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- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
history, achievements in Mexico, and challenges in Arizona, inviting students to evaluate the keys to NatureSweet’s success in Mexico and analyze their potential for replication in the United States. Will Ambelang succeed in Arizona and,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
idea with Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. Nohria remembered that he and his HBS colleague, Rakesh Khurana, had noticed a similar effect in CEO data—that some chief executives had two distinct halves to their careers, a... View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
dollars in value, Kominers and his co-authors reported in Market Design to Accelerate COVID-19 Vaccine Supply in the March 12 issue of Science. “The value of being able to produce vaccines at scale the minute they clear trials is extremely high in a pandemic,” says... View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
produced and split the payment equally between the two participants. This article is part of a continuing series on faculty research and teaching commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first women to enter Harvard Business School's two-year View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
recently as "technology has made it easier to build marketplaces for services and fine-tune the degree of control exerted over service provider-customer interactions." HourlyNerd allows consultants (typically MBA students) to hire... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
remedies, and between discrete campaigns and continuous processes for managing retention. We identify several areas of research where further investigation will significantly enhance retention management. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
adapting the skills and practices of entrepreneurship for the public sector,” he says. Before joining the HBS faculty and creating the MBA course Public Entrepreneurship, Weiss was chief of staff to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. In 2010,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
Michael Roberto: My parents are Italian immigrants, and my family back in Tuscany and the Campania region of Italy continue to make their own wine. Therefore, I've always had an interest in the wine-making process. A few years ago, when teaching the Strategy course in... View Details
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
critical than Porter of the Japanese government's role in industry, panelist Yoshito Hori (HBS MBA '91) went far beyond Porter in his call for liberalization. "I really don't care about the government," Hori declared. "I... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
chapters so that students are prepared for the rewards and challenges they will face in the professional cost accounting world of today and tomorrow. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53893 forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
unresponsive or inefficient system? A: I think there is a big 3 here, an iron triangle, and those are the hospitals, the insurers, and the government. They want power. It's very understandable. Everybody wants to be powerful, and the way they View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19
Brown University, in the hope that they will adopt it and fund his company, EverTrue. He lacks the technical knowledge necessary to make the prototype himself, and so has to quickly decide on the best option. He is considering multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
had a "system" of hiring MBAs in cohorts of ten to fifteen. These young MBAs were generally placed into "assistant to" positions (assisting the head of a division, for example) for a... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
Governments and policymakers often assume that infrastructure development is key to jumpstarting economic growth for citizens, an “If we build it they will come” chain reaction of new jobs, more efficient transportation, and safer... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
recent study estimates that between 1990 and 1997, two hundred thousand more people moved out of the state than into it, in large part due to housing prices. Poorvu: Analyzing a mix of socioeconomic factors. (photo: Richard Chase) At HBS, William J. Poorvu, the View Details
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
Assistant Professor William R. Kerr teaches the required first-year MBA course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, in addition to Executive Education courses at Harvard Business School. One of his core research areas is the role of immigrant... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
outbreak, most public figures in South Korea, including its politicians, business and religious leaders, and even movie stars, have, for the most part, worn face masks in public. Imposing a fine for noncompliance will likely change... View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010
with limited financial resources can then focus on supplying superior bottleneck modules, while outsourcing and allowing complementors to supply non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
selling valuable and scarce products are more likely to have separate primary and secondary markets and will therefore appropriate more value when secondary markets thicken. Firms selling products that are not valuable and scarce View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Harvard Business School Case 118-014 Predicting Purchasing Behavior at PriceMart This case was written for the EC course “Managing with Data Science.” The course provides MBA students with no programming experience an introduction to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel