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- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
Columbus Dispatch titled, “Trade With Red China.” Rather than advocate a position, the ad laid out the pros and cons of establishing a trade relationship between the United States and a largely isolated but feared China. Nevertheless, it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
Faced with accepting $20 million less than anticipated from the stock offering, she told the class, the company never hesitated. It had chosen to go public in mid-2000—after two years of existence and two quarters of selling its Visor handheld computers—to establish... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
outside the Bank One structure. From a consumer's point of view, there is no visible relationship between the two banks. While there is some pooling of technology and personnel, economies of scale are not shared between the two... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
might arise: I believe the tendency is to make across-the-board cuts, without reflecting on the company's business strategy and its relationship to the larger environment. Some companies will end up making very poor decisions that will... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
demonstrates that SFP always enables truth to speak to power safely, and in a majority of cases enables senior teams to transform silent barriers into strengths, realign their organization's design and strategic management process with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Hernando, María Luz González-Gadea, Rafael Di Tella, Agustín Ibáñez, and Mariano Sigman Abstract—Previous studies in adults demonstrated that beliefs and sharing decisions in social scenarios are closely related. However, to date, little is known about the development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50234 December 2015 Harvard Business Review What Is Disruptive Innovation? By: Christensen, Clayton M., Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald Abstract—For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
products containing the A2 protein only primarily in Australia and China. With sales of NZ$730 million in 2017 and a desire to grow, a2MC formed a strategic relationship with Fonterra, the world's sixth largest dairy company, in February... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
positive relationship between real rates and the contemporaneous valuation of volatile stocks, which we contend measures the economy’s risk appetite. Our novel proxy for risk appetite explains 41% of the variation in the one-year real... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
decades ago—hinge on a specific and therefore partial interpretation of competition. The result is an equally partial picture of the strategist's job. The problem lies not in what strategists are trained to do: Porter's perspective is powerful-so View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
examined the relationships between inventory, gross profit dollars, and gross margin return on inventory. We find that inventory is positively correlated to gross profit dollars but negatively correlated to gross margin return on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
ourselves from our experiences. Second, we progress through a finite series of universal and progressively more complex stages in how we construct our understanding. These two ideas in combination make Kegan's approach to identity development a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
made by its Board of Executive Directors. However, in any given year the majority of the Bank's member countries do not get a chance to serve on this powerful body. In this paper, we empirically investigate whether board membership leads... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
any, difference will the “New Silk Road” make in the global educational landscape? Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55549 Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 13 Platform Systems vs. Step Processes—The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
voting. Plan-making prompts are simple, inexpensive, and powerful tools for changing behavior, which preserve the autonomy of decision makers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50157 November 2015... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
we've discussed, one of the most common fates of programs to stimulate high-technology ventures is capture. Funds end up getting distributed in ways that have little to do with the needs of high-potential ventures or society more generally, but rather by the whims of... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
improvement collaboration. The results support our hypothesis that learn-how is positively related to organizational performance, as measured by NICUs' risk-adjusted mortality rates for 1,061 infant patients. Moreover, our data reveal that interdisciplinary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
power stems from its ability to identify and meet evolving customer needs, not its technology, says Thales S. Teixeira, author of the new book Unlocking the Customer Value Chain: How Decoupling Drives Consumer Disruption. The company... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
relationship between the diffusion of advanced internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from the early 1990s to the early 2000s and,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne