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  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

offshore clusters of multinationals are not a simple reflection of domestic industrial clusters. Agglomeration economies including capital-good market externality and technology diffusion play a more important role in the offshore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2013
  • Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

with shale gas development can be incredibly disruptive locally, and fracking water usage clearly competes with local values and legacy uses. But shale gas production appears environmentally manageable, (including the risks from fugitive... View Details
Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

are incompatible mediated the relationship between ambient cultural disharmony and creativity. Alternative mechanisms such as negative affect and cognitive disruption were not viable mediators. Although ambient cultural disharmony View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2016
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March 1, 2016

which he credited with helping to create a performance-driven, transparency-focused culture, was an information technology dashboard system that provided managers and front-line workers with a wealth of real-time information. Would the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2021 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Hotwire.com: Navigating Through Turbulence

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Manny de Zarraga and Eric Levine
On September 10, 2001, after speaking at an industry conference at New York’s World Trade Center, Hotwire co-founder Spencer Rascoff boarded a flight from Newark to San Francisco. After returning home, Rascoff awoke the next morning to a phone call informing him that... View Details
Keywords: September 11; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Disruption; Decisions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Growth Management; Digital Platforms; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Air Transportation Industry; Tourism Industry; San Francisco
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  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

adoption of feed-in tariffs, subsidies, and tax credits in the 1980s. However the poor technological capabilities of U.S.-based firms meant that it was Danish and other foreign companies that benefitted most. Subsequently the combination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

paid forward in kind, greed was paid forward more than generosity. This asymmetry was driven by negative affect, such that a positive affect intervention disrupted the tendency to pay greed forward. Implications for models of generalized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Get Off the Dime!

Buffalo. We would use the same basic steps to purchase a pen, generator, or a hammer. The point was to use new technology to take advantage of economies of scale. The executive committee for our company met one month to discuss changes... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52308 Executive Development Programs Enter the Digital Vortex: I. Disrupting the Demand Landscape By: Narayandas, Das, and Mihnea C. Moldoveanu Abstract—Executive development programs have... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world in order to get fast access to the technologies they need to modernize their product lines. ChemChina is a... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

Using Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Firm Survival, Employment Growth, and Innovative Performance Authors:Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract Scientific research and its translation into commercialized technology is a driver of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2005
  • HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

to leave, all in about one hour." More than thirty years later, Professor David Upton makes Benihana the very first case he teaches in his Technology and Operations Management course (POM's successor). Explains Upton, "After... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 28 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

customer’s money is safe. Operators also need to think of themselves as more than technology companies and take responsibility for their agents’ actions. “Imagine what kind of trust is needed between the customer and the [unknown] agent... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications
  • February 2021 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

TikTok in 2020: Super App or Supernova?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Dan Maher and Dan O'Brien
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around a simple idea – helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. In less than a decade, it had become one of the world’s most valuable private companies, with investors... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Business Organization; Change Management; Disruption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Health Pandemics; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Channels; Network Effects; Digital Platforms; Product Design; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Social Issues; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; United States; China
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  • 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

investments to become the top SBA lender in New England in the midst of the Great Recession, when other banks were pulling back. But with technology threatening to disrupt Eastern’s relationship banking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 7

transformation of the very nature of the innovation search process. We find intermediate disclosure has the advantage of efficiently steering development towards improving existing solution approaches, but also the effect of limiting experimentation and narrowing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

assumptions are present in the structure of technology and labor flows within Silicon Valley and its surrounding areas. Our model further identifies how the lengths over which agglomerative forces operate influence the shapes and sizes of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

unavailable at this time. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43686 The Spatial Diffusion of Technology Authors:Comin, Diego A., Mikhail Dmitriev, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg Abstract We empirically study View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

divisions. This revision is shorter and provides a simpler description of the technology involved. "Teradyne: Managing Disruptive Change" deals with the same set of problems from the perspective of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

incentivized boards of directors may have played a role in protecting the interests of outside investors. Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:NBER Macroeconomics Annual (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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