Filter Results:
(1,520)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,520)
- People (2)
- News (350)
- Research (939)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (363)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,520)
- People (2)
- News (350)
- Research (939)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (363)
- 24 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
was the “death of distance,” a concept popularized in 1997 by Frances Cairncross’s book of the same title. A recent essay in the The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography challenges that notion, or at least deepens the argument. While... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
- 04 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship
Justin Ernest (MBA 2019) had interned at Sidewalk Labs. Stan reached out to Justin for coffee and conversation. “He said the culture was great,” Stan says. “Justin had a great experience there working on deals to invest in other urban... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
positivity rates that could inform safe operations. As the testing program wound down in late 2022, McKnight was focused on a bigger project: leveraging Ginkgo’s biotech knowledge to create a pandemic-free world. “Our alerting mechanism... View Details
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling
in installments is an ancient one. In 1641, when the Pilgrims consolidated the “heavy burthens” they owed London creditors, they arranged to pay their debts in four annual “estallments.” 18 But it was mechanization and the mass production... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
conventional logic of diminishing marginal social welfare. Moreover, these two views are linked: respondents who more strongly resist equalization are more likely to prefer the classical benefit-based principle. Though the Amazon View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Research & Applications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
& Regions New tools and collaborative mechanisms can boost competitiveness, entrepreneurship, and new business growth at the microeconomic level. Inner Cities Revitalizing... View Details
- 04 Nov 2009
- What Do You Think?
What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?
Recently a number of questions have been raised about capitalism and how it serves us, particularly in boom and bust cycles. But perhaps a bigger debate has arisen about the role of government in helping capitalism to serve us better in times of economic stress. That's... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers
after a year and a half, companies have still only raised prices by around 2 percent, despite tariffs rising as high as 20 or 25 percent. “There are some mechanisms that retailers seem to be using to avoid increasing prices,” Cavallo... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
Business Development at SunPower. Chrissy Kahn (MBA 2023, Section J), Summer Internship: Strategy Intern at Montauk Seaweed Supply Company Montauk Seaweed Supply Company is a start-up working to transform New England-area farmed seaweed... View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective action. We argue that several of these intuitive theoretical arguments rely on special additional assumptions that are often not made clear. We then review... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
executives during the initial stages of implementing the new strategy. Our analysis demonstrates that this firm's balanced scorecard contained useful and timely information for distinguishing between these alternatives. These results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
assumptions, difficult choices, and, ultimately, action plans. You and they must be able to give clear, consistent answers to the seven questions if you want to be sure that your strategy is firmly on track. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
mechanical population, together with a steady remodeling of social and political habits, ideas, and institutions to fit the new scale and suit the new conditions.” 37 The rise... View Details
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
Microfinance—essentially small loans that help impoverished individuals create jobs, small businesses, and stronger communities—may offer a window on new methods for widening access to healthcare for the poor. Led by Harvard Business... View Details
- Web
Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni
(MBA 2004) explains how you can integrate entrepreneurship into your career. Pitching to Venture Capitalists? Learn From an Expert Are you pitching--or getting ready to pitch--a new business idea? Sounds easy, but it is complicated and... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
the mechanism for providing worker insurance developed stronger venture capital markets over 1990-2008, especially in high volatility sectors. In this context, policy mechanisms are more important than the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
wise or lucky. His blend of new statistical methods and old common-sense reasoning helped him profit as the forecasting industry first developed. Irving Fisher, Economic Forecasting, and the Myth of the Business Cycle Author:Walter A.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
knowledge of a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules. An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
identities can shape team members' side conversations in ways that create shared interests and information among those with similar identities, even before the team begins its formal meetings. Originality/value-By identifying new routes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Globalization - Faculty & Research
of that firm's affiliate activity in their native countries. Ethnic innovators also appear to facilitate the disintegration of innovative activity across borders and to allow U.S. multinationals to form new affiliates abroad without the... View Details