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  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

processes to consumers and beneficiaries to producers, generates a positive feedback loop through which value is created for both parties. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50173 forthcoming Stanford View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape

arose: Is venture capital conducive to fostering sustainability in India's agricultural landscape? While both companies have made remarkable strides in technology and solutions, the pressure for immediate financial returns inherent in VC... View Details
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

exists. Local conditions—for example, patient needs, regulatory constraints, human and technological resources—vary to such an extent that each organization, even when applying the same principles, will... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016

excellence with high-volume experts. Finally, we need better health information technology systems to facilitate knowledge transmission and communication. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51385 forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the profit-maximizing operating strategy of the firm. We also show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

business but also as a determinant of wealth and poverty, they will find a way back to becoming leading participants in the debates over the fundamental question of what makes an economy grow. 2. Innovation. Business historians have long explored the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with regulators to create codes of fair competition that reshaped both public and private regulatory power. Rather than viewing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges

are not running out of water – we are running out of cheap, plentiful, reliable and clean water.” Nicole puts the challenges into five buckets: (i) Scarcity and Variability, (ii) Quality and Pollution, (iii) Infrastructure and Needed Investment, (iv) Innovation, and... View Details
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

sufficient to fuel international expansion. The author presents advice on overcoming the paradox but warns it can be a lengthy process. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2010/12/why-you-arent-buying-venezuelan-chocolate/ar/1# Bringing Ethics into Focus: How View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

my vehicle' rather than 'the inspector accurately measured my vehicle's emissions,'" says Toffel, an associate professor and Marvin Bower Fellow in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at HBS. "This results in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

an important contemporary example of this underway. Japan is introducing third-generation cellular technology a year before the rest of the world because of rapid regulatory approval. That's going to give... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

but would likely have to restructure to accommodate the new regulatory environment. The case allows students to consider the assumptions that underlie media regulation and to debate the role of media in society. It can also be used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 9

potential approaches to establishing evidence of social influence in partially endogenous networks, and they may be especially persuasive in combination. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-136.pdf Technology Innovation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

technology is revolutionizing the global banking and payment industry. It offers new opportunities for banks to provide added convenience to their existing customers in developed countries and reach a large population of unbanked... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability. Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Jan 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

are the first to learn of changing customer needs, first to see competitors' marketing strategies in action, and first to encounter new regulatory initiatives. Top management increasingly relies on the ability of its geographically and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

engineers, for example, brought in anthropologists to help them design copiers that were more user-friendly. And Genzyme leavened the impact of the lawyers on its regulatory team with a sprinkling of scientists and liberal arts graduates.... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

between immigration and innovation. We construct a measure of foreign born expertise and show that technology areas where immigrant inventors were prevalent between 1880 and 1940 experienced more patenting and citations between 1940 and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

Beacon, a proposal to spin off most of GE Capital to GE shareholders, and Project Hubble, a proposal to sell off GE Capital in parts. A third document sketched out the implications should GE “stay the course” on its present strategy: a continued, massive build-up of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty