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  • 04 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Outsource Your Marketing?

outsource most of their marketing activities. The benefits to business include cost savings and improved quality. Additionally, many firms lack "left-brain" analytical skills in-house, even though... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin
  • 28 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

released in May 2013, economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis quantified the costs of increased regulation on community banks, modeling the impact of new regulatory costs as the hiring of... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking
  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

  PublicationsUnconscious Thought Works Bottom-up and Conscious Thought Works Top-down When Forming an Impression Authors:Maarten W. Bos and Ap Dijksterhuis Publication:Social Cognition 29, no. 6 (2011)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

from any innovative venture must be assessed within the framework of a specific business model, which will specify how revenues will be generated, from whom, and what costs will be incurred in so doing. In... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

consequences that could largely be understood in terms of dollars and cents. This case showed me that perspective was wrong, and that the technological innovation that enabled... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 11 Jun 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 1991
  • Chapter

Financing Sub-National Government Expenditures: Perspectives from the United States Experience

By: Dutch Leonard
Keywords: Government and Politics; Cost; Local Range; United States
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  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

2011) Abstract In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2016
  • Blog Post

4 Updates About Peek Weekend at HBS

for all Peek participants. 4. Some things about Peek Weekend will stay the same Not everything will be changing! Peek is still open to college students who are rising juniors, seniors, and new graduates (Class of 2016, 2017 or 2018 from... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

regulatory guidelines. Finally, I consider how the regulatory process affects small firms' market entry patterns and find that small firms are less likely to be pioneers in new device markets, a fact consistent with relatively higher... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Mar 2020
  • Blog Post

The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives on COVID-19

these times. Be open with your team and give them ways to reach your executive team that may not have been as readily available in the past. 2) Cut costs wherever you can before letting go of employees.... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 13

Abstract Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 1985
  • Case

Business Research Corp. (A)

By: William A. Sahlman
Contains a description of a decision confronting an entrepreneur: which of two investment proposals should he accept to fund the creation and marketing of a database that comprises the full text of research reports produced by Wall Street investment banking firms? The... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Cost vs Benefits; Valuation; Investment Banking; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Deal; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Service Industry
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  • 09 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

performance and succession, corporate strategy, and executive compensation. In a recent interview at Harvard Business School, governance expert Jay Lorsch, the School's Louis Kirstein Professor of Human... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 26 Jun 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) used the electric companies' "legacy infrastructure"— rights-of-way, poles and conduits, and a highly-trained workforce—to install an all fiber network in key... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 21 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?

concept that people will purchase music online. But it seems the recording companies themselves have done little on their own to experiment with models here, such as tiered pricing (hits cost more) and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Music
  • May 2013
  • Article

Hybrid Innovation in Meiji Japan

By: Tom Nicholas
Japan's hybrid innovation system during the Meiji era of technological modernization provides a useful laboratory for examining the effectiveness of complementary mechanisms to patents. Patents were introduced in 1885, and by 1911, 1.2 million mostly non-pecuniary... View Details
Keywords: Prizes; Technological Innovation; System; Patents; Knowledge; Value; Cost vs Benefits; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Performance Effectiveness; Japan
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  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

give more, that giving indeed causes increased happiness, and that these two relationships may operate in a circular fashion. Second, we consider whether advertising these benefits of charitable giving—asking people to give in order to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 16, 2016

small association with violations in the unauthorized channel. Last, we link our results to the literatures on agency theory, transaction cost analysis, and theories of price obfuscation. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 12, 2016

customers rather than take possession of and responsibility for the products or services in question, they have inherently low cost structures and fat gross margins. They are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne