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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
organization. Read the full abstract. Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity by John D. Macomber and Joseph Allen By the time you reach 80, you will have spent 72 years of your life indoors. Like it or...
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- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
sophisticated safeguards such as an independent ethics committee and a "whistle blower" system for employees concerned with the company's practices. In less than two decades, Sydney IVF grew from just four employees to over 200,...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
variation in the use of in-house rather than independent advertising agencies by U.S. advertisers. While the vast majority of large advertisers employ outside agencies, it comes as a surprise to find that when advertisers of all sizes are...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
failure rate may indicate that the fund is playing it too safe. Stick to your commitments. If a company is seen as a fickle investor, professionals will be wary of joining its venture unit, entrepreneurs will be reluctant to accept its funds, and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
complaint data for insurance agents, we find that agents working exclusively for large branded firms are more likely to be the subject of justified sales complaints, relative to smaller independent experts, despite doing substantially...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
affairs, could create national wealth based on manufacturing. This production would be fueled by an imperialistic British Empire, which through its expansion would provide the needed raw materials. The book proved extremely persuasive at...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
financial services. Its user-friendly interface is designed so that customers only need to fill out one application for all the products it offers. The services that Wingspanbank offers include checking and saving accounts, bill paying,...
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by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
provides one-stop shopping for financial services. Its user-friendly interface is designed so that customers only need to fill out one application for all the products it offers. The services that Wingspanbank offers include checking and...
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Susan Young
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
hospitals and established reliability using interrater comparison. Using a factor analysis, we identified three themes of management competencies: management of unit culture, patient flow, and nursing. We constructed patient-level regressions to assess the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
productivity that counts. Don't work harder, work smarter." With a turnover ratio only a third of that in the United States, Europe has some catching up to do. The fault, however, is not with the continent's level of liquidity,...
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by James E. Aisner
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
HBS Duch worked on independent research with Professor Michael Porter, who had just published his landmark book, The Competitive Advantage of Nations. “It was a great opportunity,” Duch says. “Porter’s work on the capacity of government...
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Deborah Blagg
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
required to disclose any whiff of misbehavior to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), an independent monitoring organization regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. A research team examined those records to...
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- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
firsthand. For the poor to get dignity, it has to start from here.” NLK: The Indian government had seen a change when Prime Minister Modi came in. Four months into his prime minister-ship, on the ramparts of the Red Fort of India on India’s View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
something around that. And so that evening, we cornered Tom Eisenmann at the Sheraton Hotel in Palo Alto and literally sketched out—about the most cliche thing you can do—sketched out on a napkin how Cloudflare would work. And said will you be our advisor for an View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
being denied on-campus housing because of his race. Fitzhugh hoped to go into sales and marketing, but companies at the time had little interest in hiring an African American. While working as an independent print salesman in Washington,...
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- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
strategies. Consider Nestlé, a food company that reformulates its products in response to regional tastes for spices and sweets. In this "local value creation" configuration, the span of control for regional business managers is...
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by Robert Simons
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
the World—With a Single Step by Mark Hurst and Phil Terry (MBA 1998) (Creative Good) Why do companies so often fail to give customers what they want? The authors provide a roadmap for anyone wanting to create better products and services....
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- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50914 April 2016 Harvard Business Review Network Effects Aren't Enough By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Simon Rothman Abstract—In many ways, online marketplaces are the perfect business model. Since they facilitate transactions...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
platform-based products (applications) and users of such products. We show that the unique equilibrium under platform compatibility leads to higher profits than the symmetric equilibrium under incompatibility. Notwithstanding,...
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Martha Lagace