Knowledge Production - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers

result in banks charging consumers multiple overdraft fees rather than just one, draining significant cash from people living at the edge of their means at a time when inflation is further reducing their buying power. "The misconception is that checking accounts are... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

22 Aug 2005
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Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

industries. Europe and Japan had to spend the immediate postwar decade undergoing extensive reconstruction, heavily dependent on official aid from the United States, yet over time Europe and Japan closed the technological and productivity... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm performance have largely centered on economies of scope achieved by sharing common resources, such as... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Zealand's Marine Cluster (2009) Nicaragua The Nicaraguan Coffee Cluster (2006) Nigeria Lagos ICT Services Cluster (2017) Nollywood — The Nigerian Film Industry (2008) Nigeria Financial Services (2008) Norway Norway’s Fish and Fish View Details

13 Aug 2008
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The Inner Life of Leaders

progress in life and in business. HBS Working Knowledge asked Zaleznik to reflect on the inner life of leaders. Martha Lagace: Your book is an intellectual and introspective discussion of leadership that seems rare in the literature of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

in society. Meeting this aspiration requires equipping them with knowledge and tools that will enable them to understand what it takes to have a positive impact in the world. In line with this objective, this module note focuses on how... View Details

13 Mar 2023
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What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

sewing machine, you have to learn how to use the machine and make sure your customers are going to like the products that you’ll produce with the sewing machine. The grace period afforded people the time to make significant investments... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

2015
Book

How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized. These conversations have become a rhetorical contest, one where opposing sides try to achieve victory through playing on fear, distrust,... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Culture; Values and Beliefs; Knowledge Dissemination

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19 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

tries to put the right number of products in the right stores at the right time, so it sells as much as possible and doesn’t lose track of stock. As part of the study, Tapestry managers who oversee shelf stocking provided employees called... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Business History - Faculty & Research

production technology who used attorneys in connection with his patenting work at a time when Japan was still in the process of formally institutionalizing its patent attorney system. In accordance with Lamoreaux and Sokoloff's... View Details

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By: Kyle R. Myers

Professor Myers studies the economics of what determines the rate and direction of innovation. He has examined the reallocation of scientists through the use of targeted research grants at the National Institutes of Health, and is working to further understand how... View Details

23 Apr 2024
In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

09 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

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Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies

By: Tatiana Sandino

Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details

01 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Five Lessons From My First Year at HBS

Elisa Djuhar (MBA 2023) is from Singapore. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science from Cornell University. Before HBS, she oversaw research and development, and quality and safety of food products at various CPG companies. Never in... View Details

February 2011 (Revised December 2012)
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Porsche: The Cayenne Launch

By: John Deighton, Jill Avery and Jeffrey Fear

Can an online discussion forum supply insight into the evolution of brand meaning? In 2003 Porsche launched a sport utility vehicle, dividing Porsche purists from newcomers to the brand. Vocal members of online and offline Porsche communities ridiculed the Cayenne SUV... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Risk Management; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Social and Collaborative Networks; Auto Industry

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11 Apr 2023
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Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

S&P 500? There are trillions and trillions of pension assets in S&P funds. Some things are just sticky because they are the benchmark. You Might Also Like: 8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem How to Get... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products

04 Apr 2023
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How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

productivity, mainly by eliminating commute time, the evidence thus far suggests two things: We don’t yet know how to measure productivity changes from remote work and that, even when we learn, the impact may not be very significant. Many... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Jul 2008
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Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

natural gas market. Diversification into water utilities and broadband soon followed, as did expansion to other countries that promised to deregulate and privatize energy production and distribution. Unfortunately, applying the company's... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

09 Jan 2012
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Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

as nearby supporting industries; the company's ability to seek and retrieve knowledge in this setting; and its capability to do something better than competitors. An example of a firm playing tactical checkers instead of strategic chess... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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