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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
sets. To demonstrate the sets, he secured informal permission from his employer to string an electrical wire from a local hilltop to serve as an antenna for the reception of signals from Philadelphia stations. When customers who purchased TV View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household income recovered by the unemployment benefit), we estimate that a one standard deviation increase in generosity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
companies batten down the hatches, we need leaders who don't compromise on standards and values that are essential in flush times. Fortunately, such leaders do exist. Their insights can help other organizations weather the current crisis,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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agility, and working towards strategic objectives. Managers work together to set strategy, priorities, and policies, determine resource allocation, manage performance and coach individual staff on their career goals, and measure results.... View Details
- 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008
plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a standard version of the neoclassical growth model augmented to incorporate monopolistic competition among heterogeneous... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
pursued flexible business strategies beyond its "core" business, even distributing condoms. It maintained a high standard of corporate ethics. It was effective at building contacts with local business and government elites,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
of ethical standards are also tightly linked with how negotiators understand and define the game. Laboratory research on ethics in negotiation is starting to reveal, for instance, just how flexible and ambiguous such "standards"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
process conformance—the extent to which managers aim to reduce variation in store operations in accordance with a set of prescribed standards for task performance. At high-process-conformance stores,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
working on next? A: My research interests are at the intersection of accounting, economics, and politics. I am working on several projects on how political forces shape accounting standards. One project, with HBS professor Arthur Daemmrich, compares the differential... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Relations staff with a goal of describing HBS finances and demystifying some of the commonly held beliefs about the School's funding needs. These sessions were instrumental in informing the students and setting expectations for a lifetime... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative work, especially in settings where intellectual property protection is weak. We also connect collaborative patents to the ethnic composition of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
nature of that obligation will not be easily foresworn. Employees are unlikely to return happily to a workplace driven by the “old deal,” in which the employer sets standard rules of employment and the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract In their seminal 1985 paper, Katz and Shapiro study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and direct network effects. We consider systems compatibility when competing platforms are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
marketing and sales in Business-to-Business (B2B) organizations. It provides an historical overview, indicating that this is not a new issue facing firms, that the business press has outlined a recurring set of prescriptive advice about... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
advantages of scale for innovation, companies need the right combination of strategy, systems, and culture. Based on more than three decades of the Pisano's research, teaching, and experience, Creative Construction offers a set of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA
with companies or working on a research project identified by faculty. In both cases, site visits and guest speakers will be an additional element of the courses. Courses begin in the fall with several required on-campus sessions to set... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
late 1960s. Using ARD as a vehicle and organizing the financial support of some twenty international banks, General Doriot set up a holding company in Luxembourg called European Enterprises Development S.A., known under the acronym EED,... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
describes the purpose of boards is phrased very broadly. For instance, in Delaware, which sets the standard for other states, directors find little help in the statute that defines their job: "The business... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 12 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Electric Mobility in India
electric scooter We were lucky enough to see both their production lines for how they manufactured their batteries and their vehicles. It was incredible to see the standards they set for the workers and the... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
States, women’s share of board seats on the S&P 500 is 19.2 percent.) In other words, inasmuch as the gender gap is intractable in Sweden, it’s probably more so in most other countries. It is standard practice for researchers to test... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel