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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
solved those problems. Data analysts could identify those individuals in key districts most likely to respond and then call them during congressional working hours. An operator could offer to patch a voter through after providing some View Details
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
Science. The paper was authored by Stefan Dimitriadis, a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School; Matthew Lee, an assistant professor of strategy at INSEAD; Lakshmi Ramarajan, the Anna Spangler... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
"What I’ve said that turned out to be right will be considered obvious, and what was wrong will be humorous" —Bill Gates, The Road Ahead, 1995 In 2001, I wrote a book explaining why accelerated growth strategies created value for some... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
controlling the flow of the investment. For an example of what we mean, let's look at Teradyne, the maker of semiconductor test equipment. In 1997, the company was confronted with an important innovation: the application of CMOS chip... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
vulnerable to serial correlation in the error structure. We discuss the associated biases and present a robust set of moment conditions for both lagged dependent and predetermined explanatory variables. Furthermore, we show that conventional View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
the richest breeding grounds for coding superstars: the hackathon. These high-pressure weekend events of furious engineering can be an incredible environment for diffusion of knowledge, argues Andy Wu, an assistant professor in the View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
improvements will be exhibited by those shamed firms that face lower-cost opportunities to improve—-and thus are particularly able to respond. We take advantage of a natural experiment, when a major social rating agency expanded the scope of its ratings, to empirically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2007
- Op-Ed
How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Last month, Boeing stock went wobbly on news that View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
innovation strategy as a pyramid: big bets at the top, a few projects in development in the middle, and a broad base of continuous improvements, incremental contributions, and early-stage new ideas at the bottom. For example, Verizon... View Details
- 29 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
3 Insights from My First Year at HBS
business in emerging markets based during my Tanzania consulting engagement (and broader personal experiences). It was well received by both my classmates and professors. 2. I Learned about Purpose Driven Leadership During our leadership, marketing, View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
Executives must adjust the span of control for each key position and unit on the basis of how the company delivers value to customers. Consider Wal-Mart, which has configured its entire organization to deliver low prices. Wal-Mart's View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
communities) and the moderating effects of team leader experience. We test our moderated mediation model in a sample of 121 teams that filed patents in a Fortune 50 company’s India R&D center between 2005 and 2015 using proprietary... View Details
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
sponsor of the National Math and Science Initiative, helped to scale two projects: one focusing on improved training for science, technology, and math teachers, the other on improving advanced placement test results in the same areas.... View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
tied to their competitors via shared intermediary organizations. To test our theory, we examine every relationship between entrepreneurial firms and their venture capital investors in the minimally invasive surgical segment of the medical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
entry is an important trait of well-functioning capital markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-033.pdf Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
learn some lessons from the limited success of current approaches to design their strategy in this exciting area. Do You Really Want to Be an eBay? Authors:Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Publication:Harvard Business Review Abstract Most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
architecture. In particular, we draw upon modular systems theory to develop and test a series of propositions about the impact of component coupling on the cost of IT change. Our methods make use of “Design Structure Matrices” (DSMs), a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Turning Point: Sparking Change
Gillette, Pillsbury, and L’Oréal. In 2001, I launched The ComfortCake Company, selling pound cakes based on my original recipes to customers ranging from United Airlines to Walmart. But teaching was always at the back of my mind as a potential profession—the... View Details
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
comparative consumer product reviews since 1936. The publication ranks competitive brands according to quality, based on in-house testing and customer surveys, and publishes the products' retail prices. "Decades of data, just staring... View Details