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- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
deciding between pursuing a community- or a market-based innovation model: The nature of the innovation problem at hand. Where the firm is in its technology life cycle may drive its choices. Mature technologies are amenable to markets,... View Details
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
New inventors received more patent citations than incumbent inventors, suggesting a cycle of creative destruction. The financial returns to technological development were high. At the macro level we identify a strong relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
Kaplan and Porter are looking closely at alternative funding models that help align incentives with better patient outcomes, especially bundled payments that strongly motivate providers along a patient’s care cycle to integrate and... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
Things—finally fail to attract investor interest, then we might posit that the cycle is reaching its trough. So if, in the wake of a future sector crash, entrepreneurs and investors anticipate a sector-level threat-rigidity response, what... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
advertisers should consider the stage of the consumer purchasing cycle they aim to impact: do they want to create awareness, interest, or spark a purchase? If the goal is to simply create a buzz, then entertain as much as possible—as many... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
urgent needs of the future. Start-ups, on the other hand, are intensely focused on innovation but are also beholden to the impatience and boom-and-bust cycles of the venture capital industry. In his new book, The Architecture of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
proprietary technology, athenaNet, to a new business, athenaHealth, that would help physicians manage their practice, billing, and revenue cycles and maintain electronic patient records more efficiently and cost effectively using the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
Through his impact investing firm, Doreo Partners, he founded Babban Gona, which means “great farm” in Hausa, as a for-profit social enterprise. “Low economies of scale keep smallholder farmers in a cycle of poverty,” Masha explained.... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
government is so driven by short-term election cycles and fundraising. It makes doing visionary things very difficult. In some ways, NASA offloading some of the shorter-term development to companies like Blue, and reclaiming it’s... View Details
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
mental health issues that are entirely manageable, and by making it more costly for them to come forward. "You can imagine a fallout from this tragedy, subjecting everyone from crane operators to Uber drivers to random mental health checks," says Quelch. "You can... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
Therefore, AI could perpetuate a cycle of higher workloads, leading to burnout, clinical errors, and poorer patient outcomes. History has shown that payers are hesitant to self-regulate in changing their profit-driven models,... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
coming election cycle and beyond. It is a judicial landmark that is sure to be one of the defining opinions during the career of Chief Justice John Roberts. And finally, it is a social landmark, since it has bolstered efforts to move the... View Details
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
has a positive effect on current hours. As we show, the model also has reasonable implications for stock prices. We estimate our model for data post-1984 and show that the innovations shock accounts for nearly a third of the variation in output at business View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles By: Bräuning, Falk, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract—Foreign banks’ lending to firms in emerging market economies (EMEs) is large and denominated predominantly in U.S. dollars. This creates... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- November 2024
- Teaching Note
Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?
By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli and Sabrina Howell
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 825-047. In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency platform Mercado Bitcoin, had to decide how to scale: go public, M&A with a bank, or take a VC big check. In a highly volatile market, Roberto Dagnoni, chairman of the board, viewed the... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Decision Making; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Strategic Planning; Venture Capital; Problems and Challenges; Business Cycles; Digital Platforms; Emerging Markets; Market Timing; Expansion; Diversification; Valuation; Value Creation; Investment Funds; Initial Public Offering; Price; Price Bubble; Negotiation Offer; Information Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Brazil; Latin America
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
(BRFSS) data on 2.3 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of business cycles, with implications for growth... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
a vicious cycle of accelerating decline. Our results have important implications for understanding managerial incentives and the internal processes that lead to sustained advantage. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Montague Corporation: Unfolding the Future in Cycling Harvard Business School Case 808-087 Montague has developed a major innovation that creates a new sub-category in the bicycle industry: a full-sized, high-quality bicycle that folds.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace