New Economic Model - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

its intake of meat. Nor can universities be made by legislative fiat to perform functions for which they are not expressly designed. For example, requiring universities to admit underprepared students is unlikely to produce a proportional number of View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

26 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 26, 2008

very high accuracy. This case describes a growing company struggling with unique challenges as it implements a "social enterprise" business model; it describes the difficulties faced by social entrepreneurs implementing for-profit business View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

"Michael Porter didn't get to be a giant in the field of competition and strategy by hunting small game." Joan Magretta begins her new book on Harvard Business School's Michael Porter's work by noting that, from the start of his... View Details

Keywords: by Joan Magretta

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

1993 are an average of reported data for the following: Czech Republic, Slovakia. Download Data Set in Excel Mail Handled B.R. Mitchell, International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-2005. New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2007 B.R.... View Details

31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

increased when the rules were introduced. We conclude that managerial fiduciary duties affect equity-bondholder conflicts in a way that is economically important, has impact on ex ante capital structure choices, and affects welfare. Read... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

September 2011
Article

Global Capitalism at Risk: What Are You Doing About It?

By: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard and Lynn S. Paine

Market capitalism, a system that has proven to be a remarkable engine of wealth creation, is poised for a breakdown. That sounds dire, and it is. Increasing income inequality, migration, weaknesses in the global financial system, environmental degradation, and... View Details

Keywords: Disruption; Economic Systems; Globalization; Corporate Governance; Markets; Risk and Uncertainty

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14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

industries, including: a novel enzymatic RNA synthesis platform, an immune system-driven dendritic cell therapy to combat cancer, new molecular technologies for the delivery of transdermal formulations, a lipid-targeting drug to treat... View Details

06 May 2021
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How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

creating an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem can be seen through the stories of four women—two of them Black, one Latinx, and one white—who launched new enterprises in Miami with an eye to diversifying tech jobs in the future.... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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The Essential Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Thinkers50 every year since 2001 Frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and numerous other national publications and academic journals Lifetime Achievement Award in Economic Development from the U.S. Department of Commerce 22... View Details

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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

its retail stores. In 2015, the U.S. health care system continued to evolve. Health systems were expanding and consolidating, new health care delivery models were emerging, reimbursement was changing, while... View Details

12 Oct 1999
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Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

Navigator 1.0 part of a whole package of Internet tools, it sidestepped the competition by offering its product as a stand-alone browser. By also distributing Navigator over the Web and using a new pricing View Details

Keywords: by Daniel Penrice

17 Oct 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure

Keywords: by Nuno Gil & Carliss Y. Baldwin

11 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

19 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?

This kind of serendipity can turn out to be a vastly more valuable consequence of search diversion than stumbling upon new products at the supermarket or while browsing aimlessly through Amazon.com. View Details

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien

26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

campaign" in which a number of individual deals must be put together, often on multiple "fronts," to realize a larger result, typically an ultimate target agreement with sufficient support to make it sustainable. When the unit of analysis shifts from the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk Management

By: Robert C. Merton

Against the backdrop of financial crisis, a distinguished group of academics and practitioners discusses the contribution of financial management and innovation to corporate growth and value, along with the pitfalls and unintended consequences of such innovation.... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Market Participation; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Value; Distribution; Capital Structure; Risk Management; Business Ventures; Business Model; Strategy

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29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

Ramanna, who holds appointments as the Henry B. Arthur Fellow, supporting the research and teaching of business ethics, and as a Marvin Bower Fellow, helping faculty launch innovative new business agendas. "Capitalism delivers on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

restaurants, causing consumers to avoid those with bad ratings. Restaurants, in turn, often respond by cleaning up their act, according to an analysis of Yelp reviews, OpenTable reservations, and data from the New York City Department of... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

great gifts, the biggest of which is creating leaders of tomorrow who will move us into entirely new ways of community building. Building a community online - the VCPE conference was online this year #2 Impostor syndrome is real, but your... View Details

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