Capacity Constraints - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

negotiations can affect interaction processes and how negotiations can be not only a solution to, but also a source of, inter-organizational conflict. Principals, agents, and teams face different sets of constraints and opportunities in... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

among the most financially vulnerable households. We find that even at actuarially fair premiums, households’ willingness to pay is below expected losses, and demand remains elastic—results that are inconsistent with the textbook models of insurance demand. Financial... View Details

22 Jun 2022
Book

Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

indeed important to understand our passions and find work that fulfills them, but we all live our lives within the gravitational field of necessity. The root question for the Necessity element is: “What are the nonnegotiable obligations and View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 May 2021
Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

and delivery only and the prospects for returning to full employment by June 30 were dim given the constraints imposed by capacity caps. "I have no idea what to do with the PPP loan that I’ve been... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

01 Feb 1999
News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

layoffs and lost revenues, for example - weak companies are artificially supported," he explains. "Other firms won't or can't restructure themselves or exit unprofitable businesses because they are too set in their ways, lack sound governance systems, or are hindered... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

central part of their mission, asserting that they educate and develop leaders for society. And yet, if we look at the leading research universities and at the business schools within them, the topic of leadership is actually given fairly short shrift. The gap—between... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

identity and reputation from unjust attacks. And the firm as a whole needs a similar defensive capacity for its dealings with hostile competitive firms, community groups, or governmental agencies. The defending and learning drives can... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

implicated in recent acts of corporate malfeasance—could have become so depraved, this is probably the wrong question. Given that human nature does not change much from age to age, the real issue is the effectiveness of the constraints... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

try to understand it. When you thoroughly examine the assumptions behind their current use, you will likely make surprising discoveries with a capacity for large changes. When you get to the root cause, you are not only solving this... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

will operate, recognizing that’s decades not quarters. This requires considering our current and future customers, communities, employees, and shareholders—not just the people we are working with today. The externalities of business-as-usual are a View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Leaders everywhere are making decisions about how their organizations should and shouldn't use generative AI tools; first, they must know how they could and couldn't. "Storrowed" is an HBS-built exercise for increasing capacity with AI... View Details

15 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 15, 2006

Products: The Effect of Absorptive Capacity Authors:Daniel Snow Abstract In this paper, I propose and examine a specific means by which firms' R&D experience may be helping firms to improve their current-technology products: Firms... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jun 2008
News

Whistle While You Work

court press,” “Slam dunk,” “Going for the gold, “Hit a home run” your favorite here). It’s a cooptation with a curious side. To me, music and sports convey transcendence: the mind and body at play, freed from the constraints and demands... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy

the United States in 1999 versus $7 billion in 1997, according to the National Venture Capital Association—has attracted thousands of business plans. This sheer volume of funds to be invested and plans to be evaluated has strained the View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Henry W. Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria & Donald N. Sull

22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22

adequately support many online publishing businesses, and riddled with complex relationships that hinder accountability. Download the paper: http://www.sigecom.org/exchanges/volume_9/1/EDELMAN.pdf Constraints and Entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

before key decisions are made; The capacity constraints of citizens and CSOs should be identified, so that efforts can be made to improve capacities and accessibility at all... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

12 Mar 2019
Blog Post

What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program

non-western participants are committing significant resources to winning in those markets. The gulf between sophisticated African consumer preferences for products and services and resource and capacity View Details

01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

(Study 2). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49533 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints? By: Farre-Mensa, Joan, and Alexander Ljungqvist... View Details