Standard Operating Procedures - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

relationships with their competitors affect consumers' preferences. Through a series of experiments, we show that the competitive context in which a brand operates can affect consumers' purchase interest and purchase frequency. We show... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

25 Feb 2020
News

Profits and Purpose

measure the environmental and societal impacts of companies, how we can analyze them, and then how do we standardize them to create a race to innovation instead of a race to the bottom. Because then you can actually start mobilizing... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

Heterogeneity and Redistribution Authors:Benjamin Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract Preferences over consumption and leisure play no role in the standard optimal tax model, which attributes all variation in earnings to differences... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2003
News

Business Answers the Call

be rectified.” Major changes included individualizing resource allocation and basing it on a child’s educational needs (“In Seattle, the schools with the smallest classes, the most teachers, and the most resources are the ones with the kids who are most difficult to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

of India's Public R&D Laboratories By: Khanna, Tarun, and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract—In this paper, we build on the standard resource dependence theory and its departure suggested by Vernon to offer a novel explanation for why... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2016
News

The Dragon’s Tale

with the country’s recent economic slowdown, China has more billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income, View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

attended various schools of experience. Managers who have successfully worked their way up the ladder of a stable business unit—for example, a division that manufactures standard high-volume electric motors for the appliance industry—are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

kinwun Summing Up: What are the Earmarks of a “New Economy?” Responses to this month’s column rightly focused on the need for measures and standards before deciding whether we are entering an era of social and economic change as... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

United States began to use standardized color, achieved by synthetic dyes, as part of their marketing strategies. The emergence of the synthetic dye industry paralleled the growth of mass production and mass marketing in the American food... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

As health insurance reform is hotly debated in Washington, DC, what strategies should be central for the benefit of patients' health? HBS faculty with expertise in business administration, economic development, and operations strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity

require high standards, we must understand where our standards are rooted. How do we truly activate people (instead of assuming they don’t have value to bring)? How can we create industry onramps so people can help make our industry more... View Details

03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

innovation, the team knew it was necessary to stand back and look at the big picture—to see how IBM worked now and operate it at its best in order to understand the gaps, dilemmas, and opportunities. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

world's poor live in countries where governments lack either the will or the ability to raise living standards on their own. Financial assistance to such governments, therefore, has often not helped their neediest citizens. In fact, in... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

power involves three components: respect for legitimate expectations, procedural fairness, and distributional fairness. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315067-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 115-023 Hoag... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2019
News

Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

out in his HBS admission essay: “When I graduate,” Sulyman wrote, “I'm going to go back to Africa and lead a technology company that is creating massive impact that will propel Africa into the future.” Today, Sulyman is carrying out that vision as vice president of... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

The Exchange: Micro Management

spend the money and its impact on their businesses and their livelihoods.” How are these findings shaping your work? Roth: There are two strands of research that form the basis of our conviction about how microfinance could do better. One is about the timing of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

Coast operations and its West Coast computer people would severely affect the company. The focus for much of this division was PARC. In the 1970s, PARC was remarkably successful in developing ingenious products that would fundamentally... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

17 Sep 2018
Blog Post

My Summer as a Venture Capitalist

me some standard interview questions, but then they asked, “what do you hope to learn and work on specifically?” I replied, “I want to source deals, see deal diligence, and work on investment theme development – specifically on enterprise... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

07 Sep 2021
News

Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11

then-prevailing HBS model—since amended—where speaking in class was essential to earning high grades, Frances was not insisting we stick to standard operating procedure. She was trusting each of us to know... View Details

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

on average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic patent trolls. NPEs sue cash-rich firms—a one standard deviation increase in cash holdings roughly doubles a firm's chance of being targeted by NPE litigation. We find moreover that NPEs... View Details