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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Motors John B. Rogers, Jr., MBA 2007 Jeffrey R. Jones, MBA 2007 Local Motors will design, manufacture, and bring to market innovative, lightweight, efficient cars. These cars will revolutionize not only automobiles, but also the very... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
address pollution. IVL developed an important role as knowledge producer and as an intermediary of environmental knowledge between the late 1960s and the 1980s. The proactive response of Swedish big business is shown to have been based on a belief that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009
effects of v4 scarcity, while obtaining price discovery and allocative efficiency benefits of market transactions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-091.pdf Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
Millennium. "With the whole genome known, the process of drug discovery in the future will involve comprehensively identifying all molecular interactions for a drug." Genetic information should be public, but companies need to protect their View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
interest rates, money funds change their product offerings by investing in riskier asset classes, are more likely to exit the market, and reduce the fees they charge their investors. The consequence of fund closures resulting from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk William K.L. Fung (MBA 1972): E-Commerce and View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
long-term engagement and explore the impact of giving self-service consumers the option to interact with a person. Participants engaged in an online investing simulation who are made to feel anxious due to market downturns are less... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
depth against scope of MSP functions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-115.pdf Proprietary vs. Open Two-Sided Platforms and Social Efficiency Author:Andrei Hagiu Abstract This paper identifies a fundamental economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
Toffel Periodical:Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and capabilities influence billions of dollars of "socially responsible" investments as well... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
as its discount prices and large selection of merchandise. As Sprint and Walgreens have shown, Porter notes, companies that invest in the inner city and entrepreneurs who start businesses there are well positioned to take advantage of a... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007
2006. Examines the possible impact that public litigation will have on the two firms. The impact of the litigation will be different for each firm because they are at dissimilar development stages and plan to employ distinct investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010
more likely to invest in skill, but caste affinity to the politician's party base also helps secure important positions. Global Shinjidai no Kachi Souzou (Value Creation during a Global Era) Author:Hirotaka Takeuchi Publication:In Keiei... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
advantage and market outcomes hence could be more efficient with stronger indirect network effects. We empirically examine the competition between the Xbox and PlayStation 2 consoles. We find that Xbox has a small quality advantage over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
the possibility of threatening the life of Black Americans far too frequently and has already led to the death of too many Black men and women. How truly different is the racism that inadvertently avoids investing in Black founders, from... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
raises aggregate productivity through two channels: (1) trust facilitates reallocation between firms by allowing more efficient firms to grow as CEOs can decentralize more decisions and (2) trust complements the adoption of new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
efficiency engineers — how would we spend our leisure? The problem has bothered social scientists/statesmen, ministers, newspaper editors, and reformers, even though we are not yet even in sight of Utopia. It is supposed, at least by... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
production. Executives of European and Russian energy companies present their views. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715006-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-035 MasterCard: Driving Financial Inclusion MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
Silicon Valley is especially intense. I think as a result, a lot of companies in Silicon Valley have really started to invest in understanding what it takes to be a good manager. When I first moved here, somebody said to me, "Management... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
"I tend to think that small and focused is the name of the game," agrees Matthew R. Simmons (MBA '67), president and chairman of Simmons & Company International. Established in 1974 as a specialized investment bank to the oil service... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
environment, workplace safety, and community involvement, most firms do not provide this information. Second, it is not economically efficient for shareholders with a small stake in a number of companies to ferret out sufficient... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler