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You Can't Always Get What You Want: The Real Exchange Rate and Manufacturing Performance in a World of Global Value Chains

By: Laura Alfaro, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger and Yanping Liu
Real exchange rate devaluations are typically seen as a viable development strategy, but the effectiveness of the approach may vary over time and across countries. This column explores this issue by focusing on the microeconomics of firm-level responses to exchange... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing Performance; Real Exchange Rate; Global Value Chains; Economics; Production; Performance
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  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

How do once-thriving centers of innovation slow down, falter, and in some cases all but grind to a halt? That's a question that fascinates HBS professor Donald N. Sull. In a new working paper describing his in-depth research, Sull focused View Details
Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 16 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Advice on Advice

article in Harvard Business Review, The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice, which is based on research and discussions with advice experts. The advice give-and-take is not always easy to pull off. Both the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Nov 2018
  • HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

jimkruger In the mid-1990s, Target was a discount superstore behemoth. The retailer had set itself apart from chief rival Walmart with a focus on more upscale but wallet-friendly fashion and lifestyle lines, spurring double-digit growth... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
  • 10 Dec 2007
  • HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

as this concept, it is exceptionally easy to identify so many implementation problems that you simply give up. One key to new product development is to keep the ambition of the vision always front and centre... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer
  • 02 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

Entrepreneurs have to have a clear sense of the opportunity and how to build the business. But the best ones are willing to reexamine their assumptions and are willing to veer left or right or pivot all the way around when the data... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

G.I. Joe Phenomena: Understanding the Limits of Metacognitive Awareness on Debiasing

By: Ariella S. Kristal and Laurie R. Santos
Knowing about one’s biases does not always allow one to overcome those biases— a phenomenon referred to as the G. I. Joe fallacy. We explore why knowing about a bias doesn’t necessarily change biased behavior. We argue that seemingly disparate G. I. Joe... View Details
Keywords: Biases; Judgment; Decision-making; Nudge; Debiasing; Illusions; Prejudice and Bias; Decision Making; Behavior; Change
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A Framework for Research on Corporate Accountability Reporting

By: Karthik Ramanna
This paper provides an accounting-based conceptual framing of the phenomenon of corporate accountability reporting. Such reporting is seen as arising from a delegator's (e.g., a citizenry) demand to hold a delegate (e.g., shareholders) to account. When effective,... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Value; Financial Reporting; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

A Framework for Research on Corporate Accountability Reporting

By: Karthik Ramanna
This paper provides an accounting-based conceptual framing of the phenomenon of corporate accountability reporting. Such reporting is seen as arising from a delegator's (e.g., a citizenry) demand to hold a delegate (e.g., shareholders) to account. When effective,... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Corporate Reporting; For-Profit Firms; Framework; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Research; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues
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  • 10 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

these practices. If employers are able to tap into these drivers, and remain within the legal boundary, then they might be in a better position to allow their employees to blossom. Q: What are you working on now? A: I have View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • 02 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

flexibility of executive compensation is so enormous that it's always possible to find loopholes. It can even create distorting incentives that make the problem worse." In 1993, for example, Congress imposed a $1 million cap View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
  • 13 Jan 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Modularity on Intellectual Property and Value Appropriation

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Joachim Henkel
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

took root, DIS regained leadership in its market. "The process got things on the table quickly," Ludwig says. 3. Be Open And Inclusive Fundamental business innovations almost always require... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader
  • 10 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

that no category will be spared from the pressures of transacting on the Internet, including groceries. However, as new products and technologies come to market, there will always be categories that will... View Details
Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail
  • 22 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

insights and tools one can put into practice. Steven and I describe in detail how to build organizational capabilities, set up a good structure, implement the right processes, and adopt an effective management style. Achieving strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
  • December 2018
  • Article

Cross-boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular strategy for innovation. Knowledge diversity is seen to expand the range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, case studies reveal that teaming across knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Teams; Innovation; Groups and Teams; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge; Performance Effectiveness
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  • 16 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

Carrefour, German SAP, and British Virgin were all founded on ideas from budding entrepreneurs from this generation. Still, it is true that entrepreneurship is not always encouraged in the European Union.... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Cross-Boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular strategy for innovation. Knowledge diversity is seen to expand the range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, case studies of practice reveal that teaming... View Details
Keywords: Teams; Knowledge; Innovation; Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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  • 06 Nov 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

under fire. Among the reasons were lack of demand from existing customers (not always the best ones to ask) for disruptive technologies and the kiss of death for new ideas in large organizations; the fear... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 03 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

members—Deepak Malhotra, an authority on negotiation strategy; Noel Maurer, an expert on the politics and economics of the energy business; and Magnus Thor Torfason, an authority View Details
Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities

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