Import Substitution - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

suggests a complementary relationship, commenting that, while no substitute for street smarts, the MBA provides "tools and strategic understanding skills that accelerate an average human being's learning curve." Will the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

bottom line. Q: Why is India gaining prominence for medical tourism? A: India is encouragingly less "scary" now. I think a lot of entrusting medical care to different locations is about a psychological fear of the unknown. An View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

top-down, generic approaches to communicating their plans with their employees. Although mass emails and newsletters are not problematic in and of themselves, they are no substitute for the kind of communication this moment calls... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

organization on the MSP-reseller continuum is an important strategic decision for many intermediaries. What drives that decision? In their paper, Hagiu and Wright identify four key economic trade-offs between operating as a reseller and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout taxes,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

outside base module and the proprietary firm's open extensions could result in a stronger free competitor. So the firm is more likely to open substitute modules, rather than complementary ones, to the outside OS project. We do find that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

only added three substitutions to his roster, 40 percent fewer changes than his fellow turnaround coaches made that season. Only one of eight coaching positions changed when a new assistant coach replaced the departing brother of the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

help leaders learn about leading through a crisis. There they will develop much faster than they will in leading through good times, or studying how other leaders behaved in crises. As the military learned long ago, there is simply no View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

importance of spending time with business practitioners However, novelty and relevance need not be mutually exclusive. In “Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research,” Toffel argues that steering research toward real-world business... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

to experiment to see what works best for them. Datar: We also believe that it is important for schools to broaden the types of research that faculty conduct at business schools. The discipline-based research of the last 50 years has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

doctoral candidate Lisa R. Klein and MIT professor Ernst R. Berndt, offer some important insights. The researchers begin by identifying forces both inside and outside the media industry that are influencing its rapid evolution. Then,... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

11 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

substitutability is preserved under economically important transformations such as trade endowments, mergers, and limited liability. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology

for the study of technological adoption and performance. On a more practical level, we chose the hospital industry because of its sheer importance to the overall economy. For example, in 2003 total hospital spending in the United States... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Health

29 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

in others and show that all these definitions are equivalent. We then introduce a new class of substitutable preferences that allows us to model intermediaries with production capacity. We also prove that View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

property rights institutions that restrain the state can be more important as they provide the foundation for contractual institutions. In short, the ability to contract effectively between private parties is meaningless unless you can be... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

18 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

software modules and in another case conferred distinct strategic advantages on a firm (by permitting substitution of an at-risk software module without substantial change to the rest of the system). The experiment supports our hypothesis... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important attempt to span this abyss. IGOs are mandated variously to smooth economic... View Details