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- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of labor regulation and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. We find that higher prices screen out those who use the product less. By contrast, we find no consistent evidence of sunk-cost effects. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
Enterprise Capital Markets Harvard Business School Case 307-078 Seeking to impact global poverty and philanthropy, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar donates $100 million to Tufts University for a trust restricted to investment in microfinance.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
product portfolio. Maybe we are no longer going to produce assault weapons. Or maybe we will make a really interesting effort into producing smart weapons.” Unique ideas and insights are common on the podcast Harvard Business School After... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
fragmented network of units that are hard to integrate. Q:You mentioned earlier the application of your ideas to social problems. How has your understanding of domestic and international competition given you insights into these matters?... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
structural model using field data. This is because, quarterly and annual bonuses help generate the instruments necessary to identify both discount factors in a hyperbolic discounting model. Substantively, the paper sheds insights on how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
high-tech entrepreneurship from three path-breaking entrepreneurs who emerged as CEOs of huge global companies. Their approaches to formulating strategy and building organizations offer unique insights for start-up executives as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
U.K., have adopted a hybrid approach known as the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), also known as "public-private partnerships" (PPP). Under this approach, private firms build and operate the infrastructure while the host government bears many of the residual... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
market but at a position that is the most critical leadership position for an NFL team. Tom Brady, the six-time super bowl champion widely considered the NFL’s Greatest of All Time (GOAT), signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, after the... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
those one-out-of-ten firms grow into successful, sustained enterprises? Assistant professor Mukti Khaire believes that small companies can grow by developing intangible social resources such as legitimacy, status, and reputation. In an interesting twist, her research... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
and French size and value portfolios, the market portfolio, bond portfolios, and the entire cross-section of stocks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-060.pdf Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
would jump-start change at SGDU, she began to suspect (correctly) that people throughout the unit were talking about its strategy—and she further suspected that plenty of managers a couple of layers down had insights that she needed to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
resulting endogenous scarcity of informed investors exacerbates primary market collapses in bad times. Inefficiency arises because informed investors are a public good from the perspective of originators. All originators benefit from the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
In this article, Pozen presents a new model for the corporate board. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2010/12/the-big-idea-the-case-for-professional-boards/ar/1# M@n@gement in Times of Economic Crisis: Insights into Organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
communism as a result of too many layers of bureaucracy and not enough market (true enough). But I then tell students that I made a mistake and that this chart actually represents the managerial organizations of one of the most successful... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
consumers using smartphones to discover online prices. Our findings provide insights for managers on how and when self-matching can be an effective pricing strategy to embrace. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
explanations for entrepreneurial success in nascent markets but leaves a key imperative unexplored: the business model. By studying five ventures in the same nascent market, we develop a novel theoretical framework for understanding how... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Entrepreneurship: Insights for an Approach to Strategic Management That Combines Agency and Institution Authors:Julie Battilana and B. Leca Publication:In Handbook of Research on Strategy and Foresight, edited by L.A. Costanzo and R.B.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
the real insight from our analysis was that this differential is minor relative to the differential when we look at the level of financing activities of the covered firms. Q: You make the point in your research that "the figures... View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
some risks and its politics will remain opaque and confusing to outsiders attempting to do business there." Is Foreign Investment Enough? NAFTA offers another insight into the economies of Mexico and other developing nations. In the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna