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  • March 2012
  • Article

The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras

By: Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas
New industries sparked by technological change are characterized by high technological, market, and competitive uncertainty. In this paper we explore how a firm's conceptualization of products in this context, reflected in its introduction of product features, is... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Transformation; Risk and Uncertainty; Competitive Strategy; Product; Values and Beliefs; Mathematical Methods; Power and Influence; Behavior; Experience and Expertise; Design; Market Entry and Exit; Employment Industry; Computer Industry
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    Patient Capital: The Challenges and Promises of Long-Term Investing

    There has never been a greater need for long-term investments. And it is increasingly unlikely that the public sector will be willing or able to fill the gap. Those best positioned to address the long-run needs are likely to be the pools of capital in the hands of... View Details

    • Program

    Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms

    artificial intelligence further propels the opportunity and need to leverage a platform model for competitive advantage. AI companies are evolving into the next generation of platforms. This program will... View Details
    • 12 May 2015
    • Video

    Class of 2015: What did you learn here?

    • 25 Aug 2022
    • News

    Reinventing the Future of Business

    in July, launched the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3). The Institute provides HBS and other schools at Harvard with a powerful foundation for accelerating research on big, multidisciplinary problems in business and society. Its success View Details
    • 23 May 2023
    • Cold Call Podcast

    The Entrepreneurial Journey of China’s First Private Mental Health Hospital

    Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education
    • 01 Mar 2013
    • News

    Sea of Dreams

    Illustration by Shutterstock I've always loved boats. When I was just a few years old, my grandfather set me up in a small sailing dinghy and sent me on my way. I have no recollection of the instruction that must have come before, but the... View Details
    Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
    • 20 Oct 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Financing Risk and Bubbles of Innovation

    Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf; Financial Services
    • 01 Jun 2005
    • News

    Change of Pace

    between the liberal bishop and the GOP politician, who share an interest in putting the values of their Christian faith into action in the secular arena,” the Boston Globe (March 7, 2005) reported. Houghton, who himself at one time... View Details
    Keywords: GOP; Catholic; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
    • February 2010 (Revised April 2011)
    • Case

    The Political Economy of Carbon Trading

    By: Forest L. Reinhardt, J. Gunnar Trumbull, Mikell Hyman, Patia McGrath and Nazli Zeynep Uludere
    Global climate change is an increasingly prominent political and business problem. Design of market-based systems to reduce carbon emissions has proven difficult. More broadly, national attempts to comply with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol present both... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; International Relations; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Pollutants; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Public Administration Industry
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and its Relation to Firm Performance

    By: Ethan Rouen
    I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm accounting performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean employee... View Details
    Keywords: Pay Disparity; Pay Ratio; CEO Pay Ratio; Income Inequality; Executive Compensation; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Business Ventures; Performance
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    • April 2015 (Revised March 2017)
    • Case

    Instacart and the New Wave of Grocery Startups

    By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
    Instacart is testing an Uber-style solution to the challenge of building a home-delivered grocery business. It is backed by $220 million of venture funding. Will this model succeed where businessses like Webvan failed? What are the questions that this exploratory... View Details
    Keywords: Food Retailing; Outsourced Grocery Delivery; Online Ordering; Dynamic Pricing; Data Analytics; Marketing Strategy; Food; Distribution Channels; Business Startups; Food and Beverage Industry; California
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    • 05 Dec 2024
    • HBS Seminar

    Christopher Marquis, University of Cambridge Judge Business School

      The Poor Payoff of Pleasure Postponed

      A need to feel efficient, and a tendency to feel guilty when we do something “just for fun,” may be universally human. But the Israeli-born Keinan says productivity-obsessed Americans take this to an extreme, viewing pleasurable pastimes as wasteful, irresponsible,... View Details

      • 01 Mar 2012
      • News

      Pledge of Allegiance

      pledge never to raise taxes, even as budget deficits soar. According to the Financial Times (November 21, 2011), Norquist believes the pledge makes Republicans more credible with their constituents. “The pledge is useful,” Norquist said. “I have not spent 20 years... View Details
      Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
      • 10 Nov 2008
      • What Do You Think?

      How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

      customers if we give something back, even if that something is a sense of belonging just look at this forum to see it in action." As Jacoline Loewen put it, "Even if a company does not want customers involved in their business... View Details
      Keywords: by Jim Heskett
      • 04 Nov 2019
      • News

      Getting Around: Shaping the Future of Transportation

      • October 1999 (Revised November 1999)
      • Case

      Wit Capital: Evolution of the Online Investment Bank

      Wit Capital brings democracy to the IPO process via the World Wide Web. This case encourages debate about the role service will play in this technology-intermediated investment bank and the sources and sustainability of its competitive advantage. View Details
      Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Service Delivery; Competitive Advantage; Investment Banking; Web; Banking Industry
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      • 13 Sep 2015
      • News

      We'll Tire of Trump's Narcissism, Eventually

      • 02 Nov 2016
      • Blog Post

      The Benefits of a Residential Campus

      late night social activities. Sometimes a friend on campus hosts a game night last minute. Sometimes people read cases or watch a movie together. Even if the activity is off campus, you can find a bunch of people View Details