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  • June 2020
  • Article

Parallel Play: Startups, Nascent Markets, and the Effective Design of a Business Model

By: Rory McDonald and Kathleen Eisenhardt
Prior research advances several 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: Search; Legitimacy; Organizational Innovation; Organizational Learning; Mechanisms And Processes; Institutional Entrepreneurship; Qualitative Methods; Business Model Design; Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Adaptation; Competition; Strategy
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  • 2006
  • Working Paper

The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination

By: Eric J. Van den Steen

This paper studies the effects of open disagreement on motivation and coordination. It shows how, in the presence of differing priors, motivation and coordination impose conflicting demands on the allocation of authority, leading to a trade-off between the... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Governance Controls; Organizational Culture; Agency Theory; Conflict and Resolution; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

beholder. You either learn what it is from your parents or you'll never get it." Instead, professors use theory and examples to teach future business leaders why value is important and how to create an organization that fosters value... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 15 Sep 2015
  • News

Easing the Costs of Saving a Child

When Kerr Taylor (OPM 39, 2010) and his wife, Jill, returned from Russia in 1998 with his adopted baby girl, Christina, another child remained in his thoughts: a blue-eyed little boy named Andrew left behind in the orphanage. “He’s in my View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

often buttress the existing social contract. When the wrong minds meet. Sometimes problems arise not because of cultural differences but instead because the right people are not involved in negotiations. For... View Details
Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius
  • 17 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions

Keywords: by Alvin E. Roth
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • News

Working to Improve the End of Life

to convince other people that something is right. It wasn't a matter of learning facts and figures. It was learning how to use my mind to find solutions.” (Published January 2019) View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Protecting against the Erosion of Brand Value

Noble’s foray into publishing cause brand-name publishers heartburn? “Through the lenses of our theories of strategy and innovation, the answer is — emphatically — yes,” write... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business

Organizations and Markets unit (see Theory and Practice for a profile of the O&M unit) quickly sparked discussion in two different areas. Noting that the unit's Coordination, Control, and the Management... View Details
  • 08 Jun 2011
  • News

George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees

Singapore, I remember the cases I did on energy deregulation in the U.S., the whole theory of marginal pricing, and so on. It was very helpful.” Summing up his HBS experience, Yeo told the Times, “I learned... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • Article

Measurement of Productivity Improvements: An Empirical Analysis

By: R. Banker, S. Datar and M. Rajan
Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Theory
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  • November 2022
  • Article

Impacts of Micromobility on Car Displacement with Evidence from a Natural Experiment and Geofencing Policy

By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Camila Apablaza, M. Cade Lawson, Edward W Chen and Savannah J Horner
Micromobility, such as electric scooters and electric bikes—an estimated US$300 billion global market by 2030—will accelerate electrification efforts and fundamentally change urban mobility patterns. However, the impacts of micromobility adoption on traffic congestion... View Details
Keywords: City; Policy; Transportation; Sustainable Cities
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Is the Moral Domain Unique?: A Social Influence Perspective for the Study of Moral Cognition

By: J. Lees and F. Gino
The nature of the cognitive processes that give rise to moral judgment and behavior has been a central question of psychology for decades. In this paper, we suggest that an often ignored yet fruitful stream of research for informing current debates on the nature of... View Details
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Social Psychology
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  • Working Paper

Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry

By: Dominika Kinga Randle and Gary P. Pisano
An enduring trait of modern corporations is their propensity to diversify into multiple lines of business. Penrosian theories conceptualize diversification as a strategy to exploit a firm’s fungible, yet “untradeable,” resources and point to redeployment of... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Adoption; Diversification; Market Entry and Exit; Transformation
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  • 30 Jan 2006
  • HBS Case

The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand

"Patterson understands that if you want shelf space you need to publish a lot of books; that you need a production system with more than one author; and that you need to mind the brand." The case... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

practices designed to promulgate a particular culture, commitment to diversity, strategy for corporate involvement, and other core elements of City Year's theory of social... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 05 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

as a reward for his years of loyal service. (Never mind that he has no Internet business experience; he surfs the Web, doesn't he?) Find the simplest, least-demanding thing you can do on the Web. Go for... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 14 Jun 2021
  • Op-Ed

When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative

focusing on the class I was about to lead, my mind turned to all the ways I fell short: my lack of consulting experience, my greenness as a teacher, my weird accent, my degree from an institution that was... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

We have to recalibrate our minds in terms of why we’re doing remote work now.  In this moment of panic, when companies and workers are trying to figure out how to be productive... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

Industrial Revolution were center stage, scholars can then develop new concepts of growth and adjust existing theories of institutional change based on the commercialization... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products