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- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “I think it's okay to want to dent the universe, but I think it's best if you're an entrepreneur to think about something that's in the present that needs to be solved right... View Details
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
instruction himself without lessening mine." If I know a better design, I can use it, and you can use it too, without lessening my enjoyment. This nonrival property supports the formation of user-innovation communities, where... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
For one thing, Black hosts were underrepresented in the data that was used to train the algorithm. What’s more, says Zhang, societal bias may result in different demand curves for Black-owned properties versus white-owned ones. Renters... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
looking at the health of America’s supply chains shouldn’t just consider large companies, but also small innovative suppliers of both goods and services. Are they getting access to the capital, the trained workforce, and the intellectual View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
countries—including, for instance, the defense of intellectual property rights in some countries and the neglect of counterfeiting and piracy in others—is opening up new debates and controversies on this... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
and services they consume. In many cases, collaborative user innovators are vying with producers for intellectual property rights and the control of standards and innovation trajectories. In light of these... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
shape the moment we find ourselves in. When we consider Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, or Trayvon Martin – how far have we really come? The American Myth is that legislation and civil rights reforms provided a break... View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
force in the Gulf. Had Bush first approached a deeply skeptical Congress, agreement on the use of force would have been unlikely. A negative vote would have stymied any subsequent American efforts to build an international coalition. Getting the View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
distinctively African-American names are 16% less likely to be accepted relative to identical guests with distinctively White names. Discrimination occurs among landlords of all sizes, including small landlords sharing the property and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
government programs. [Editor's note: In a nutshell, regulatory capture refers to the tendency of regulators to favor, in effect, the interest of the industry they are supposed to be regulating rather than the public interest.] Any program that assigns subsidies or... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
with ideas on how to fix the problem. Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform by Meg Rithmire (Cambridge University Press) Assistant Professor Rithmire explores the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918 Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Noel Maurer Abstract Abstract We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
we can start combating what is already a crisis, is to get modules out into the field as quickly as possible. Can the sector as a whole grow quickly enough to meet the need? I am definitely optimistic. Given all of the investment in this space, we are at a tipping... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Performance Frontier. Publisher's link: https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=25586&i=25588&cs=266ba43f09b94a7a5f5f39a2ab0d9479 2006 Management Science Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
interests. I leverage the positive accounting literature's current understanding of properties of financial reports to develop three hypotheses on corporate accountability reporting. I argue that an accountability reporting system is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
decadal timeline, which would put SEEQC and its chip-based systems right at the bleeding edge of the next computer revolution. Plenty of challenges lie ahead. Right now, for instance, qubits are so delicate... View Details
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
the existing one. The results were significantly better—life-year gains of 8 percent—in a second study for policies that could be based on all score components considered by policymakers, while continuing to meet the fairness properties... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
intellectual agility one develops at HBS is very helpful in this part of the world." Observes HBS associate professor Robert E. Kennedy, who is conducting research on high-tech clusters in emerging markets, "Some of the institutions needed to promote an entrepreneurial... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
the single decision-making authority of a hierarchy is optimal. The paper therefore argues that when enterprise IT is required, so is an electronic hierarchy: a collaboration in which one member has all required decision rights over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
rights as the need for new technologies like electric vehicle batteries expand. More crises and less peace are bad for everyone, certainly including businesses. As Lise Grande explained in an interview with Climate Stories: “The stakes... View Details