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- 28 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research, February 28
internal factors that constrain or enable these responses, and examine how the firms’ responses affect their performance. Our empirical context is the U.S. newspaper industry, which has experienced increased competition following the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27
While some countries enjoy the opportunity to serve on this powerful body, most countries rarely, if ever, get that chance. This gives rise to the question: does board membership lead to higher funding from the World Bank's two main... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
Medical School professor, surgeon, and New Yorker staff writer Atul Gawande; and HBS professor Raffaella Sadun, who has led an international research project on the role of management in acute care hospitals and medical schools. David... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’
book excerpt The Importance Of Being Innovative From Chapter 4, Can China Lead: Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth By Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan One can surely doubt that creativity can be mandated or... View Details
- 10 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Coming World Oil Crisis
McAdam, Chief Executive Officer, Aquamarine Power LimitedMatthew Simmons, Chairman, Simmons & Company International The panelists offered sobering perspectives on the world's dwindling oil resources,... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008
copyright, as well as the application of these rules to software, video, recordings, and Internet service providers. Purchase this note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309052 Corporate View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
leaves a set of information-rich trades by "opportunistic" insiders that contain all the predictive power in the insider trading universe. A portfolio strategy that focuses solely on opportunistic traders yields value-weighted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
honor achievements for the benefit of mankind. Longevity: The prizes have been awarded since 1901. Urde and Greyser note that the international prizes made a big impression from the beginning because they were established during a time of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
Participants within a business market assume one or more of four primary roles to carry out these value-creating activities: Suppliers create component products or provide services, raw materials or talent. Producers design and build products, services, and, most... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care—including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger—believe that shifting control of health-care purchasing decisions... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
when treating the opponent’s campaign plan as given. Our formulation accounts for both the time cost of traveling between districts and the time expended while campaigning within districts. We describe a polynomial-time algorithm that computes a (2 + )-approximation to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
Double-digit long-term growth might justify bragging rights for any country. But a turbocharged GDP comes at a price, says Eric D. Werker, an associate professor in the Business, Government and International Economy unit at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20
Buildings By: Herron, J., Amy C. Edmondson, and Robert G. Eccles, Jr. Abstract—Buildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energy is used for heating, cooling, lighting, and powering machines and devices... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Developing the Global Leader
insatiable need to learn about other cultures." A knack for cross-boundary partnering. "You need to feel comfortable engaging a team in India and giving them as much power as a team in Germany or the United States. There's a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
establishments in sparse regions, but both groups improve similarly in dense regions, suggesting that density mitigates the power of large establishments to resist institutional pressures. Finally, privately held firms' establishments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
The computer age began some six decades ago with general-purpose machines with Star Wars-like names such as ENIAC and EDVAC. They were powered by vacuum tubes, big enough to fill an entire room, and developed by mathematicians under the... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
Roundtable, 200 powerful CEOs said corporations should widen their missions beyond just maximizing profits for shareholders. These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social ProblemsUsing business to create social change... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
aid-distortions that steer aid away from achieving economic development in the recipient country. As it turns out, none of these solutions can shield foreign aid from the heavy hand of politics. Developing countries heavily influenced by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
as in two-sided assignment problems, the payoffs of a matching can be divided between the agents. We take a similar approach to one-sided assignment problems as Sasaki (1995) for two-sided assignment problems, and we analyze various desirable properties of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace