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- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
Researchers have long shown that there are differences in how socially responsible companies depend on the culture of their country of origin. Companies located in countries including Germany, Japan, and most Nordic nations are more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
timing and also how much they've tended to cannibalize internal businesses that exist. There's usually a lot of resistance to anything that seems to cannibalize, even though it may be obvious that the ultimate result of that... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies (revised) Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
is yes. The safety of the financial system depends on financial institutions' risk exposure, their ability to absorb losses, their reliance on short-term wholesale funding, transparency, and understanding the interconnectedness between... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
across the sands of the Sahara, it is formally located in Tunisia, or Algeria, or Libya, depending on to whom you talk or which way the winds are blowing. It is an ancient place, Partenia, a remnant of a world that hardly anyone can even... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
business will pay for the services of your graduates if they don’t ask the hard questions? Meeting others who can advance your career isn’t all there is, maybe that is what “nobody really understood.” Timing is everything. Light, “an... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition
are able to! A scrappy and entrepreneurial attitude is a must in order to succeed and thrive these days.” Tucker: “Venture capital as a career is highly dependent on so many factors. What stage do you invest? What geography? What... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
must in order to succeed and thrive these days.” Tucker: “Venture capital as a career is highly dependent on so many factors. What stage do you invest? What geography? What industry? And most importantly, with whom? Take the View Details
- 23 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Status: When and Why It Matters
today. Looking at grand cru-classified wines of the vintages from 1991 to 2008, Malter found that the wines from the first class earned three times as much as wines from the second class, holding constant the quality of the focal bottle... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
AIR AND SPACE: GLF participants enjoyed cocktails and dinner at the popular Washington museum. PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANUTA OTFINOWSKI There has never been a time when there have been as many challenges facing this country as there are now, nor... View Details
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
industry, and then into areas such as brokerage fees and other professional services. In recent years, the deregulation movement has spread to industries with which consumers interact daily, such as electric power and telephone service, whose View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
measures: the resources needed to perform an activity, and the time it takes to perform it. Feeley, Kaplan, and a team at UnitedHealthcare are using TDABC to track the costs for the bundled payment pilot. "Bob Kaplan made the point... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
to be sure, but as Wilcox explained and E Ink's experience made clear, its prospects depend on a welter of fundamentally human choices. Twenty minutes after Sahlman's finance students finished dissecting E Ink and one floor up in Aldrich... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
just a fluke? Was Marvel's success dependent on a limited set of blockbuster characters, most notably Spider-Man, and should Marvel continue to capitalize on those characters? Or was it time to seek growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
third-party distributors in Europe and Asia; and (3) selling directly on Amazon. The direct salesforce offered the most control, but was also the costliest option and the one that would take the most time to put in place. Developing more... View Details
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
presidential races. They studied the number of votes cast in each county for the candidates and used registered party affiliation at the county level to look at how campaign effects differed depending on the level of voter partisanship.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
out that an everyday item has the power to act as both angel and devil every time we go to the grocery store. It lurks in car trunks and pantries all over the world, waiting to guide us simultaneously down paths of virtue and vice. What... View Details
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Commencement 2019 Address | About
would you choose? All of us, from time to time, will have lapses of competence. It is impossible to get every decision right. Even the best investors, for example, make some terrible mistakes. Although such errors are never to be taken... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
call may be having a dramatic experience during this crisis is an important subtext for how they are navigating the conversation with me.” “[Pacing] ourselves as leaders to remain strong for all the people that depend on us, [managing]... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
Dolphin Comport: To Wilson, the bowl of this piece (c. 1929) "suggests a body in an endless pirouette." Photo Courtesy of Charlie Wilson When Charlie Wilson (MBA 1967) was a small boy, he lived for a time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with... View Details