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- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
regulation by offshoring or by abandoning the market; or ignoring the regulation by continuing with entrenched business practices. The path a profit-maximizing firm will choose depends, in part, on the expected cost of non-compliance, which is a View Details
Keywords: 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... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
in bringing their products to market, yet we know very little about the kinds of strategies they can employ to influence regulatory actor decision making. In this paper, we highlight a firm's strategic use of symbolic signaling in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
psychological mechanism whereby price format determines how many product attributes are actively processed at the time of valuation. Three studies support the hypothesis that price partitioning acts as an incentive to process multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
production and "customization" of materials. The engineering or applied science-based culture of many German firms kept power and authority closer to the factory or subsidiaries. Craft production... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
externalities, two traditionally under-emphasized forces, exert consistently strong effects. Within each macro network, there is a large heterogeneity across subsidiaries. Subsidiaries with greater size and higher productivity attract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
retired." This led Illysa to comment, "One more reason we must choose not only our careers but our work places carefully: who do we want to become?" Heidi Olson wondered "if the change in hormones when gaining power is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
1990s and 2000s magnified these challenges, as illustrated by the deployment of the descendent of the NCSA HTTPd server, otherwise known as Apache. This study asks whether this experience could produce measurement issues in standard View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
categorization effect persisted regardless of whether the rewards were presented using a gain or loss frame. Using both moderation and mediation analyses, we found that categorizing rewards had these positive effects on motivation by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
the customer knowledge gained from conducting market research at the front end of NPD affects which of these opportunities the firm should pursue. Pitfalls in analyzing the customer data are described, along with guidelines on how to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
Working PapersProduct Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges Are the Benefits Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard Abstract The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
quickly gained a 95% share of the tablet computer market and a big share of the public mind. But the iPad represented more than just an extremely successful product launch. It also signified important... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
assets and improve its profitability. However, Bhattacharya knows that these gains will be fleeting without the development of a trained workforce who can address 21st century industry problems with speed and creativity. This requires... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
disruptive innovation has gained considerable currency among practitioners despite widespread misunderstanding of its core principles. Similarly, foundational research on disruption has elicited frequent citation and vibrant debate in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
the core for granted and expect nothing more than slow expansion here as you pursue "real" growth elsewhere, but successful firms focus on gaining share "every quarter and reinvigorating the core at all times," George... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
to all personal care products sold online by the five firms implies that customers spent an additional $300 million annually as a result of pricing algorithms, out of a total of about $6 billion in e-commerce revenue for the category.... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
skilled workers, and getting distribution for Boumi products in major markets such as Europe and the United States. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112029-PDF-ENG Khosla Ventures: Biofuels View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Working PapersGray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing (revised) Authors:Romana Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels, for instance when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
they spent enough time understanding what it took to make sure that the specific plans—which products to make in which kind of facility, located where, using which technologies, selling to which customers—were lined up with more abstract... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace