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- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
everything—was reportedly in conversations to buy some of those storefronts—possibly its first real beach-head in the brick-and-mortar world. As harbingers of the future of retail, these events certainly caught the attention of Harvard... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
book excerpt Leading Innovation From Collective Genius: The Art of Practice of Leading Innovation By Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove and Kent Linebeck Though each of our leaders and their firms differed in key ways, all leaders paid particular View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
business. As the Republic of Turkey sought to catch up with the advanced West in the 20th century, the pioneers of modern businesses faced the same challenges caused by weak capital, labor, and other markets as encountered in many other... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
exhaustion," as he wrote in June 1937. Early in 1938, he reported to Harold Burbank, chairman of the Economics Department, "I am half dead and certainly entirely dazed from the long hours I must spend on rereading and touching View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
The coronavirus crisis forced health care providers to mobilize in ways few could have predicted six months ago, revealing not only the system’s weaknesses but its profound ingenuity. Within weeks, providers worldwide set up drive-through... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
would mean navigating the FDA approval process, as well as raising the capital necessary to finance the endeavor. It was up to Bollinger to decide on a strategy for Vascugel's clinical trials. In addition, he would have to decide how much... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
another way. You might, in a moment of weakness, depict your situation in a particularly favorable light to your prospective lender and make yourself look worse off to the IRS. Indeed, you might end up with two completely different... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
rule-making done behind the scenes, Gehl and Porter assert. The parties have enacted rules that protect their dominance by controlling the primary process, access to voter data, fundraising limits, how Congress is governed, and what issues are debated. The system even... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
advocating what are corporate "responsibilities," but by first understanding why current socially-oriented practices occur. So, in this paper we do not take up the argument that corporations have a responsibility to engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
sector financial help a joint venture was set up with POEMA, a modern high-tech factory built, and coca plantations developed. Some 5,000 people were employed. Literacy levels soared. Political participation increased. Change had been... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
also demonstrated a base of support in their cities for system-wide change. We discussed the program in this e-mail Q &A with Childress and Allen Grossman, who is the HBS faculty chair for the program. Childress, Grossman, and coauthor Richard Elmore, a professor... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
begin? A: One of the most hopeful things we discovered in the course of this research is that the revolution, if you will, has already started. The U.S. [healthcare] system can be reformed from the bottom up. Any hospital, physician... View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
that the public sector hands out. For instance, programs geared toward boosting nascent entrepreneurs may instead end up boosting cronies of the nation's rulers or legislators. The annals of government venturing programs abound with... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
strategy that was explicitly based on the perceived strengths and weaknesses of its competitor, Ford.2 In the 1930s, Chester Barnard, a top executive with AT&T, argued that managers should pay especially close attention to... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
up to the point where the benefit of the marginal project is just equal to the cost. Because labor is a key input to innovation when the opportunity cost of time is lower, such as during school breaks or time off from work, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
UPS prided itself on the fact that "your grandmother paid the same price GM did." When it entered the market, FedEx became the fastest company to reach $1 billion in sales in part because its pricing recognized inherent value... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Success Authors: Josh Lerner, Antoinette Schoar, and Jialan Wang Publication: Journal of Economic Perspectives (summer 2008): 207-222 Abstract University endowments have received much attention recently for their superior investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
dimension of prior experience is whether the outcome was successful or unsuccessful. While empirical studies have investigated the effects of success and failure in organizational learning, to date the phenomenon has received little View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
include demeaning remarks, repeated threats to opt for a competitor, misrepresentations, repudiation of previously agreed provisions, last-minute demands, divide-and-conquer moves, and a waiting game that exploits the smaller firm's evidently urgent need for a closure.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, HBS Working Knowledge gathered insights from Harvard Business School faculty about what’s at stake for companies, and how the election might impact workplaces. They offer an assessment as the race heats View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne