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- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
used in the iPod as a foundation for an entirely new product, the iPhone. And then it increased the size and added functions to create the iPad, a portable tablet computer. "It was already halfway to becoming a computer, and they... View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
of size and demographics. So, there's no question that these are special events that businesses want to be associated with. The Olympics is one of most powerful brands in the world. Q: That said, although the games drew an average of 21... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
innovations generate heterogeneous innovation qualities, and firm size affects innovation incentives. This framework allows us to analyze how different types of innovation contribute to economic growth and how the firm View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Rotemberg Abstract A model is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of price changes and this can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices
live TV, the play might soon reappear on a sports network's Twitter feed. According to Brown, users' attention spans are somewhat proportional to the size of the screens they use. That means they're less willing to sit through an... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
traditional endogenous growth theory and to new theoretical approaches that focus on variability in innovation outcomes within the firm size distribution. Using new data on 11,514 U.S. R&D firms active during the interwar and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
cluster size and degree of specialization is measured along 3D: absolute number of employees (>10,000 jobs is used as cut-off for a regional cluster), degree of specialization (regional sector employment is at least two times expected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
pharmaceutical companies — what the authors call downstream social capital — had a direct impact on the size of the startup's IPO. "Downstream social capital was essential in attracting the interest of a top investment bank and... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
voting data appeal to forecasters precisely because the available numbers are broad and accurate. Predicting long-term trends influenced by aging, migration, fertility, and mortality is possible. Even projections of the future size and... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
retailer penny profit and retailer margin. Q: In addition to CLV and pricing and profitability, what other toolkits are available for marketing managers? A: There are five toolkits currently available that cover the key analytical tools marketing managers use:... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
retailer profitability, and the impact of each policy on customer decisions about the size of their shopping carts and whether to purchase from particular product categories. It was written by Ngwe and Chaoqun Chen, assistant professor at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
discount in price in order to sell to an organization with a comparable journalistic reputation, the fear of a shareholder lawsuit limited the size of the discount, even in a company with a semi-public, family-controlled ownership. What,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
tax-deferred investing, and the size of the implicit government subsidies made through this channel, make this question a first-order policy issue. There has been a vigorous and contentious debate about which one of these effects, in... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
immigration as one of the ways to keep the population base at its size or greater, and even better if that can be a skilled workforce." Bitter Debate Yet in the United States, specific policies and admission levels of skilled immigrants... View Details
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
market size can be defended. The significant variation I find in bond market size and creditor protections over 150 years does not support the notion of persistent effects of legal origin. Second, I test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
Imagine you are experiencing pain in your shoulder, and your doctor says you have torn a tendon. If the tear is big, she says, you will need surgery, whereas, if it’s slightly smaller, surgery is optional. Which size tear would you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
If you want to become good at early-stage investing, you need to learn how to size up the fundamental elements of an opportunity. Many investors use checklists or think of evaluation as a process of judging an entrepreneur, or an idea, or... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
always applying the same kind of discipline and rigor in their analysis of projects. They simply liked a project and supported it, or didn't. "Overall, the general sense is that the projects that found success on Kickstarter were by no means crazy," Nanda says. "Quite... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Recreation
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
their next venture-backed firm, compared with 23 percent for those who previously failed and 22 percent for first-timers. "The size of the effect more than anything was surprising," note HBS professors Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
over the distribution of knowledge. To date, they have been far too concerned with the size of their royalties, at the expense of public utility. The fate of discoveries we all rely upon, and the intellectual property that results from... View Details