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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Blinded by Experience: Prior Experience, Negative News and Belief Updating
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
histories spanning generations, we combine induction and deduction to propose reputation as a meta-resource that allows firms to activate their conventional resources. We conceptualize reputation as consisting of prominence, perceived quality, and resilience and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
minutes at minimal cost with no branding or design skills required. As it sets out to raise its Series B, the founders make some critical changes to their business model, moving to a subscription model and adding additional products and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets
Hidden Business History Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and... View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
Direct employment in the US Internet ecosystem has doubled in those four years, with 1 million new jobs added to the million that already existed in 2007, according to a recent study commissioned by the Interactive Advertising Bureau,... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
geographic friction influence FDI and present the key empirical studies and findings. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52121 January–February 2017 Harvard Business Review Africa's New Generation of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2009
- Article
A Detailed Analysis of the Reduction Mammaplasty Learning Curve: A Statistical Process Model for Approaching Surgical Performance Improvement
By: Matthew Carty MD, Rodney Chan, Robert S. Huckman, Daniel C. Snow and Dennis Orgill
Background: The increased focus on quality and efficiency improvement within academic surgery has met with variable success among plastic surgeons. Traditional surgical performance metrics, such as morbidity and mortality, are insufficient to improve the... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Outcome or Result; Performance Efficiency; Performance Improvement
Carty, Matthew, MD, Rodney Chan, Robert S. Huckman, Daniel C. Snow, and Dennis Orgill. "A Detailed Analysis of the Reduction Mammaplasty Learning Curve: A Statistical Process Model for Approaching Surgical Performance Improvement." Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 124, no. 3 (September 2009): 706–714.
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Business Track | New Venture Competition
Business Track Presented by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, this track is for new ventures whose economic returns drive substantial market impact. How to Register & Key Dates Eligibility $ 75,000 Grand... View Details
Customers As Innovators: A New Way to Create Value
Product R&D at many companies is a major bottleneck. The difficulty is that fully understanding the needs of just a single customer can be an inexact and costly process--to say nothing of the needs of all customers or even groups of them. In the course of... View Details
- February 1969
- Article
Test of a Product Cycle Model of International Trade: U.S. Exports of Consumer Durables
By: Louis T Wells Jr
Wells, Louis T., Jr. "Test of a Product Cycle Model of International Trade: U.S. Exports of Consumer Durables." Quarterly Journal of Economics 83, no. 1 (February 1969): 152–62. (Also reprinted in Wells, The Product Life Cycle and International Trade.)
- 2007
- Working Paper
The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks
By: Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner and Alvin E. Roth
In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the beginning of the second year of law school for positions commencing approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast,... View Details
- 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
Abstract—Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
years at HBS on nonprofit growth and multisite nonprofits. Though networks are not new in practice, and in fact are quite common in both the nonprofit and commercial sectors, she said, the question of how to go about creating these... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
students did just that when they traveled to New Orleans with the HBS Hurricane Relief Trek. Some students worked with Mayor Ray Nagin’s Bring New Orleans Back Commission, brainstorming View Details
- December 2003 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
Blockbuster Inc. & Technological Substitution (B): Confronting New Digital Formats
Investigates how the rise of digital video formats threatens to make videocassette technology obsolete; how this technological substitution might alter the economics and structure of the video rental and retail industries; and how Blockbuster Inc., the industry leader,... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Decisions; Technological Innovation; Competition; Change Management; Service Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
Coughlan, Peter J., and Jenny Illes. "Blockbuster Inc. & Technological Substitution (B): Confronting New Digital Formats." Harvard Business School Case 704-407, December 2003. (Revised April 2004.)
- 15 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
One Month into the New MS/MBA Biotech
Harvard’s new MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences joint degree program confers an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Master of Science from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School in the Harvard Department... View Details
- 2023
- Book
How the Harvard Business School Changed the Way We View Organizations
By: Jay W. Lorsch
The story of the field of organizational behavior (which overlaps considerably with the origin story of Harvard Business School) and how it created the “medical model” of systems thinking—anchored in the practices of listening, observing, testing, and only then... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Systems Thinking; Medical Model; Organizations; Behavior; System; History
Lorsch, Jay W. How the Harvard Business School Changed the Way We View Organizations. Business Expert Press, 2023.
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Professors Recognized with New Chair Appointments
in 2001 after teaching at the University of Michigan Business School. His research investigates the structured finance market and how investor reliance on rating agencies and unsound pricing models led to the market’s rise and collapse.... View Details
- February 2023 (Revised February 2025)
- Case
Doing Business in New Delhi, India
By: Vikram S Gandhi and Radhika Kak
The case uses the example of Tata Motors to discuss the opportunities and challenges of doing business in India. View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economy; Macroeconomics; Business History; India
Gandhi, Vikram S., and Radhika Kak. "Doing Business in New Delhi, India." Harvard Business School Case 323-083, February 2023. (Revised February 2025.)