Knowledge Use and Leverage - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

the company, tap into management skills, leverage existing technologies, and use existing compensation and HR functions. But while you are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog

effective strategies for technology-intensive businesses. What are effective strategies for winning in markets with network effects? How can technology be leveraged to build multisided platforms? How can firms create View Details

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

and make decisions based on assumptions about the future. The problem: Most of these prophecies about what is to come are basically straight-line extrapolations of a few weeks of data or sermons about what that prophet believes should... View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

08 Feb 2023
Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

how teams facilitate collaboration will reveal opportunities to build stronger teams through active inclusion. Unlike passive inclusion, which is basically just being polite, active inclusion calls for using specific actions, like... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore

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Securitization process and credit rating agencies

What resources are available on the securitization process, credit rating agencies and European covered bonds? Databases Bloomberg - Use Mortgages function to get information on various forms of... View Details

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Dissertation: "Essays in International Non-market Strategy and the Political Economy of Environmental Regulation"

My dissertation is part of a research agenda intended to advance our understanding of the interaction between companies and non-market actors (e.g. regulators) in an international context. The empirical setting of my analysis is the European Union Emissions Trading... View Details

July 2024
Case

Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding

By: Boris Groysberg and Tom Quinn

This case traces the history and growth of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. From its development in 1993 by tiny studio Wizards of the Coast, to Wizards’ acquisition by toy giant Hasbro in 1999, to its evolution into a billion-dollar brand in 2023,... View Details

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07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

pandemic. Consumers consider the brands they use to be trusted partners and look to them for information about the crisis and how it is affecting their companies, employees,... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

25 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas, and Stefanie Stantcheva Abstract—This paper studies the effect of corporate and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

immediate environment. We are in it together, and none of us forever. This knowledge gives you bulletproof criteria to assess who deserves to be entrusted with power: not those... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

this effect drives advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Aug 2022
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

need multiple eyes and ears on the ground when you’re in a regulatory capacity,” says Jones. “Often, the people who are going to be most knowledgeable are the people who are living it day to day. We try to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

13 Feb 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

provide firms with an opportunity to leverage their know-how and reputation across countries to create value. However, it remains challenging for them to actually capture that value View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2022
News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

path, clearly illustrating how the traditional power dynamic has inverted and why it matters for business survival. Bines offers six proven models you can use to cultivate and... View Details

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

Benefit Early- and Mid-Career Professionals Aspiring Entrepreneurs Nonprofit Leaders Gain credibility to be more impactful at work and navigate organizational politics. "HBS Online doesn't teach you View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

students, relocated persons, immigrants, or refugees—will find useful advice for landing a job in the United States this book. Readers will learn the different stages of the search process and how to prepare... View Details

17 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

in tastes. Our framework allows us to characterize matching equilibrium in a flexible way that includes as special cases the classic fully- and non-transferable utility models, collective models, View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

published in American Sociological Review in April, Zhang measured culture, manager quality, and work-life balance based on almost 933,000 employee reviews of 8,800 companies on the career website Indeed.com. The site, which also provides... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

February 2015 (Revised June 2016)
Case

AltSchool: School Reimagined

By: John J-H Kim, Kyla Wilkes and Christine S. An

Max Ventilla and his team launches in 2013 AltSchool, a new network of tech-savvy independent K-8 "micro-schools." AltSchool is born out of Ventilla's frustration with the education options available for his young daughter. During his search, Ventilla comes to the... View Details