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  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

hypothesized that coal mines near Pittsburgh led that city to specialization in industries, like steel, with significant scale economies and that those big firms led to a dearth of entrepreneurial human capital across several generations. We test this View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

Author Read The Interview These scaling strategies have been integral to the campus's design, both at its inception and today. When students first moved to the School's current location, the idea of a small residential community already... View Details
Keywords: Education
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

this spate of horrible accounting scandals. I pin the blame on economists, because they articulated the "principal-agent theory"; the idea is that the agents who are the managers of a company can't be trusted to carry out the... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
  • 09 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

shareholder wealth maximization when fulfilling their fiduciary duty (Orts, 1992), the Delaware Court endorsed this same idea in 1989 when it allowed Time's management to reject a lucrative tender offer from Paramount Communications to... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
  • 13 Mar 2019
  • News

The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)

Taylor Wiegele and Sierra Smith on Shark Tank (photos by ABC) How did you come up with the idea for Zorpads? Sierra Smith: “We started Zorpads as part of a school project for FIELD 3 (which apparently no longer exists as required... View Details
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-021.pdf Imperfect Information, Patent Publication, and the Market for Ideas By: Hegde, Deepak, and Hong Luo Abstract—In this study, we investigate the role of an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

holding them accountable?” Gehl said she and Porter wondered. “What’s going on?” Porter, who studies economic development and competitiveness, said the idea to examine politics through the lens of business stemmed from his experience... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 26 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

and how they are evolving. It gives an idea of current best practices and gaps and projects what the future requirements might be. The second discipline, building and editing, is an assessment of one's own channels with a view to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

Lots of people have great ideas for new products and services, but most lack the imagination and doggedness to actually get them launched. Darren Rovell is a notable exception. As a college student, he had a passion for the business of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 01 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 1

associated with private money creation, the government should tilt its issuance more towards short maturities. The idea is that the government may have a comparative advantage relative to the private sector in bearing refinancing risk... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

inside. Q: You have studied boards of directors for a number of years. How would you like to see boards evolve in the next ten years or so? A: I'd like to see more boards paying attention to the ideas that we put forward in the book,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

history of practices that insulate companies from international competition. Small retailers have been protected from big retailers. The idea took hold that the Japanese approach [of restraining competition] was superior and that it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Rival Visions

unfamiliar with complex management, he proved a superlative administrator, with a sure sense of managerial hierarchies . Most of all, Hamilton wrote—hundreds, ultimately thousands of pages: orders, letters, reorganization plans, essays on strategy, View Details
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

of future generations to meet their own needs," it is slowly becoming a part of the lexicon of business leaders around the world. Easy Being Green? "One of the problems with turning the idea of environmental sustainability into a viable... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb
  • 17 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

protect their investors? Was this a deliberate move to draw more investment? Does this shed light on today's common one-share, one-vote practices? A: The book is a bit critical of the idea that "one-share, one-vote" is magic for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

focused niche strategy have an ultimate advantage in the creation of novelty. This is partly because a focused new idea can more closely correspond to a new firm than is possible in vertical or modular industry structures: Everything... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 21 Mar 2016
  • HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

They selectively try to choose the better reviews. And at that point in class the students start debating what is appropriate, what is not appropriate, what is actual manipulation, what is actually self-serving by selecting the better ones? So this View Details
Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel
  • 02 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

can get them online and Best Buy will sell them to you in a more efficient way. Their stores are going to be all about the cool, interesting, new—what I would call the fresh items. This idea of freshness is to keep the consumer engaged in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Lords of Strategy

firm’s approach differed from BCG in that it kept its work closely held and its ideas proprietary, thus earning itself a reputation for being secretive. In another departure, Bain vowed the firm would work with only one client per... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
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