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- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
patterns of what's going on and coming to a conclusion on that. And once I find something that's changed, then I like starting something or changing whatever it is, and then sprinting to create something with it. And so that keeps me perpetually alert because I'm... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
costs, vendor profitability is often driven by the ability to "lock in" customers. Despite a large theoretical literature, there are few empirical studies on the success of vendor pricing and product strategies to achieve lock-in. This paper uses a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Lou Wells taught me what I think of as ‘granular mastery’—that all truth is found in specific detail,” says Bradley, who as a student researched and wrote an article for Harvard Business Review about the overseas expropriation of US assets. After running a regression... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
example, because the data sources and credit histories that firms draw on in the West don't exist in emerging markets. Market research and advertising are in their infancy in developing countries, and it's difficult to find the deep View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
the ongoing transformation of the industry, we use a large database of interviews with participants in executive development programs at HBS—and executives in their sponsoring organizations—to map out the (multidimensional) objective... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
entrepreneurial channel using data from the Longitudinal Business Database of the U.S. Census Bureau. The marginal effect of taxation for growth for a state at the 10th or 25th percentile of corruption is significantly positive; on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
assets; they aren't hamstrung by substantial resource allocation decisions, giving them remarkable flexibility. Now incumbent firms are seeing their competitive position eroded by technology, alternative staffing models, and other forces. Market research companies and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends with greater detail than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
developed a database of the CEOs of the same companies to find out everything I could about them from a demographic and career management standpoint. What part of the country were they from? What was their age, income, and education by... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
SSRN Download Counts? Authors: Benjamin Edelman and Ian Larkin Abstract We use a unique database of every SSRN paper download over the course of seven years, along with detailed resume data on a random sample of SSRN authors, to examine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
of private equity buyouts. We welcome their interest in our work but think their criticisms are off the mark. Some of their claims reflect a misunderstanding of the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) and its underlying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
of hundreds and perhaps thousands of dogs and cats (the numbers remain unclear, as there is no centralized database of such information). While the situation was uncertain, there was some concern that a production run of SmartPak’s... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
part of your goal was to be able to mix and match some of the databases of items for sale, which you could do on a hosted version but couldn't do if they were off in disparate places. Randall: Right. For instance, right now we run... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
examining corporate and nonprofit growth for close to 1,000 communities over the period from 1987 to 2002. In addition to the interviews for this study, we have also created a database that enables us to understand the statistical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
product is being put together, it has been possible for manufacturers to leave those identification markers in the product. So later on when the same customer calls with an inquiry or a complaint, it is now so easy to go back to the View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
models, universal e-mail, early versions of groupware, Internet- based group research resources, and Web-like applications that combined textual and numerical databases with multimedia. The results enriched and challenged traditional HBS... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
It looks better to be using a car than a taxi.” From Baker Library: Thinking of entering a new market? Use the Doing Business and Going Global databases on eBaker to better understand business regulations and environments in different... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
and support it by three bullet points by early morning on class day. Initially, students submitted their responses via a text-based VAX system. Bhide, along with Professor Howard H. Stevenson, who also taught the class, then upgraded the material to a View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
Shaped American Business Leadership (Harvard Business Press, 2006), with Mayo and Laura Singleton (MBA ‘88), is a companion to In Their Time. Both are based on the Great American Business Leaders database created by Nohria and Mayo for... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
Markets oral history database at the Harvard Business School to examine business leaders’ perceptions of political risk over time between the 1970s and the present day, employing NVivo coding of the dataset to move beyond simple... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman