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- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
to other firms than non-star analysts. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13633 The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution: Evidence from the Software Industry Authors:Alan MacCormack, John... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
publisher of Harvard Business School's NewBusiness, recently sat down with Tripsas to learn more about her research. Michael J. Roberts: How would you define the territory your work covers? Mary Tripsas: Essentially I look at the creation and View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
over a 100-year period, and we welcome the use of the database for scholarship activities throughout academia. Future projects may involve the analysis of the founder-to-CEO succession process, the evolution of leadership within specific... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-048.pdf Behavioral Decision Research, Legislation, and Society: Three Cases Author:Max H. Bazerman Abstract No abstract available. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-049.pdf Fashioning an Industry: The Emergence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
could also explore how differing trajectories of technological development influence the evolution of industrial clusters. It would also be interesting to chart the attempts by many regional development... View Details
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
HBS Working Knowledge contributor Carol Elsen conducted an e-mail interview with Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner about their new book, The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth. Elsen: Since the dot-com implosion, how has the venture capital View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
sharper increases in labor productivity. The ethnic transfer mechanism is especially strong in high-tech industries and among Chinese economies. The findings suggest channels for transferring codified and tacit knowledge partly shape the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
is just one of many dilemmas that can incite insomnia in a sharing-economy platform provider. There’s also the threat of disintermediation between producers and consumers; the fear of trying to compete in a winner-take-all market; and the challenge of attracting... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
that priming relevant networks (e.g., family or friends) makes products associated with those networks more attractive. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/anik norton.pdf The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
depression, led to a crisis in the industry. Nonetheless, the pioneering group of forecasters shaped the core problems, and invented many of the techniques, that influenced the maturation of the industry in the decades that followed.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
examines the evolution of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. It focuses on two companies, Bayer and Henkel, that have been identified as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
aspect of TIB is Cognizant Business Consulting, a 1,700-person group which advises clients in the context of helping them develop IT solutions for their business challenges. More recently, and as the next evolution of the TIB model,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
A New Ecosystem for Business and Society
In their opening comments at the IS2K conference, Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine and Harvard Business School Dean Kim B. Clark called forth, respectively, the spirits of the industrial past and the high-tech future to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
HarperBusiness in 2003].The book analyzes the impact of this remarkable family on one of the most important companies in the world. Chandler: I've completed my book on the chemical and pharmaceutical industries [Shaping the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
offers executives a broader understanding of IT in the context of the company, industry, and world, while teaching them to think about IT management in a way that is appropriate for the 21st century. Professor Richard L. Nolan, faculty chair of DIS, discussed the View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
out if this new strategy has paid off for investors and their portfolio companies. Nanda and colleagues present their findings in a paper scheduled to appear in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Financial Economics, titled Cost of Experimentation and the View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
Industrial Era, product innovation and operations management predominated. Product innovation ensured the continuous flow of new products that would sustain growth or market share or both. Operations management ensured that costs and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
does not do anything to destroy the underlying rigor." —Rosabeth Moss Kanter In his introductory remarks, Marquis cited the ever-changing health-care industry as an example of why institutional analysis is important. "It is a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
organizational marketing. Understanding Cross-sector Collaboration My field-based research on collaborations between businesses and nonprofits, encompassing a wide range of industries and social sectors, revealed a distinctive pattern in... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
conducted in France and Germany to a comparative study of all of the advanced industrialized countries. My goal is to analyze the historical evolution of consumption in the advanced View Details