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- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
that helped level social divides by providing equal access to useful skills and cultural or educational opportunities to everyone in a city. The leader who envisioned and built this into a leading site with 50 million regular users turned down several lucrative offers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
Benjamin G., Michael Luca, and Daniel Svirsky Abstract—Online marketplaces increasingly choose to reduce the anonymity of buyers and sellers in order to facilitate trust. We demonstrate that this common market design choice results in an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
relative to one-sided markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-011.pdf Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? (revised) Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We analyze the incentives to divert search for an information intermediary who... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Sweden compared with the United States. In particular, a later development of financial markets and a heavier tax burden for entrepreneurs have played a key role. Publisher's link: http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/1/153.full.pdf+html 2006 Boston Review Can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Industry Information - Alumni
the global personal care and household product market. Recently, it has added features on a variety of subjects, and expanded coverage in fast-growing markets in Asia and Latin America. CPG Matters A twice-monthly e-zine directed to the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
specific use of the asset class when he observed that a possible use of Bitcoin could be “hedge funds betting on sovereign debt defaults.” Charles Sabatier III added that Bitcoin is the most secure financial network in the world. “The infrastructure that processes... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
structure the background against which business operates. The aim is to develop a plausible framework for managerial decision-making that respects the fact of value pluralism in a global economy and that fosters meaningful criticism of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Harvard Business School
assistant buyer and rose to overseeing buying in Europe and Asia. He was one of the first Black executives at Macy's. Wilkinson later moved to the New York City Transit Authority, becoming executive officer for surface transit with... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
field study of 78 audit and consulting teams from two global professional firms, revealing an irony of team life: even though motivated to perform well on a high-stakes project, pressured teams are more likely to engage in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
going back thousands of years to bazaars, but technology has enabled platforms to be globally scalable, which had never previously been possible. While many people lump innovation and transaction platforms together, we argue that they are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006
overall competitiveness, the report identifies national competitive strengths and weaknesses, highlights global economic trends, and signals the ingredients of successful economic development. The Index is part of the research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
Competitiveness Global Practice. In Haiti, for example, the third-poorest country in the world and the site of a catastrophic earthquake in 2010, Duch says that after “a crash course in strategy,” having used the HBS case method,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method
strategies. Procter & Gamble employed this model when it wanted to become a major player in the global beauty-care sector. It transformed the down-market Oil of Olay into a world-class brand and proved that this product could attract both... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets
buyers and sellers are currently excluded from global commerce. These individuals, because of their collective size, will likely redefine the concept of banking and financial access in the future.” Working... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
type of collaboration and convenings that will be made possible by HBS’s new Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS). “BiGS can support research and bring visiting fellows to HBS to think creatively about the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Creating more effective content across all media
Associate Professor Thales Teixeira’s research into the economics of attention explores the ways in which companies can better communicate with buyers of goods and services in a marketplace cluttered with messaging across all media.... View Details
- 19 Oct 2021
- News
In the Contest for Content
well as streaming options like Spotify and Apple Music. A recent New York Times article, “A $1 Billion Competitor for Music Rights Says ‘Content Is Queen,’” explains that HarbourView is backed by up to $1 billion from Apollo Global... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
this work,” says Roberts, “and nine out of ten will describe turning over logs and discovering things when they were little.” Four decades later, he’s still discovering nature, but on a global scale. Since his appointment in February 2005... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Gaining Currency
REYNOLDS: Weak dollar cuts both ways. To illustrate the global impact of fluctuating exchange rates, the New York Times (December 11, 2004) focused on two small, family-owned manufacturers, one located in Germany and the other in the... View Details