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- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
low "excludability" in the sense that the designed artifact must be shared. Our paper is based on an empirical study of a commons organization created to design new school buildings. We argue that the design commons organization induced teachers to volunteer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
marks clear dividing lines between China’s domestic economy and the rest of the world. It shows how China seeks to manage the links between the two just when western countries are also focusing on decoupling. In order to prosper, business... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
inflection point today, and we must seize the opportunities before us that are central to our mission. Let me give you an example. In the coming years, the leaders of major enterprises will need a truly global perspective. Events such as the emergence of China as a... View Details
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Art Nature Business
It's like the knowledge inside the tree...I was thinking about the nature of materials and how we use them to create our culture. I wasn’t thinking of it from an environmental position, but it became that." ROSEMARY LAING weather #10... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
Brazil, Russia, India, and China Authors:Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger, and Se Yan Abstract Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of public primary education in four of the largest developing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
experience and performance fails to find a consistent effect of diversity in experience on performance. The problem is that diversity in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base but also creates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online
Exercises Advise a startup platform, Picabuu, on how it can capture value, anticipate challenges, acquire new customers, and scale Define the most important characteristics of economies of scale Determine how companies can strengthen... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
everything from cleaning to prescription pickup. But one of the biggest innovations was behind the scenes: Beck and Sapone eschewed the independent contract workers driving the on-demand economy in favor of hiring employees—full-time... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
citing the results of their six-year study of "emerging giants," describe the three strategies these businesses used to become effective global competitors—despite facing financial and bureaucratic disadvantages in their home markets. Some capitalized on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
Cole, and Jeremy Tobacman Publication:Journal of Marketing Research 48 (October 2011) Abstract Recent financial liberalization in emerging economies has led to the rapid introduction of new financial products. Lack of experience with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
1990s, it was clear to Glenn Bradley, Ciba Vision's president, that J&J's dominance provided economies of scale that would doom his company to ever-shrinking profits. Without radically new products, Ciba Vision would slowly decline... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
industry who could also learn from knowledge spillovers. There were downsides to the new industry, however. The creation of the national image of a natural paradise enabled many businesses that were not environmentally sustainable to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
Emerita Deborah Kolb. "Despite bodies of knowledge about social institutions and social issues at the institutional and organizational levels, we know very little about how individual organizations experience and internalize gradual... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
and other economies after World War Two. Yet the historical and management literatures have been poorly integrated. This article seeks to address some of the issues raised in the management literature by contributing a longitudinal case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
of typical businesses (undertaking commercial activity) and not-for-profit organizations (pursuing a social mission). In this essay, I discuss my research, as well as that of others, on social enterprises with the objective of tracing my perspective on the current... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
Joseph R. Biden Jr. becomes the 46th president of the United States at a time when the nation is grappling with several sober realities at once: a deadly pandemic that is claiming the lives of thousands of Americans daily, a bumpy vaccine rollout, a shaky View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
political economy more generally), there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical tests of theory. It is imperative, therefore, that historical tests always involve a vigorous search not only for confirming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
about the idea of the global economy returning to "business as usual." On the HBS Working Knowledge Web portal, Professor Emeritus James L. Heskett asked readers reflecting on September 11 to ponder "the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
Electronic Monitoring Authors:Di Tella, Rafael, and Ernesto Schargrodsky Publication:Journal of Political Economy Abstract We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the re-arrest rates of two groups: individuals released... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne