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  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

Ghemawat The organizational challenges involved in World War II were a vital stimulus to strategic thinking. The problem of allocating scarce resources across the entire economy in wartime led to many innovations in management science.... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

tinkerers from across the globe led to a process of cumulative innovation unhindered by rivalry operating through the intellectual property rights system. Yet in 1903, the year the Wright Brothers achieved... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

novel, as well as individual cases). Four principles guided development of the series and its associated pedagogy: 1) emphasis on integrative, soft-skill, and business-oriented aspects of IS, independent of underlying technologies; 2) student derivation and ongoing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

Devices: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Regulators and Innovators By: Gordon, William J., and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract— Software has become an increasingly important component of medical device technology. Through legislation like... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Feb 2017
  • Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

oversees a transparent award. Fourth, projects can be planned and sequenced to optimize cumulative benefit. While it’s tempting to spread infrastructure spending around for political reasons, that can lead to disconnected and unrelated... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

The House that Howard Built

entrepreneurship, neither really understanding it nor teaching or researching it in a committed fashion. To its credit, from the School’s earliest years on, Deans Gay, Donham, and David had encouraged research on the importance of View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

experiments offer evidence that debates about the relative costs and benefits of self-deception are informed by adopting a temporal view that assesses the cumulative impact of self-deception over time. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

difference is cumulated across all four simulations and then subtracted from their account. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208117 Equity Options Harvard Business School Note 208-118 The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

than 350 interviews in 20 countries to identify the leadership practices and operating methods of major companies seeking profitable growth through innovation that benefits society. For example, when the tsunami and earthquake struck... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

widely used by inventors to protect and appropriate the returns to innovation and yield lessons for ongoing policy debates over potential measures to protect U.S. invention against the growing incidence of foreign IP theft today. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

loss of annual income. For firms, we document an economically and statistically significant cumulative abnormal return of -0.97% around announcement of dissent. Although the literature has suggested that dissent might be reflective of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

Economics Prizes, Publicity, and Patents: Non-Monetary Awards as a Mechanism to Encourage Innovation By: Moser, Petra, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—This paper exploits the selection of prize-winning technologies among exhibitors at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne