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- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
the competitive landscape of platforms, Zhu delved into data from Amazon.com, which serves both as the biggest online retailer in the United States and as View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
ambiguity of profits and power, as well as the often-jealous interactions between different solutions to the problem of empire. The book presents a powerful mosaic of imperial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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 reported in the national Health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Watchmaking By: Raffaelli, Ryan, and Richard DeJordy Abstract—This qualitative study examines how influential actors in the Swiss watch industry employed history as a strategic resource in response to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
increase the impact of a mailed communication on conversion rates to lower-cost, therapeutically equivalent medications, even when the testimonial is presented as coming from a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
start, locate, or invest in a city. As HBS professor Michael Porter has explained in The Competitive Advantage of Nations, political units—whether nations or cities - are in competition with each other and... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
from 3% to 15% as a fraction of government budget without negatively affecting publication quality and quantity. This follows incentive policy change and leadership change at labs, an event whose timing is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
months some compelling data have been released that give us more insight into cash flow dynamics of America’s small businesses. This month’s JPMorgan Chase Institute’s Cash is King: Flows, Balances and Buffer Days report showed that on... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
how and why diversifiable risk should be priced in VC deals even though investors are fully diversified. We then take our theory to a unique data set and show that while investors do earn zero alpha on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
provide real-time information on demand, anywhere, anytime and in any form of multimedia. Second, in addition to information, they will have to provide software capabilities, such as allowing a transaction,... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy
offered as the high-speed substitute for mail service in the world of tomorrow. Watson was sixty-five years old when the fair opened, an age when many businessmen think about retirement. But Watson had the... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 14 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?
of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, finds that 19 percent of all drugs approved worldwide are reviewed in December, twice the percentage of a typical month. However, drugs passed before an informal “desk-clearing”... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Below are the views that faculty shared with the HBS community on Earth Day. 1. Robert G. Eccles Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and author of One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy (This article, titled,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
on this subject. What are some of your findings? A: In The Competitive Advantage of Nations, I articulated the phenomenon of clusters as part of an overall effort to grapple with the enormous question of how View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
inflexible, organizational structure to successfully execute a strategy. As companies think through the risks and opportunities of various regional strategies, they also need to clarify what they mean by the... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
said Khanna, are these: How does someone become an entrepreneur in a developing country? How do they overcome all the barriers? How do they provide market-based services to the poor? Khanna is also working... View Details
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
family-owned businesses employ a family member as the CEO. Sam Walton founded and the Walton family still owns Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., for example, and the founder's son Rob Walton is chairman of the board,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
and projector into the churches, community centers, and schools of Harlem to show residents the goods and services available on the Internet. "We're trying to show them that this stuff is relevant to you because you can find View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
minutes. This was not to say that it was better than the warfighters or would replace their jobs, but it was evidence that autonomous robots deployed in this fashion could keep up with the pace of operators, serve as View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman