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- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
strategy. In addition, nearly 50 faculty members have conducted research and published articles in three broad categories: examining the effects of AI on particular firms, applying existing machine learning in new ways, and creating new... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- March 2021 (Revised October 2021)
- Teaching Note
Afterpay U.S.: The Omnichannel Dilemma
By: Antonio Moreno and Anibha Singh
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-086. In 2018, Nick Molnar, the founder of the Australia-based online payment service Afterpay began its expansion to the U.S. market. The service had gained a loyal following in Australia by enabling customers to pay for online... View Details
Keywords: Omnichannel Retail; Digital Marketing; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Change Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Satisfaction; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; Global Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Product Development; Supply Chain Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Network Effects; Internet and the Web; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Australia
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
leaders that 'buck' the now orthodox definition of the balanced, emotionally intelligent, people-focused leader the likes of Gates and Jobs may have highly effective leaders below them and they are the true heroes of these large... View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia
the Insights and Innovation team, whose objective is to deepen the understanding of the Patagonia customer, drive business decisions using feedback and insights, and lead innovative approaches that enable Patagonia to more effectively... View Details
- Web
Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
lives through revolutionary egg freezing science that gives women the option to effectively slow down the biological clock. EyeView Tal Riesenfeld, MBA 2008 EyeView is transforming online conversion through the use of online video.... View Details
- Web
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders | Working Knowledge
class for Army officers. Unable to serve because of poor eyesight, McNamara wanted to be close to the action in 1943 and helped man the US Office of Statistical Control in London, where he applied the statistical methods he had honed at HBS to monitor troop and View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
“suggesting that many businesses expect this to extend well beyond their current cash.” Survey respondents indicated that demand shocks and employee health concerns have been more disruptive than the supply chain problems that are more... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
increased enrollment by 3–5 percentage points. Newly eligible households were also 20% more likely to own a business, with larger effects for incorporated firms. I find large increases in labor supply on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
by networks of other people who can supply the thousand things it takes to fuel a business. Here is how William Sahlman, business educator and scholar, began a paper, "Some Thoughts on Business Plans," much used—and cited — by... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
companies, where decision rights and incentives can be murky, and the effects of any given choice can be tough to pin down. So the authors chose a “lab rat” with fewer barriers to understanding—the venture capital industry. VC firms are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
physical assets (such as health records); combining data within and across industries (to, say, coordinate supply chains); trading data (as mobile providers do with information on users' whereabouts); and codifying best-in-class... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
and by the effects of their private governance mechanisms. These organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
minimizes a convex approximation of this metric. We further develop an exponential penalty approach and show that its computational performance is far superior and its trade-off between delay and fairness compares favorably. In our results, we demonstrate the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
immigration research focused on studying immigration through shifts in the supply of workers to a particular labor market. But Kerr and his fellow researchers took a rare route by looking at skilled immigration through the lens of the US... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
decided to make adjustments to the initial pricing scheme that were set to go into effect August 1. Were these changes enough to turn things around? Should Johnson stay the course on the other elements of his repositioning efforts? Is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
purchaser, rather than the generator, of roadway data. The early days required a lot of evangelism, but in the past five years, most governments have begun seeing how much more effective we can be.” Turning government agencies into... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
developed economies (N) tend to have large and persistent effects on developing countries (S). We study the transmission of business cycle fluctuations for developed to developing economies with a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
P/E industries, which have a negative valuation change in the year after the investment. 2006 New England Journal of Medicine Leading Clinicians and Clinicians Leading By: Bohmer, Richard M.J. Abstract—More effective models of care... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne