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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
What does cyberspace mean for physical retail space? Has online shopping changed the fundamentals of retailing? How should managers evaluate new in-store technologies? Harvard Business Review posed these... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
firms, we find that when institutional efficiency is low, family ownership and management increase value; however, family control in excess of ownership reduces value. When... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- January 2011
- Article
Does Intellectual Property Rights Reform Spur Industrial Development?
By: Lee G. Branstetter, Ray Fisman, C. Fritz Foley and Kamal Saggi
An extensive theoretical literature generates ambiguous predictions concerning the effects of intellectual property rights (IPR) reform on industrial development. The impact depends on whether multinational enterprises (MNEs) expand production in reforming countries... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Intellectual Property; Rights; Production; Expansion; United States
Branstetter, Lee G., Ray Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi. "Does Intellectual Property Rights Reform Spur Industrial Development?" Journal of International Economics 83, no. 1 (January 2011): 27–36.
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
single-payer system. Few national politicians are working to uncover why the public exchanges aren’t working for either insurers or consumers. While it’s difficult, the question everyone should be working to answer is: How can the system... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Finishing Touches
On a steamy day last July, workers replacing books in the restored Stamps Reading Room of Baker Library experienced an unfamiliar sensation: air-conditioning. Climate control is just one improvement to come... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
Academy of Management Journal Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-clearing Across Difficult Terrain By: Fisher, Colin M., Julianna Pillemer, and Teresa M. Amabile Abstract—How do teams... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2008
- News
Stylin’ at Gallatin
(double-glazed, insulated) windows wired into the heating and cooling system that detect when windows are open and adjust the room’s temperature accordingly. “It’s not in-your-face green,” says Terri Evans, communications View Details
- June 2009
- Article
Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation
By: Lucy White and Alan Morrison
We analyze the desirability of level playing fields in international financial regulation. In general, level playing fields impose the standards of the weakest regulator upon the best-regulated economies. However, they may be desirable when capital is mobile because... View Details
Keywords: Economy; International Finance; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Standards; Banking Industry
White, Lucy, and Alan Morrison. "Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation." Journal of Finance 64, no. 3 (June 2009): 1099–1142.
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
The social sector is big business. In the United States alone some 1.5 million nonprofits and other social ventures have combined revenues of $700 billion and control assets valued at $2 trillion—a seemingly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report
Despite a sluggish economy that constrained revenue growth for a second year, HBS finished fiscal year 2003 last June with a balanced budget and double-digit growth in its endowment funds. “Through careful management View Details
- 2021
- Book
Global Goliaths: Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century Economy
By: C. Fritz Foley, James R. Hines Jr. and David Wessel
Globalization and multinational corporations have long seemed partners in the enterprise of economic growth: globalization-led prosperity was the goal, and giant corporations spanning the globe would help achieve it. In recent years, however, the notion that all... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Globalization; Economy; Economic Growth; Equality and Inequality; Employment; Policy
Foley, C. Fritz, James R. Hines Jr., and David Wessel, eds. Global Goliaths: Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century Economy. Brookings Institution Press, 2021.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Collaborative Architectures for Innovation
By: Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti
Collaborative innovation has become a hot topic in innovation today. Scholars, consultants, and the business press all urge companies seeking to boost innovative performance to become more "collaborative." Too often, however, companies fail to distinguish among the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
rights to commercialize their ideas in exchange for disclosing the details of their inventions in the patent document itself. The system is designed to make information about cutting-edge technology... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 2012
- Article
Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank
By: B. Staats and F. Gino
Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition... View Details
Keywords: Motivation; Productivity; Specialization; Variety; Work Fragmentation; Boundaries; Performance Productivity; Organizations; Research; Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Opportunities; Market Transactions; Resource Allocation; Performance; Goals and Objectives; Learning
Staats, B., and F. Gino. "Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank." Management Science 58, no. 6 (June 2012): 1141–1159.
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
clients' campaigns. This practice was institutionalized by an arrangement known as the "recognition system" between agencies and publishers, and administered by a set of trade associations. Among other things, the View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and... View Details
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
levels of management was a theme running through several comments. As Dennis Nelson put it, "When an organization knows on what investments its existence depends, and the various returns on its... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- November 2010
- Case
Children's Hospital Boston (A)
By: Scott A. Snook and Jeffrey C. Connor
Five year old Matty died at Children's Hospital Boston as a result of elective neurosurgery to "cure" his epilepsy. The organizational system, not the surgery, had failed. During post-operative recovery, he experienced a prolonged seizure that resulted in his death.... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Organizational Structure; Management Systems; Management Teams; Health Industry
Snook, Scott A., and Jeffrey C. Connor. "Children's Hospital Boston (A)." Harvard Business School Case 411-041, November 2010.
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
a project to a small group of people who are amateurs, who do the project part-time and act as a committee. It doesn't demand management time and resources, and you haven't brought in new skills. This holds... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
rating systems have emerged to reward good service and integrity. Plan Several Moves Ahead Bob Kraft owns the New England Patriots, one of the most successful franchises in professional sports. Notably, he... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler