world. The iPhone 6S, amid a heightened concern for privacy following the 2013 revelation of clandestine U.S. surveillance... View Details
Keywords: Iphone; Encryption; Data Privacy; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Globalized Firms and Management; Government and Politics; National Security; Law; Law Enforcement; Leadership; Markets; Safety; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Civil Society or Community; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Electronics Industry; United States; China; Hong Kong
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  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

mobilized to accomplish. Reassess available resources. The relaunch is a time to reexamine information, budgetary resources, and networks that will help the team advance its goals. Understand members’ constraints. A relaunch is an ideal... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

threat—it can also reveal significant underlying heterogeneity in the old technology's broader demand environment. This heterogeneity is a source of opportunities that can support a new position for the old technology, in either the current View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2021
  • Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

and learning." We found that the education-and-employment connection remains too tenuous in America. To create more pathways to upward mobility in the post-COVID recovery, policymakers, employers, and educators must prioritize and scale... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
  • 08 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

organization off its complacent platform and into a good direction. But it didn't happen. Instead of mobilizing people into action, the crisis led many managers into making fewer decisions because they didn't want to be accused of... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter

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