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- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
reoccurring phenomenon of small, socially isolated groups achieving considerable economic success via concentrated entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States supports our model's underlying mechanisms. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
earnings from uncertain to more certain times. We document that firms report more negative discretionary accruals when financial markets are less certain about their future prospects. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s ARD holding a significant stake, the company had some 63 European financial institutions and banks as shareholders. Management included a stellar group of French business luminaries. The EED investment port-folio grew over time, but Europe (even the United... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
strong example here, with the continued success of its Quicken application against Microsoft Money. The key is finding a large enough market that requires specialized capabilities. Leverage other capabilities from keystones. Effective... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
The demand in the market right now is functionally infinite. DM: One of the big movers in the space is the Frontier Fund, a group led by Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, and McKinsey that committed just short of a billion dollars to... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
Business definition always involves a geographic component. A health care provider must understand the geographic market or service area over which it must compete. Otherwise, the provider will misunderstand the true benchmarks for... View Details
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
processes of production and distribution. This was a massive innovation over the older model of a single owner who tried to oversee everything. Under managerial capitalism, ownership became dispersed, but control remained concentrated in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
consumers and in the communities where we operated. Contrary to competitive motives that seek to improve companies' market share, the risk management motivation mainly attempted to preserve a favorable status quo. Very often these were... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
century--the Electronic Century. Halfway through my research, however, I decided to concentrate completely on the latter topic and make chemicals and pharmaceuticals the subject of a separate volume. The rise of Japan in consumer... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Late last summer Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) got a call from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Hessan's an entrepreneur and executive. And she previously founded the View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
Obstacles facing companies in today's hyper-competitive global markets are seemingly more complex than ever, to the point that managers must rethink many of the basic principles of good operations management, says Robert Hayes. In a new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
whereas the contemporaneous marginal effect is higher for generalists. The paper also provides a key methodological insight to the marketing and economics literature. In the Nerlove-Arrow framework, moment conditions that are typically... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
market? The first way to capture pollutants is at the source, whether it’s in an automobile or at a power plant. It’s also the easiest way to do it, because you have a concentrated source of the molecules you’re trying to gather. Next, we... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
became. With his eyes on the future, he drastically pruned the company's product line, jettisoning items that held little promise and concentrating on data processing. The most important decision any company ever makes is what View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
their attendant risk. The case then describes the pain inflicted by raising foreclosures, as well as the financial market ramifications of the rise in mortgage delinquencies. It also chronicles the response of the U.S. and European... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
structure of financial assets and non-fundamental risk. An asset is fragile if its owners collectively have to buy or sell. Such assets are susceptible to non-fundamental price movements. An asset can be fragile because of concentrated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
Carroll Illustration by Dennis Balogh Founded as a gold mining company in 1917 in South Africa by Ernest Oppenheimer (with help from Herbert Hoover and J. P. Morgan), Anglo American plc is the world’s fourth-largest diversified mining company by View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
shows. Innovation: A select number of companies shift to a more advanced innovative stage by integrating sustainability into the core of the business in ways that transform the company. Strategies tend to be driven by the market with an... View Details
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
followed by people who are 100 miles away, and so forth in concentric circles. My research on ethnic networks suggests this channel facilitates faster knowledge transfer and faster adoption of foreign technologies. For example, if the... View Details