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  • 19 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Radical Design, Radical Results

vision," Verganti says. "Steve Jobs has said that the market doesn't always know what it wants. Companies that do radical innovation do not listen to users; they eventually value View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products
  • March 2008
  • Article

Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism

We describe an auction mechanism in the class of Groves mechanisms that has received attention in the computer science literature because of its theoretical property of being more "learnable" than the standard second price auction mechanism. We bring this mechanism,... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Auctions; Learning; Economics
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  • 12 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

for the US space agency’s Astrobee system in 2018. Entries proposed solutions to technical issues with a robotic arm for Astrobee, a free-flying... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace
  • 21 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 21

associated with the program rollout, we use both population based morbidity measures from the Demographic and Health Surveys and health facility based mortality data as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Research Services - Faculty & Research

distraction of fundraising and the constraints of third-party grants or sponsorship. HBS also provides a wide array of services to support faculty in the development of a large... View Details
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

relatively little about the effect of conflicting labor market institutions on multinational firms' strategic choice and operating performance. With its decision to invest in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

By: William R. Kerr and Scott Duke Kominers
We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Patents; Labor; Industry Clusters; Industry Structures; Relationships; Competitive Advantage; Technology Industry; California
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  • 28 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

performance, and not performers. Performance may be based on factors besides the talent and motivation of the individual in question, such as job or View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 08 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

performance, and not performers. Performance may be based on factors besides the talent and motivation of the individual in question, such as job or View Details
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

type. They use the information mainly to withhold resources from "undeserving" types, leading to a drastic decline in aggregate transfers. With endogenous information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 5

ourselves. May 2015 Journal of Marketing BYOB: How Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags Leads to Treating Yourself, and the Environment By: Karmarkar, Uma R., and Bryan Bollinger Abstract—As concerns about... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Durr & Company, 1874. Herbert H. Lehman Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library. The Lehmans often received payment for goods in their general store View Details
  • 28 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

see a ‘pandemic’ of bankruptcy filings in the near future,” Gilson says. “The pandemic analogy is particularly apt, in that if the number of new... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
  • March 2016 (Revised February 2023)
  • Teaching Note

Advertising Experiments at RestaurantGrades

By: Michael Luca, Weijia Dai and Hyunjin Kim
Advertising Experiments at RestaurantGrades is an exercise in which students are asked to analyze and make a recommendation on the basis of simulated experimental data. The setting is a hypothetical restaurant review company called RestaurantGrades (RG), which shows... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Marketing; Digital Marketing; Analysis; Performance Effectiveness
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  • 20 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 20

One method multinationals use to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

In the midst of this crisis, VHSS, the German Shipbroker's Association, introduced a proposal to value ships using discounted cash flow analysis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

part of the digestive process of ruminant animals such as cattle—produces methane, a gas about 20 times more damaging that CO 2 in terms of its global warming potential. [29] Modern farming techniques emit... View Details
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Who Values Democracy?

By: Max Miller
This paper examines the conventional view that redistribution is central to the democratization process using data from stock markets. Consistent with this view, democratizations have a large, negative impact on asset valuations driven by a rise in redistribution risk.... View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Financial Markets; Valuation
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  • 31 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

definition, competency-based strategies are dependent on people: Scarce knowledge and expertise drive new-product development, and personal relationships with key clients are at the core of flexible market... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

instrument the transition to public ownership using market returns in the book-building phase of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman