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- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
controlling the flow of the investment. For an example of what we mean, let's look at Teradyne, the maker of semiconductor test equipment. In 1997, the company was confronted with an important innovation: the application of CMOS chip... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
counterparts, Hamilton was an unlikely candidate for success on Broadway. The trio needed to decide which of two popular routes was best to bring their new musical to Broadway: either take the production straight to Broadway in a “cold... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
awareness. We use a network approach to demonstrate that the connections between two countries through joint-membership in the same IGOs are associated with a large positive influence on the foreign direct investment that flows between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert over the different segments of their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
The Dynamic Effects of Bundling as a Product Strategy By: Derdenger, Timothy, and Vineet Kumar Abstract—Several key questions in bundling have not been empirically examined: Is mixed bundling more effective than pure bundling or pure... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
forthcoming Handbook of International Trade and Transportation Transportation Cost and the Geography of Foreign Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen Abstract—Falling transportation costs and rapid technological progress in recent decades have precipitated an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
resources furnished by its partners. Receptivity in turn portrays how organizational capabilities and the quality of ties to partners facilitate flows of network resources. We propose that the interplay of these three mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
domestic product will once again surpass that of the U.S. by the year 2020, two hundred years after Chinese GDP was nearly one-third of the world's total. Those optimistic about China's economic future have poured the equivalent of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
along with a camera and other features. By September 2007, just 74 days after the June launch of the iPhone, Apple and its mobile carrier partner AT&T Mobility had sold one million units. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
institutions? The answer, the authors argue, is yes. The key lies in market-creating innovations: products and services that speak to unmet local needs, create local jobs, and scale up quickly. Examples include MicroEnsure, which has made... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
and autocratic, generating a heavy flow from the top downward. Your research on Thyssen contradicts this notion. In general, what did you discover about German management that is in opposition to what we thought we knew? A: This... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
indicators but also focus on current cash flow and performance of the small businesses using a broad array of traditional and nontraditional data sources. The new lenders generally fall into three categories. The first wave of tech-based... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
of tomorrow's innovative new products, arguing that companies must reinvest in new product and process development in the U.S. industrial sector. Only by reviving this "industrial commons" can the world's largest economy build... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
lead to reduced economic productivity subsequent to exposure to temptation. Using a design inspired by the classic "Marshmallow Test," we report data from a field experiment in which children between the ages of 6 and 13 were... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
has good information about cost and demand functions, product quality, and optimal output mix. Profit centers—defined as business units whose managers have responsibility for overall profits but not the authority to make major capital... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
stocks held by these funds have lower volatility, and flows out of these funds have smaller spillover effects on other funds holding the same securities. Our results provide evidence of meaningful fire sale externalities in the mutual... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
as popular celebrities like Ozzy Osbourne and writers like Ben Mezrich—are getting into the NFT market. And with Coinbase opening its own NFT marketplace this year, these products will become significantly more accessible to consumers. We... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
There are many, but here are examples of each. Settings: Air flow and other engineering steps. Before you think of moving back into your office building or shop, you should check on basic metrics that any building manager should easily be... View Details
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
take advantage of factor cost differences. Instead, multinationals tend to own the stages of production proximate to their final production, giving rise to a class of high-skill, intra-industry vertical FDI. Measuring and Managing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
winners or losers, it is most productive to look at the investment opportunity as an interconnected combination of four elements: people, context, business opportunity, and deal. The right combination, which is often manageable, means a... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson