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Matthew C. Weinzierl | About
Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on the optimal View Details
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
re-emergence. “What this research suggests is that it is possible to prolong the life of some technologies, along with the organizations and communities that support them” Take, for example, the mechanical wristwatch. Swiss watchmakers... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
The political perspective we develop contributes to organizational theory by showing (a) the importance of government signaling as a mechanism of political influence, (b) how different types of dependency on the government expose firms to... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
science-powered platform. Social Enterprise Track, 2021 Shelly Xu Design (SXD) Shelly Xu, HBS 2021 Ahmed Fardin Junga Park, HBS 2021 Social Enterprise Track & Crowd Favorite Winner Vocal Justice Shawon Jackson, HKS Social Enterprise Track... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
negative. It remains so once we add an extensive set of further industry- and firm-level controls. Rising import exposure also reduces global employment, global sales, and global R&D expenditure at the firm level. It would appear that a simple View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
support value-based care is essential. A value-enabling IT platform must organize data around conditions. February 2020 2020 TDABC Starter Kit by Professor Robert Kaplan and Dr. Syed Shehab This article is designed for new partners to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
business school in the 1970s, Segel spent part of his studies in Florence. “It had an enormous impact on my life,” he says now. Segel fell in love with architecture and design there, a passion which led him into the real estate business... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
dating clubs, game consoles, and so on. So the idea is to subsidize one side in order to attract it more or less irrespectively of the other side and then turn to the second side and charge it positive prices. Of course, depending on the market, the timing and View Details
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
labor-intensive manufacturing process and the high prices of Zotter chocolates limit the scalability of the company, even though the founder desires to grow. While the founder has many ideas for the firm, it is not clear which path would be View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
illegally dumping trash outside of officially sanctioned collection areas are steep—violators can be fined $4,000 and have their vehicles impounded—but until Tisch came along, there was no enforcement mechanism and therefore little... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22
the mechanism of industry migration proposed in models like Duranton (2007). Shaping Online Consumer Choice by Partitioning the Web Authors:Jolie M. Martin and Michael I. Norton Publication:Psychology and Marketing 26, no. 10 (October... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
their way up the mountain. After the two days testing, and constant interactive feedback, the design team returned to headquarters and immediately debriefed and extracted key learnings. Prototypes were quickly developed and sent to... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
heterogeneous effects of globalization on the interest rate setting by microfinance institutions (MFIs) around the world. We consider MFIs as a mechanism to overcome the institutional void of credit for small entrepreneurs in developing... View Details
- 01 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself
grateful for was the opportunity to understand and live through a wide variety of circumstances. It built my empathy towards others and instilled in me a sense of gratitude for the small things in life. I went to MIT undergrad and studied View Details
- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
narrow, optimized supply chains," Shih says. "They put all of their eggs with one supplier that had the best product at the lowest price." Suppliers Squeezed, Too At the same time the suppliers, also under pressure to... View Details
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector
by about 17 percent, Greenstein explains. “There are lots of suppliers behind the scenes inventing new ways of designing their components and redesigning and restructuring the supply chain,” says Greenstein. “In our paper, we brought out... View Details
- 27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27
matches in such markets. We find that introducing a signaling mechanism increases the welfare of workers and the number of matches, while the change in firm welfare is ambiguous. A signaling mechanism adds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set forth in previous chapters to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
governments create dysfunctional systems that can be predicted to lead to bad behaviors, I see the problem starting with the dysfunctional system. And I see the creating of optimal systems as a key leadership function. Q: Specifically,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11
that pursuing both chemicals and fuels added even more complexity to a business that was already executing multiple development steps in parallel. The case looks at the various strategic and operational decisions facing Melo as he planned the company's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace