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  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

But they are riskier than the stock market, so cryptocurrency markets are dominated by speculators or traders. Another constituent is the long-term investors, who take a long-horizon macro view on these assets being a less-dumb form of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

today, I don't know how the hell they would get this idea started. The other point is that the health care system policy thinking is dominated by the idea of economies of scale. But there are diseconomies of scale. You get too big and you... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

integrated innovation? Our model has firms with limited visibility that either control all aspects of product innovation (integrated innovation) or open their designs to components developed by other players (open innovation). We show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

the effective allocation of work.   Cases & Course MaterialsSotheby's & Christie's Inc. Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and C.J. WiseHarvard Business School Case 710-412 The fine art auction business has remained a duopoly over its 250 year history. The industry is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

key transitions that shape leaders' careers, specifying processes and moderating conditions for identity transformation. Implications for designing experiences and training that take identity processes into account are drawn. Purchase the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

paper integrates the role of entrepreneurship and firms into debates on why Asia, Latin America, and Africa were slow to catch up with the West following the Industrial Revolution and the advent of modern economic growth. It argues that the currently View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

Anthony Tan and COO Hooi Ling Tan (no relation to one another) expanded their Grab car-hailing app to Jakarta in June 2014. Later that year, Uber launched its car service in the city. Grab had started as MyTeksi in Malaysia in 2012, View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

different stakeholders base their trust. As a result, dominant conceptualizations of organizational trust are overly generalized. Building on existing research on organizational trust and stakeholder theory, we introduce a more nuanced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Mar 2016
  • News

The New Space Race

engineers to work on exciting projects like designing rockets for satellite delivery. Besides, he held the “naive view that starting a space company might be fun and profitable.” Founded with two HBS classmates, Bruce Ferguson (MBA 1979,... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • 12 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 12, 2016

Expenditure Panel Survey and joint probabilities of workplace exposures from the General Social Survey, and we conducted a meta-analysis of the epidemiological literature to estimate the relative risks of poor health outcomes associated with exposure to these... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

could fit in two 40-foot intermodal shipping containers. The UPower reactor was designed to serve the need for "off-grid" electric power. These off-grid customers were in remote locations such as mining operations, military... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

option leads to a fourteen-fold increase in the ex-post licensing rate. Two additional experimental interventions are designed to reduce search costs for (i) price and (ii) product information. Both intervention—immediate price comparison... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

of 1,286 software releases from 17 applications and find that 70% to 80% of these systems possess a core-periphery architecture under our classification scheme. This type of architecture is characterized by having a single dominant cyclic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

hundred customers with more casual relationships with an organization. A series of case studies is presented to illustrate ways in which organizations measure, create, sustain, and build ownership behaviors among customers and employees. This work is an extension of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace