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- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
little effect on the restaurant or movie industry. Their contentment left society slightly better off. It is generally wonderful when parties are able to trade off interests to create value. In fact, one of... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
make it into the next product line. BD: Yes, I think the ways in which they grow in smaller companies is more dynamic and more externally oriented, less internally dependent, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- July 2013
- Technical Note
Competition Simulator Exercise: Questions
In the Competition Simulator Exercise, students explore through trial and error some important economic foundations of competitive strategy and managerial economics. In particular, the simulator lets students explore horizontal differentiation with and without price... View Details
Keywords: Economics Of Strategy; Economics Of Competition; Competition; Economics; Game Theory; Competitive Strategy; Marketing Strategy
Van den Steen, Eric. "Competition Simulator Exercise: Questions." Harvard Business School Technical Note 714-406, July 2013.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Who Should Be Running Ahead? The Roles of Two Types of Entrepreneurship in China's Contemporary Economy
By: Ying Zhang and André van Stel
One of the most important transitions of China from a centrally planned economy to a market-based economy was the emergence of entrepreneurship in two different forms of private enterprise, viz. getihu and siyingqiye. Using a unique database of 31 Chinese regions over... View Details
Zhang, Ying, and André van Stel. "Who Should Be Running Ahead? The Roles of Two Types of Entrepreneurship in China's Contemporary Economy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-086, February 2016.
- August 2020
- Article
Financial Market Risk Perceptions and the Macroeconomy
By: Carolin E. Pflueger, Emil Siriwardane and Adi Sunderam
We propose a novel measure of risk perceptions: the price of volatile stocks (PVS), defined as the book-to-market ratio of low-volatility stocks minus the book-to-market ratio of high-volatility stocks. PVS is high when perceived risk directly measured from surveys and... View Details
Keywords: Risk-centric Business Cycles; Cross-section Of Equities; Real Risk-free Rate; Real Investment; Financial Markets; Risk and Uncertainty; Perception; Investment
Pflueger, Carolin E., Emil Siriwardane, and Adi Sunderam. "Financial Market Risk Perceptions and the Macroeconomy." Quarterly Journal of Economics 135, no. 3 (August 2020).
- 2006
- Working Paper
On the Origin of Shared Beliefs (and Corporate Culture)
This paper shows why members of an organization often share similar beliefs. I argue that there are two mechanisms. First, when performance depends on making correct decisions, people prefer to work with others who share their beliefs and assumptions, since such... View Details
Van den Steen, Eric J. "On the Origin of Shared Beliefs (and Corporate Culture)." Sloan School of Management Working Paper, No. 4553-05, January 2006. (Available at SSRN.)
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
the Everest case provides a framework for understanding, diagnosing, and preventing serious failures in many types of organizations. However, it also has important implications... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
infertile women to conceive. Excess fertilized eggs are routinely discarded by clinics at the conclusion of the in vitro process. Opponents say such practices are immoral... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 2018
- Book
New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy
By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert
This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end... View Details
Fredona, Robert and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- Web
Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
porcelain. The British found they could address the growing trade deficit through opium from Bengal, India, where they owned plantations. Opium became more plentiful, and uses View Details
- 2006
- Article
Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Methods in the Study of Entrepreneurship
By: Rohit Daniel Wadhwani and Geoffrey Jones
This paper outlines the case for why and how historical methods are important to the study of entrepreneurship. We show that research in entrepreneurship has displayed declining attention to historical context since the field first emerged in the 1940s. We discuss why... View Details
Wadhwani, Rohit Daniel, and Geoffrey Jones. "Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Methods in the Study of Entrepreneurship." Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2006).
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
John Macomber (@cleantechcities) is a senior lecturer of business administration in the Finance Unit Gary P. Pisano: In-person meetings will be less important All... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
revitalizing rural communities, and how to become a "Boomtown." During his research and travels, Schultz realized the importance of creating new entrepreneurs as a way to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
prize is a set of steak knives, and third prize is you’re fired. In these markets, the most important thing is to be first, to win that Cadillac. If you’re not that leader,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Feb 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Dynamic Advertising Effect of Collegiate Athletics
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
competitor's action as both a threat and an opportunity. Here are organizational and process changes that can help meet the challenge.It's one thing to recognize the importance... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 04 Jan 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
The Twofold Effect of Customer Retention in Freemium Settings
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
these computationally predictive therapeutics against those cells. So, remember, traditionally we test in mice, we test in dogs, we test in chimps, we test in humans. The important caveat is that mice, dogs,... View Details
- 14 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition
buy results and experiences, not services or products. That’s why IKEA’s leaders focus on the few things that produce results and experiences for the right customers. This requires another View Details
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
experience at work. Second, these feelings powerfully affect people's day-to-day performance. And third, those feelings, which are so important for performance, are powerfully influenced by particular daily events. My guess is that a lot... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile