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The Future of Economic, Business, and Social History
By: G. Jones, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen and Stephen Broadberry
Three leading scholars in the fields of business, economic, and social history review the current state of these disciplines and reflect on their future trajectory. Geoffrey Jones reviews the development of business history since its birth at the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Economic History; Business History; History; Asia; Africa; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
Jones, G., Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, and Stephen Broadberry. "The Future of Economic, Business, and Social History." Scandinavian Economic History Review 60, no. 3 (2012): 225–253.
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-010.pdf IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property Authors:Joachim Henkel, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Willy C. Shih Abstract Distributed value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
benefits associated with IFRS adoption. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-032.pdf The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard Abstract The central role of... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
against it. Our review includes 129 studies spanning three levels of organization: within a single firm, across firms, and open community-based development. Across these levels, the hypothesis was supported in 69% of the relevant cases,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
leadership opens up and reveals the actual nature of being when one is being a leader and opens up and reveals the source of one's actions when exercising leadership. And ontology's associated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
A variety of academic work argues a relationship exists between the structure of a development organization and the design of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products are often said to "mirror" the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has been largely correlational, leaving View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have
training data from large language models. It’s still an open question how to reliably determine how much memorization a given LLM is doing of its training set, which I think could be a standard analysis that I imagine any company is going... View Details
- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
significant challenges faced by the country. Along with protesting racially motivated violence, the Black Lives Matter movement has opened broader conversations around social justice, including the need for economic opportunity to be far... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
offering a different set of features, a different array of services, or different logistical arrangements. The Internet affects operational effectiveness and strategic positioning in very different ways. It makes it harder for companies to sustain operational... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
of performance? Tushman says they need an overarching aspiration (for a watch company, it might be "We're going to tell time," without being wedded to any particular technology). Also required are internal architectures that... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
other stages of a project in which the team is defining the problem, gathering data, or synthesizing results." In terms of how to design corporate offices, the findings in "Facts and Figuring" provide rationale for the hot View Details
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
order of tasks. A complementary tool, the SCE (system complexity estimator), ranks a software module based on its complexity and compares its actual architecture with its ideal (simplest) architecture in... View Details
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
for that occupation as a whole. If 30 percent of data scientists are women, then a recruiter searching for data scientists would see 30 percent female candidates in search results. Think like a choice-architect. The principles of choice View Details
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
differences in healthy food purchases, a simple color-coded labeling and choice architecture intervention improved food and beverage choices among employees from all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. Exploring the Duality Between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
keeping the learning dialogue open and flowing. In relation to the drive to defend, work groups must be provided with the means to fend off external attacks. They must be able to press their legitimate claims for resources and support... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
trying to discern who influences the target player and to whom that player defers. For example, when we were advising a client who was eager to sell his company, we counseled him against his instincts to quickly open serious negotiations... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
in a company’s business model. Radical innovation involves a major change in technology, but unlike disruptive innovation it reinforces the existing business model. Architectural innovation is a radical change in technology that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
Understand the roles Do you understand the difference between a front-end developer versus designer versus UX expert? (If you don’t, read this.) Are you fluent enough in your architecture to know what type of engineer should be building... View Details