Information Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

trolling up front and weed out patent trolling lawsuits early in the process,” Cohen said. “(A review board) would screen out good NPEs from bad NPEs.” For more information on patent trolling, watch Cohen’s video, “Patent Trolls: Evidence... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

03 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

was a source of stress for the system's stability. Today, banks are better capitalized, rely less on short-term wholesale funding, and make available much more detailed information about their portfolios, while the amount of "shadow... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

viable choices for search advertising.” Serious harms occur to others if Yahoo's ad platform disintegrates. Consumers benefit from diversity in ad platforms so that no single platform can unduly restrict the information available to... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

excitement generated by the public source case made Koehn's team even more committed to filling in the gaps with personal feedback from Harpo management and, ideally, from Winfrey herself. Finally, events began to move very fast. The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design and manage them, rather than anything inherent in their scale. In fact, Creative Construction argues, if used properly, scale can be an asset, rather than... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

executives, middle managers, and sales people from companies across a variety of industries. The survey focused on questions about how well their companies’ strategies informed six critical elements of their sales approaches. The results... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

principles can be valuable to a welfarist facing this limitation if they act as informational proxies, carrying accumulated knowledge about the effects of policy that otherwise cannot be considered. This argument can be seen both as... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

of society can be better met without these taxes, and though research continues to consider reasons why it may be justified, capital income taxation is generally viewed as inefficient. One concern probably less familiar to nonspecialists is that our tax system fails to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

considerations. Important impediments to the use of ESG information are the lack of reporting standards and as a result, lack of comparability, reliability, quantifiability, and timeliness. Among the different ESG investment styles,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we documented all the women in the... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

each of these indices of safety and performance, they were exemplars of the company's efforts to create a new kind of offshore operating environment. Our discussions with senior managers led us to believe that organizational features of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

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