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  • December 1988
  • Article

Strategic Responses to Automobile Emissions Control: A Game-Theoretic Analysis

By: Dennis Yao
This paper examines the dynamics of standard-setting regulation under technological uncertainty and asymmetric information about technological capability. A two-period model which allows fully strategic action is developed and applied to the regulation of automobile... View Details
Keywords: Transportation; Pollutants; Standards; Governance Controls; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Mathematical Methods
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  • 08 May 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Mara Lederman, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management

    Maren Hoff

    Maren Hoff is an Assistant Professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School.

    Professor Hoff studies how cultural change shapes consumer behavior and marketplace trends. Her research examines how and why tastes, styles, and products change in... View Details

    • 17 Dec 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

    The evidence has long shown that women are discriminated against in the workplace. Now it appears that they are even punished more harshly than men when they are in the wrong. A new research paper reveals that when women at Wells Fargo... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • 12 Sep 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

    suggests new research based on an international competition to design a NASA robot. "When experts have a been-there-done-that mindset, potential breakthroughs may hit the discard pile before companies can evaluate them in full." Harvard... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace
    • 24 Oct 2013
    • News

    When 3+1 is more than 4

    • 12 Apr 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    From Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark

    Keywords: by Sylvain Lenfle & Carliss Y. Baldwin; Manufacturing
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Jorge Tamayo
    Professor Tamayo’s research focuses on theoretical modeling and structural estimation of firm decision-making and productivity.

    Professor Tamayo studies dynamic competition for customer membership. Generally, firms that implement a membership model charge a... View Details
    • 24 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

    so for me, that’s the main motivation for the paper, as well as trying to explore whether people are more or less productive given this new environment.” The results confirmed high levels of COVID-related remote work, which the View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 10 Aug 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

    before." That device, Edwards Lifesciences' SAPIEN transcatheter heart valve, was approved in Europe four years before it was approved in the United States—the 40th country to do so. Stern decided to research just how difficult it is to... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology
    • 06 Feb 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

    high-tech products could only be found in the United States. These successes were due in large part to government investment in basic science research and mass production. "During World War II, the... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing
    • 24 Oct 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

    has been following up his initial research to determine how review sites can do just that. He notes that consistency of reviews were weakest when there were a low number—supporting the criticism by those restaurants that blame Yelp for... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
    • April 2021
    • Teaching Note

    Drinkworks: Home Bar by Keurig

    By: Sunil Gupta and Jonathan Levav
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 521-010. In the summer of 2018, Drinkworks CEO Nathaniel Davis needed to make a number of go-to-market decisions ahead of his company’s upcoming product launch. Formed through a joint venture between Keurig Dr. Pepper and Anheuser-Busch... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Markets; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Market Design; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Product; Product Design; Product Development; Business Model; Customers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Making; Decisions; Goods and Commodities; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Research; Research and Development; Strategy; Adoption; Competitive Advantage; Segmentation; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Value; Value Creation; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; North and Central America; United States
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    • 17 Apr 2016
    • News

    Big Business Speaks Up on Social Issues

    • 13 Jan 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?

    Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 12 Feb 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?

    line has an end and there is an identifiable person who occupies it,” says Buell. “They know they’re last and everyone around them knows it as well.” The anxiety we feel about being last can affect how consumers experience waiting for a View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service

      Michael E. Porter

      Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras

      New industries sparked by technological change are characterized by high uncertainty. In this paper we explore how a firm's conceptualization of products in this context, as reflected by product feature choices, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We study... View Details
      Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Technological Innovation; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Growth; Product Development; Behavior; Competitive Strategy; Electronics Industry
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      • 21 Sep 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life

      atrocious.” In a second study, the research team examined how the “sensibility” of a person’s activities affects how meaningful people thought the person’s life was. This time, participants were told about people like Naomi, who either... View Details
      Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
      • 14 Feb 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research: February 14

      psychological scientists of the modern era. These readable essays highlight the most important contributions to theory and research in psychological science, show how the greatest psychological scientists formulate and think about their... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne