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- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
actually consistent with design principles established by the development team? The case seeks to expand students' view of the product development process. Traditional software development projects begin with the gathering of requirements and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England at annual competitions between 1839 and 1939. We find that the effects of prizes on competitive entry are large, and we also... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
programs. “Local governments already are running deficits, and they are getting worse,” said Abrami. Foreign competition that further weakens local enterprises and erodes the tax base could trigger a WTO backlash at the provincial level,... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
economies. We propose that firms' corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked. By conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance, scholars can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
product categories on the Internet. An analysis by Harris Interactive ecommercePulse computed the ratio of dollars consumers spent offline as a result of online shopping to dollars spent online. The greater the ratio, the more likely that... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
analysts, he or she must believe that an analyst's report is something more than a disguised sales pitch. So banks have ordinarily insisted that analysis and sales were separated by a so-called Chinese wall which left analysts free to... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
Boston Consulting Group, Matt Halprin and Bruce Holley, helped him figure out how to put it together (Halprin is still on MLT’s board). BCG’s analysis showed that, while medical schools and law schools had enrollments consistent with the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- Web
Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors Authors:Luo, Jianxi, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Daniel E. Whitney, and Christopher L. Magee Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change Abstract Many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research. Positive productivity gains are often attributed to knowledge spillover from multinational to domestic firms. An alternative, less stressed explanation is firm selection whereby View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
emergence or change. Yet the question of identity endurance is equally puzzling. Relying primarily on the analysis of 309 internal bulletins produced at a French aeronautics firm over almost fifty years, we theorize a link between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
that bridges neurology care for Midtown, Emory University Hospital, and Wesley Woods.” Questions raised by the assembled group make it clear that getting from the point of analysis to execution will take some serious work. “This can’t... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
diminished focus on losses and heightened focus on gains when policies are evaluated in bundled form. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-147.pdf PublicationsAssessing the Cost and Benefits of Brokers: A Preliminary View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
leads to a 14% increase in the likelihood of exit for a 3.5-star restaurant (which is the median rating on Yelp) but has no discernible impact for a 5-star restaurant (on a 1 to 5 star scale). Our analysis also highlights how digital data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
corporate culture— and not against the law in Germany until 1999. The competitive environment and permissive culture both played a role in the future bribery scandal. "There are three elements that lead individuals in companies to get... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
measurements are often difficult. Many senior managers have come to believe that further investment in new technology and e-commerce is an imperative that is required to maintain or develop a competitive position. They often make... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in providing media services. The results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
increasingly valuable offerings change where households go online, but not their general online attention patterns. This conclusion has important implications for competition and welfare in other markets for attention. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
creative thinking yields possibilities, or hypotheses, and rigorous analysis tests them. They should ask what must be true for a given possibility to succeed-and explore whether those conditions hold. Read the article:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
framing price appropriately.” Alternatively, currently popular strategic doctrine has many executives sailing off, like Ahab or Sinbad, in search of "blue oceans"—market spaces where allegedly no one else is fishing. Avoiding View Details