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- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
enables individuals—a teen manipulating the stock market—to overthrow established players. The old rules no longer apply. You argue that during these periods of change the old rules may not apply for a period of time, but in the end the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
scenarios and with expert opinions on emerging risk issues. In order to explain the dynamics of these alternative plots, I show that risk experts engage in various kinds of boundary-work (Gieryn, 1983, 1999), sometimes to expand and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
between modularity and evolution has had limited success. Three major challenges persist: first, it is difficult to measure modularity in a robust and repeatable fashion; second, modularity is a property of individual components, not View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
Concepts What Is a Platform? Value Creation and Capture Growth Factors Featured Exercise Articulate dynamic pricing’s benefits and drawbacks Define the most important characteristics of economies of scale Determine how platforms build... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
previous work that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc.). Our objective is to study the joint determination of these three features (beliefs, punitiveness and economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
arrived at this point in part due to the recession when many retailers reduced headcounts as customers focused more on price and less on service, but also as a result of long-term initiatives like self checkout, which eliminated many cashier positions; inventory,... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
control and the growth of professional management seen in the United States. That debate continues. But this book does report compelling research that shows that, historically, family ownership and management in many countries has been a View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
dynamic groups, don't learn naturally. I outline the factors that prevent them from doing so, such as interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding. With Teaming,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
use of AI in everything from facial recognition to predictive sentencing. She found it nonetheless. The online rental platform uses its pricing tool to increase host revenues by dynamically adjusting rental prices according to demand.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
trading has been beneficial. Derivatives serve as a form of sophisticated "adapters," he said, linking economic systems together and helping to bring about a unified world economy. They have also brought about vast reductions in costs by... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
forthcoming European Competition Journal Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Damien Geradin Abstract—Since its launch in 2007, Android has become the dominant mobile device operating View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
nonpartisan guide that will open your eyes to the true dynamics and profound challenges of the American political system and provide real solutions for reshaping the system for... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
explore the use of more distributed institutional forms. In this article, we review the emerging scholarship on the formation and function of self-regulatory institutions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-089.pdf Evolution Analysis of Large-Scale... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. The U.S. healthcare View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
hope that we do recognize how important they are. The system is still working. And it's thanks to the working class.” “Who's actually putting those groceries on the shelves still and who's driving the truck to get that food that gets put... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
joining HBS. Cal Brooks (MBA 2022, Section A), Summer Internship: Commercialization Strategy Intern at Malta Malta is building a new type of electro-thermal energy storage system that can collect and store energy from any source (i.e.... View Details
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Demo Day | New Venture Competition
Systems Lisa Yan (MBA 2025), Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025) Argus Systems accelerates AI model development for physical AI. Atlas Reese Dorrepaal (MBA 2025), Meredith Rintoul (MBA 2025) Atlas is an AI-powered... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
attentive to how the different generations in your firm are motivated. Develop dynamic reward systems that respond to the changing needs of your workforce. But spend most of your time fostering values that... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
make sense of family-business dynamics. The School has made further strides in the past six years with courses, cases, and conferences designed to explore the frustrating yet fascinating dynamics that make family businesses among the most... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
Black students in our community have spent the last few weeks grappling with the weight of a devastating truth: that our country and society has undeniably and systemically failed Black communities – and the false narrative that being... View Details