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- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
Departments. "The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft," says Light. "So... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
nonlinear pricing schedule refers to any pricing structure where the total charges payable by customers are not proportional to the quantity of their consumed services. We begin the chapter with a discussion of the broad applicability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
failure tolerance has an equilibrium price—in terms of an investor's required share of equity—that increases in the level of radical innovation. Financiers with investment strategies that tolerate early failure will endogenously choose to... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
outlet store use. Consumers who shop at outlet stores also do not differ significantly from those who shop at regular stores in terms of income. I use a structural demand model to show that consumers are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
hierarchical organizing and identifies three categories of research: post-bureaucratic organizations, humanistic management, and organizational democracy. Despite this extensive prior work, scholarly understanding of radical decentralization remains limited. Using the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
problem lies not with the people who serve on boards, but rather the structure of boards themselves, argue Harvard Business School professor Jay Lorsch and consultant Colin B. Carter. In Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 10 Jun 2025 Print View View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View # A B C D E F G I L M N O P R S T U V W # Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits 3... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
http://hbr.org/2014/01/the-new-patterns-of-innovation/ar/1 January 2014 Journal of Labor Economics Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
AIR AND SPACE: GLF participants enjoyed cocktails and dinner at the popular Washington museum. PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANUTA OTFINOWSKI There has never been a time when there have been as many challenges facing this country as there are now, nor a time when we have as many of... View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
rewards) as these uncertain transition parameters jointly vary within a given uncertainty set. We show that these problems are computationally tractable if the uncertainty set has a row-wise structure. Conversely, we prove that the row-wise View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
exercise. Purchase this exercise: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608072 Structuring Real Estate Deals: An Investor's Perspective Harvard Business School Note 208-066 Addresses the following questions: What... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
costs to firms of changing strategy. The costs associated with strategy modifications, which we term “repositioning costs,” are particularly relevant to competitive interactions involving major changes to business strategies.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
identity and reputation, acting as a “federated republic.” Research limitations/implications—The new and combined application of the Heritage Quotient framework and the Corporate Brand Identity Matrix in the Heritage Brand Identity Process (HBIP) offers a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
by the interaction of partner firms that does not necessarily accrue to any of them. The extent of "ambivalent value" is unclear, but its persistence, despite changing structural market features, promises to help sustain... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
planet." "There are certain images that come up with five-star service that I just don't like: telephones, swimming pools, valet service," Evanson says from his 500-acre island. "It's a way of differentiating our product, which is unique." "Product" seems too workaday... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
job machine started sputtering around 2000. There's something structural here, because it started before the recent downturn. Moreover, we and others discovered that virtually all the net new jobs created over the last decade were in... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
study of business and the global poor. In recent years, there has been ample evidence, both in the literature and in capital markets, of the ability of leading microfinance institutions, particularly in Latin America and Asia, to generate superior economic returns. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
scientific collaborators. We generated exogenous variation in search costs for pairs of potential collaborators by randomly assigning individuals to 90-minute structured information-sharing sessions as part of a grant funding opportunity.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
the resource-based view of the firm, we examine how teams can develop a knowledge-integration capability to dynamically integrate members' resources into higher performance. We distinguish among three sets of resources: relational, experiential, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
systems, arts groups — typically have access to other resources.” The Bridgespan Group is experiencing the effects of the explosive growth in the nonprofit world. “There is tremendous demand for our services based on the dramatic expansion of the nonprofit sector both... View Details