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- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
out how to get into a clinical trial to try an experimental drug. For their part, physicians are often befuddled by difficult cases that don't respond to traditional therapies. And pharmaceutical companies, at the same time, are anxious to find subjects for clinical... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
Working PapersCorporate Social Entrepreneurship Authors:James Austin and Ezequiel Reficco Abstract Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced and powerful forms of Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
risks—a process that can release more equity capacity. Finally, Merton argues, the job of managing the company's derivatives portfolio should not be delegated to in-house financial experts. The strategic importance of how a company... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Lending Outcomes By: Campbell, Dennis, Maria Loumioti, and Regina Wittenberg Moerman Abstract—We explore how cognitive constraints can impede the effective processing and interpretation of less salient, non-quantitative (soft) information... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
must work and interact with other components. This standardization process is under tremendous stress. Many disputes roiling courts and administrative bodies around the world-such as those involving Apple, Google, Microsoft, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
ZIP codes. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53271 Harvard Business School Case 718-419 Hilti (A): Fleet Management? This case explores the strategic decision-making process of premium power tools... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27
Rich with examples and thoroughly researched, Rethinking the MBA reveals why and how business schools must define a better pathway for the future. Order this book:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
talent will be the decisive stroke for top leaders. In Hill's essay on "Leadership as Collective Genius" in Management 21C, she spells out what the creative process entails at the collective level, as well as ways that several company... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
are fundamental to biotech's success.—Gail Maderis Time—a precious asset in any industry—has special value in biotech, particularly since the multiphase FDA approval process can add years to a drug's development. "My biggest source... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
individuals' cognitive limitations in explaining unethical behavior, we focus on the socio-psychological processes that function as triggers of moral neglect, moral justification and immoral action, and their impact on moral behavior. In... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
favor posted prices; our estimates suggest the latter is more important for explaining the shift away from auctions. We provide supporting evidence from a survey of eBay sellers and discuss why sellers might use a mix of auctions and posted prices in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18
environmentally beneficial functions: it diverts waste from landfill and it produces renewable energy. At the same time, the waste-to-energy firm serves and collects revenue from two types of customers: waste generators who pay for waste disposal service and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
the United States, the time, cost, and complications of patent suits provide openings for opportunistic assertions of infringement. This article proposes a way to address information problems that facilitate opportunistic assertion: an automatic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
three business units, would be affected by a business model change for its largest product that required a change in the timing of revenue recognition. Corporate Learning was in the process of revamping its flagship product, Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
became clear that the limitations of our conceptualizations of the familiarity-attraction link, as well as the limitations of prior research, were masking a set of higher order principles capable of integrating these diverse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
Internet-based companies like Google record every click and keystroke of every customer, analyzing the data to continuously improve their products and marketing. Customers are courted and supply chains are managed via websites, social media, and email; marketing,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the behavioral processes associated with successful cross-functional and cross-firm alignment in supply/demand planning. We model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
of knowledge, but in practice that doesn't happen much at all. Some scientists, however, are pushing back and many say they need to rethink how they conduct science. Q: What are the risks of opening problems to outsiders? A: For firms, the first View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3
inventive activity in the economy. Book: http://www.nber.org/books/lern11-1 Collaborating Across Cultures: Cultural Metacognition and Affect-Based Trust in Creative Collaboration Authors:Roy Y.J. Chua, Michael W. Morris, and Shira Mor Publication:Organizational... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
These discussions have focused on issues of increasing impact and scale, but often with no clear distinction between the two terms. In order to provide clarity, we offer a framework that distinguishes between the two and use that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne