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- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
to decide how to best market their innovation. The iconic status of existing electric guitars, and the lack of any recent radical innovations in the category, pose challenges in securing consumer adoption. If the company goes it alone, it... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
Strive For Honesty Alongside Low Risk In most of the companies we've studied, managers discussed innovation-related problems with the few people they trusted but acted on their findings in more public... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
The problems and challenges this creates, just from a business point of view. Lots of the organizational and institutional arrangements we have for doing business don't work very well if you start to graft them onto a context like biotech. They're a mismatch. View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
asset accumulators of the future” A new breed of financial technology companies, known collectively as fintech, has taken advantage of these traits to disrupt an unexpected industry: personal investing. Just as manufacturing companies... View Details
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
Limits To Leadership Being the chief executive of any company is a demanding job. Carrying out the responsibilities of a CEO in a professional service firm is exceptionally challenging because the position lacks the inherent power and... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
implemented pretty quickly by command—acquisitions, divestitures, real estate purchases, layoffs. Long marches take time and the involvement of many people who must produce new elements and coordinate their... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
potential of new ideas could be inimical to operating a real business. All fall, the news had been sobering, as the dot-com bubble deflated, paring billions—ultimately trillions—of dollars of stock-market value from the "idea"... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
encouraging the growth of good companies that can replace imperial excess with values-based capitalism; (4) restoring respect for government by ending decades of contempt for the public sector and ensuring... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
get paid too much compared to everyone else. A: Yes, but that doesn't get us anywhere, and it's not completely valid anyway. They sure get paid a lot, don't get me wrong. But they're not the only ones. Real View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
Even as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang welcomed a "war on air pollution" in China's eastern cities, which involves utilizing synthetic natural gas, this comes at the price of huge amounts of coal-fired energy and huge increases in China's contribution to global CO2... View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
However, most of these investors also trade in public securities. This leads to a controversial question: do institutional investors use private information received in the loan market to trade in public... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
historical or ongoing regulatory investigations in several other markets with price coherence: travel booking sites, hotel booking sites, insurance brokerages, insurance comparison services, online retail marketplaces, search engine advertising, View Details
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
companies and entrepreneurs in emerging markets. "With governmental and nonprofit ventures, it's generally harder to see which initiatives work and which are ineffective at achieving their goals. That is what drives me to do this... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
competitors could only offer three. However, LEGO offers a 30-35 percent margin to retailers, compared to competing brands offering 40-50 percent margins. What if local retailers wanted the higher margins and could care less about turnover? Outsourcing risks. With... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
of entrepreneurs supported. Paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/121212-Female1_Spatial.pdf For Mobile Devices, Think Apps, Not Ads Authors:Gupta, Sunil Publication:Harvard Business Review Abstract Many companies envision mobile ads... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
University's most influential professors and the author of numerous books and publications including On Competition (HBSP 1998) and co-author of Can Japan Compete? (Perseus Press, 2000), told the audience that it's time to look at inner... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
rural Africa. A small company in Tanzania seems to fit the bill, but it faces health-safety issues with the potential to spread E. coli throughout the region. Another problem: It's not clear whether the local agency flagging the potential... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
Publication:Journal of Public Economics Abstract We examine a prominent justification for capital income taxation: goods preferred by those with high ability ought to be taxed. In an environment where commodity taxes are allowed to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
This case explores the opportunity to purchase the condominium management business of a distressed real estate developer by Advantage Partners, a leading Japanese private equity firm. The case explores... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
Publications August 2013 hfm (Healthcare Financial Management) Improving Value with TDABC By: Kaplan, Robert S. Abstract—The article discusses the benefits of time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) combined with outcomes measurement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne