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  • 22 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

geographic office location," Stuart says. Although the research doesn't try to answer why corporate silos are so difficult to tear down, Stuart hopes the data will help managers understand, pinpoint, and remove bottlenecks within their... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

2017 Advances in Strategic Management Geography, Location, and Strategy By: Alcácer, Juan, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas, and Bernard Yin Yeung, eds. Abstract—Changes in both View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Time and the Value of Data

By: Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani and Marco Iansiti

Managers often believe that collecting more data will continually improve the accuracy of their machine learning models. However, we argue in this paper that when data lose relevance over time, it may be optimal to collect a limited amount of recent data instead of... View Details

Keywords: Economics Of AI; Machine Learning; Non-stationarity; Perishability; Value Depreciation; Analytics and Data Science; Value
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  • 28 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

consequences like discrimination." A 2015 study by Luca and colleagues Benjamin Edelman, now an economist at Microsoft, and Dan Svirsky, an economist at Uber, used booking... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service
  • May 2018 (Revised October 2020)
  • Supplement

La Ribera Health Department (B): Epilogue

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Emer Moloney and Daniela Beyersdorfer
The La Ribera case studies depict an innovative low cost/high quality privately financed hospital model struggling to achieve alignment with the Six Factors. It is reimbursed by the public sector in a Spanish environment whose Consumers, Structure, and Public Policy... View Details
Keywords: Trends And Opportunities; Government; Government Programs; Acquisition; Business Model; Business Plan; Trends; Opportunities; Government and Politics; Programs; Health Care and Treatment; Situation or Environment; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Spain
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  • 16 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

Flows By: Horton, John, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

coauthor of the new book Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, for an intimate, powerful conversation that touches on: the mistake people make in thinking that money, power, View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff

    Thomas R. Eisenmann

    Thomas R. Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; Peter O. Crisp Faculty Chair, Harvard Innovation Labs; and Unit Head of the HBS Entrepreneurial... View Details

    Keywords: high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Entrepreneurs and the Co-Creation of Ecotourism in Costa Rica

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora
    Between the 1970s and the 2000s, Costa Rica became established as the world’s leading ecotourism destination. This working paper suggests that although Costa Rica benefited from biodiversity and a pleasant climate, the country’s preeminence in ecotourism requires more... View Details
    Keywords: Tourism; Latin America; Business History; Sustainable Strategy; Sustainability; Nonprofit; Entrepreneurs; Environment; Entrepreneurship; History; Environmental Sustainability; Tourism Industry; Costa Rica
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    • 02 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    Women, Work, and the "M" Word

    entrepreneurial path into healthcare. I wondered what would be possible if we thought about women’s health more expansively and holistically, beyond avoiding or achieving pregnancy. I entered the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life View Details
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Platform Information Provision and Consumer Search: A Field Experiment

    By: Lu Fang, Yanyou Chen, Chiara Farronato, Zhe Yuan and Yitong Wang
    Despite substantial efforts to help consumers search in more intuitive ways, text search remains the predominant tool for product discovery online. In this paper, we explore the effects of visual and textual cues for search refinement on consumer search and purchasing... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Behavior; E-commerce; Decision Choices and Conditions; Learning; Internet and the Web
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    • 08 Dec 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

    being conducted and the location. For example, doing cross-border clinical trials in Western Europe can be a nightmare of paperwork, Llana said. But trials can be much easier in Eastern Europe. As to career opportunities, Wellner said... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology
    • 28 Dec 2021
    • News

    SpaceX’s Future Depends on a Gigantic Rocket and 42,000 Internet Satellites

    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    The Cram Method for Efficient Simultaneous Learning and Evaluation

    By: Zeyang Jia, Kosuke Imai and Michael Lingzhi Li
    We introduce the "cram" method, a general and efficient approach to simultaneous learning and evaluation using a generic machine learning (ML) algorithm. In a single pass of batched data, the proposed method repeatedly trains an ML algorithm and tests its empirical... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning
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    • 01 Dec 1996
    • News

    Starting Up and Starting Over

    innovation within such a structure. In the 1930s and 1940s, Deans Wallace B. Donham and Donald K. David oversaw significant research on the importance of innovators to business. Much of this material was... View Details
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Navigating Software Vulnerabilities: Eighteen Years of Evidence from Medium and Large U.S. Organizations

    By: Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Ran Zhuo and Shane Greenstein
    How prevalent are severe software vulnerabilities, how fast do software users respond to the availability of secure versions, and what determines the variance in the installation distribution? Using the largest dataset ever assembled on user updates, tracking server... View Details
    Keywords: Cybersecurity; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Consumer Behavior
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    • April 1996 (Revised June 1996)
    • Background Note

    Cleveland Turnaround (C), The: Facts and Figures

    By: James E. Austin and Jaan Elias
    Traces the Cleveland community's efforts to move the city from economic, social, and political crisis in the late 1970s into revitalization and progress in the 1980s and 1990s. Special attention is given to the role of business leaders and the public-private... View Details
    Keywords: Leading Change; Analytics and Data Science; Economic Growth; Business and Community Relations; Cleveland
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    • Article

    Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane
    We study competitive interaction between two alternative models of digital content distribution over the Internet: peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing and centralized client-server distribution. We present microfoundations for a stylized model of p2p file sharing where all... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Distribution; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Strategy; Profit; Price; Performance Efficiency
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    • 2023
    • Article

    Moral Escalation: Contested Category Emergence and Its Consequences in the Toy Industry

    By: Ryann Noe
    Preexisting research has outlined the cognitive, competitive, and economic barriers to market category emergence. Yet scholars have paid scant attention to the processes and consequences of moral resistance to nascent categories. Through a longitudinal, qualitative... View Details
    Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Market Entry and Exit; Product Positioning; Technology Industry; Technology Industry
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    • Fast Answer

    Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research

    industry rather than company analyst reports. Market Research BCC Research Reports on major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical, View Details