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- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
the examples demonstrate ways in which market design can break barriers—physical, political, and/or metaphorical. Each example also illustrates one of four broader classes of ways that market design can create positive change: marketplace... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
IAS GAAP. All of this suggests that the market supports the push for a global set of standards—the issue is what that set of standards should really look like. Q: Has anything you observed in the last few years about accounting standards and the international View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
managers' social initiatives are akin to using a dishwasher to wash clothes. Corporations can contribute best to society if they do what they do best: employ a workforce to provide goods and services to the marketplace and, in so doing,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
process of taking an innovation from academia to the marketplace when he joined the new venture in 2008, even if the cement industry itself was a departure for him. That turn, taken in the later phase of his career, has resulted in an... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
have easily monopolized the marketplace with his discovery, Fairburn instead made the patented process available to the entire industry at no cost. His gesture sent the match industry on a reinvigorated growth path. Throughout each decade... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
not just a $10,000 restaurant-quality stove. Creating, marketing, and selling the “killer app” product that captures that meaningful quality in an increasingly crowded, noisy marketplace is luxury’s ongoing challenge — and for alumni who... View Details
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
amenities, like a kitchen. And if you still prefer a hotel room, competition from Airbnb means you'll pay a lower price for it." Airbnb's rapid growth Airbnb, an online community marketplace where people can list and book short-term... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
by the fact that management was loaded up with stock options. So you had this syndrome of short-term goals and lots of options, which was a perversion of what should be the long-term goals of corporate America — an evaluation of what is good management, a View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
transactional media marketplace and hoped that two new marketing analytics products would give it a more predictable revenue stream. But sales were behind forecast. DataXu’s large brand and advertising agency clients found the new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
facing a disruptive threat, so he chartered a special team to tackle the industrial segment. Given a high degree of autonomy, the project team developed an understanding of the marketplace challenge and proceeded to develop and execute on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
holds the "monopoly position" in the world marketplace it once enjoyed. "Students come here to learn, but they also have a responsibility to teach," he observes. "They have been admitted to HBS on the basis of their unique experiences -... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
expectations. Determined to embrace e-commerce, Beck immediately encountered five or six competitors with the same idea. Everybody had similar levels of seed funding and it was clear that the marketplace would not support multiple... View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
wines. Making matters more difficult, organic winemaking required a sophisticated understanding of complex environmental and chemical processes in the vineyard and winery, and organic wines typically did not command a premium in the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
strategy to educate the marketplace and pursue new distribution channels. Increased investor interest in environmental issues-and an ever growing number of corporate environmental rankings-led to a proliferation of competitors to Trucost,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
Business derives its legitimacy from ideology—the ideas of property rights and marketplace competition, for example. In the 1980s, Professor Ezra Vogel of Harvard and I compared the ideologies of nine countries, noting how the sources of... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
marketplace status quo. Demanding a voice and sometimes a hand in the products they buy, these digitally empowered consumers― “Me’s”―have inverted the traditional power dynamics of retail into metail. To put it simply, your customers are... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
deployment, and management of multiple brands as a coordinated portfolio of meaning-based assets that address the needs of diverse customers in a marketplace and maximize return while minimizing risk. It specifies the optimal portfolio of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
to be unattractive. Women—attractive or not—were least likely to successfully persuade investors. The paper grudgingly acknowledges that this type of bias on the part of investors may “not necessarily represent irrational marketplace... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
marketplace for neurotechnology digital health products, was accepted into the Harvard i-lab Venture Incubation Program and the Rock Accelerator; she is now working on it full-time with cofounders Brian Smith (MBA 2017) and Sofia Warner... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
competitive context. This support translates into purchase intention, real purchase, and more favorable online reviews in a study of over 10,000 Yelp posts. We argue that this "framing the game effect" is mediated by consumers' motivation to express their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne