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  • March 2022
  • Article

Carbon Footprinting and Pricing under Climate Concerns

By: Marco Bertini, Stefan Buehler, Daniel Halbheer and Don Lehmann
This article studies how organizations should design a product by choosing the carbon footprint and price in a market with climate concerns. The authors first show how the cost and demand effects of reducing the product carbon footprint determine the profit-maximizing... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Footprint; Carbon Offsetting; Climate Impact; Net-zero Emissions; Pricing; Climate Change; Product Design; Price; Environmental Sustainability; Marketing
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  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Again and Again

drain. On the one hand what? On the other hand, you can feel it working for this person. Duhigg: That does seem like a good idea; I might drink a beer in the shower today. It’s interesting: My book, Supercommunicators, is about the View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

forthcoming Journal of Finance Brokers and Order Flow Leakage: Evidence from Fire Sales By: Barbon, Andrea, Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, and Augustin Landier Abstract—Using trade-level data, we View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2014
  • Chapter

Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Reasoning in Entrepreneurial Theory and Research

By: G. Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani
This chapter draws on theories of entrepreneurship and history to explore the ways in which historical processes play an integral role in entrepreneurship. It builds off the plea by Joseph Schumpeter for an active exchange between historical approaches and theories of... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Business History; Entrepreneurship; History; Organizations
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  • 14 May 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? Field Experimental Evidence from Scientific Peer Review

Keywords: by Misha Teplitskiy, Hardeep Ranu, Gary Gray, Michael Menietti, Eva Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories

By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano
Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts
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  • 2022
  • Chapter

Capitalism and the Environment

By: Geoffrey Jones
Capitalism drove the environmental decimation of the planet. The environment was seen as a free good, while the consequences of dirty industrial and agricultural processes were seen as external to the firm. Public policies largely allowed this to happen, as politicians... View Details
Keywords: History; Environment; Sustainability; Capitalism; Ethics; Business History; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Climate Change
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  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

2018 Individual Creativity in the Workplace An Integrated Model of Dynamic Problem Solving within Organizational Constraints By: Cromwell, Johnathan R., Teresa M. Amabile, and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Rapid View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • January 2011
  • Case

Masdar and Tianjin: Eco-Cities

By: John D. Macomber
Compares Masdar City and Tianjin Eco-City, two high profile "sustainable cities." Each showcases technological and financial innovation. Is it real? Is it replicable and defensible? The case is intended to introduce main concepts and tradeoffs with respect to rapid... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business Model; Development Economics; Urban Development; Cash Flow; Project Finance; Competitive Advantage; Environmental Sustainability; City; Infrastructure
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  • Article

Technology, Identity, and Inertia: Through the Lens of 'The Digital Photography Company'

By: Mary Tripsas
Organizations often experience difficulty when pursuing new technology. Large bodies of research have examined the behavioral, social, and cognitive forces that underlie this phenomenon; however, the role of an organization's identity remains relatively unexplored.... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Disruptive Innovation; Organizational Culture; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Identity; Perception; Technology Adoption
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Scientific Production: An Exploration into Organization, Resource Allocation, and Funding

By: Jerry Thursby, Marie Thursby, Karim R. Lakhani, Kyle R. Myers, Nina Cohodes, Sarah Bratt, Dennis Byrski, Hannah Cohoon and Maria Roche
Production of scientific knowledge is core to civilizational advancement in economic and material wellbeing of societies. Despite its fundamental importance, however, a systematic effort to quantitatively study the factors underlying scientific production, particularly... View Details
Keywords: Funding; Science; Knowledge; Research; Information Management; Resource Allocation
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Industry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms

By: Gaston Llanes and Ramiro de Elejalde
We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of Open Source (OS) and Proprietary (P) firms. Two novel aspects of the model are: (1) participation in OS arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (2) OS and P firms may (or may... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Sharing; Industry Structures; Open Source Distribution; Research and Development
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  • 12 Jul 2016
  • News

Tesla’s Strategy Is Risky and Aggressive, but It Has Worked

  • March, 2023
  • Article

Academic Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Advisors and Their Advisees' Outcomes

By: Maria P. Roche
The transfer of complex knowledge and skills is difficult, often requiring intensive interaction and extensive periods of co-working between a mentor and mentee, which is particularly true in apprenticeship-like settings and on-the-job training. This paper studies a... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Higher Education; Training; Personal Development and Career; Knowledge Dissemination
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    Paul Hamilton

    Paul studies the economic complements needed for firms to realize productivity gains from machine learning and artificial intelligence. These complements include data, human capital & skills, organizational processes, and business models. 
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    • 2013
    • Book

    Business and the Environment: Critical Perspectives in Business and Management

    By: Susse Georg and Andrew J. Hoffman
    Over the past four decades, the concept of corporate environmentalism has passed through multiple iterations. Prompted by landmark environmental events such the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), the Santa Barbara oil spill, the Cuyahoga River fire,... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Management; Natural Environment
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    We are studying the practical application of Michael Porter's value-based strategy to reform health care by examining best practices of integrated practice units, outcome measurement, cost measurement, value-based payment, episode based payment, regionalization of... View Details
    • Article

    Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

    By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Oded Galor
    This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; Transformation
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    • November–December 2023
    • Article

    Iterative Coordination and Innovation: Prioritizing Value over Novelty

    By: Sourobh Ghosh and Andy Wu
    An innovating organization faces the challenge of how to prioritize distinct goals of novelty and value, both of which underlie innovation. Popular practitioner frameworks like Agile management suggest that organizations can adopt an iterative approach of frequent... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Novelty; Goals; Specialization; Coordination; Field Experiment; Software Development; Agile; Scrum; Iteration; Iterative; Organizations; Innovation and Invention; Value; Goals and Objectives; Integration; Applications and Software
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    • 15 Oct 2019
    • News

    Bridging Business and Engineering

    team leader. Perelson was especially pleased to learn about HBS’s new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, which would enable him to bridge the worlds of business and engineering by developing insights... View Details