Accelerator - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

When the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of accelerating decline. Our results have... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

includes projects that have received funding from the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator Fund. Needleman received funding from the accelerator last year, for a project that involves the success rate of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

providers are beginning to offer unique services, creating the facilities and organizations to effectively deliver them, and gathering the data to show superior performance and to continue to improve. Public policy can help accelerate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

should surely be pleased when the commercial sector is motivated to bring its resources to bear on the problem at hand, and prospectively accelerate the distribution of low-cost personal computers to more people much faster than would... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

resulting, just-published book, Business Solutions for the Global Poor, is to accelerate the adoption of new, scalable solutions to the global poverty problem," notes HBS professor John Quelch, a member of the conference committee.... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

No matter how you slice the numbers, all arrows in biotechnology's financial performance after twenty years are still pointing downward, said HBS professor Gary P. Pisano recently. Despite the great promise of the sector—to improve the understanding of disease, View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

investments in green building expertise by local suppliers. These findings suggest that government procurement policies can accelerate the diffusion of new environmental standards, which require coordinated complementary investments by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

might be working with peers in pharmaceuticals or defense to accelerate the development of virtual reality capabilities. In my work, I use the ethnographic methods of anthropology to study transformation as it takes place through shared... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Oct 2006
Op-Ed

Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

chunk of potential managerial wealth, and shareholders can remain assured that incentives are well aligned. Managers will not, however, know if they should try to accelerate earnings or delay them. They will not know what stock price they... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis

06 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Cheers to the American Consumer

concerned or burdened by history. Many live for today or for the next new thing. Early adopters and lead users of new products are listened to and applauded. Their opinions are sought on the Internet. They can accelerate adoption of a new... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

due to economic relations with the EU are a significant component of the perceived network value. Cases & Course MaterialsInternational AIDS Vaccine Initiative Allen Grossman and Catherine RossHarvard Business School Case 310-015 Dedicated to View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

animating insight sprang from his study of Korean War air battles between American F-86s and Soviet Union-made MiG-15s. Although the Soviet plane could accelerate faster, was better armed, and could perform better at higher altitudes, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

accelerate the transfer of technology between countries. Given my long-standing interest in the activities of multinational firms, I wanted to see if there was any empirical evidence for this latter claim. Q: Define technology transfer a... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act

at coping with industry change is not just due to such commonly cited barriers as insufficient resources, he says. "Managers get trapped by success, a condition that I call active inertia, or management's tendency to respond to the most disruptive changes by View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

severity while innovations vary in their sophistication and novelty. We use recurrent-event accelerated failure time models to examine how product failures experienced by firms and their competitors impact subsequent major and minor... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

associated with an increased reliance on the other. We find that the firms affected by the diminution of copyright protection disproportionately accelerated their patenting in subsequent years. But little evidence can be found for any... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

industry, which reached global sales of $1.9 trillion in 2019. Even before the pandemic, roughly 28 percent of global apparel transactions were happening online. At the same time, many brands had closed their physical stores in the so-called “retail apocalypse.” The... View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

12 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

classes, beauty products, and eSports offerings. Chairman Lee and VC Lee believe that KCON is a good vehicle for accelerating the Hallyu wave of Korean culture that was still sweeping the globe and riding this wave in promoting CJ Group... View Details