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- 07 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Innovation in Asia
organizational structures that will help them compete globally. We have moved from 'manufactured in China' to 'designed in China.'— John Deng, Vimicro Pramathesh Rath, India's consul general in New York, emphasized that India is quickly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
places such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore factor Feng shui into the design and construction of buildings, because its principles are widely known to make work less tedious and human interactions more harmonious, and to... View Details
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The Competition - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
combined but that the beauty of surroundings actually possess[es] a utilitarian value. The Harvard Business School should be able by its structure to embody this truth for many who otherwise would fail to grasp it.” The New York Times,... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
depending on the characteristics of the applications market. Second, giving open access to one side in a proprietary platform may lead to fewer users and developers and to lower investment, relative to a platform with closed access to both sides. Third, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
"These social resources are acquired by mimicking the structures and activities of established firms, and by affiliating with high-status customers respectively," she wrote in the abstract to her recent paper, Great Oaks from... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
achieving results across the entire system, moving from planning to action and ensuring fidelity of implementation on such an enormous scale is very difficult. Redesigning the structures and systems of a district so that they are coherent... View Details
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Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems - Course Catalog
presentation is made to a component of the private equity firm investment committee. Project work is designed to be of mutual value to students and the PE partner. Students can list the projects and the PE firm on their resumes upon the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
We are at the dawn of a new epoch in the world of science, one that will cast strong light on a unique corner of the biotechnology field known as genomics. The designation refers to the study of genes, those chemical building blocks of... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
relationship that favored all parties. We discuss implications for research in the economics and management of MSPs. Specifically, we argue that the literature would benefit from work that endogenizes platform design and that considers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
occupations, the creative act has received limited attention as an economic behavior and has historically proven difficult to study. This paper studies the incentive effects of competition on individuals' creative production. Using a sample of commercial logo View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
and private venture funds. Corporate efforts lack the partnership-based organizational structure that many have identified as critical to the success of private equity funds. On the other hand, corporations are able to exploit... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization Authors:Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart, and Michael Tushman Publication:Organization Science Abstract Homophily in social relations results from both individual preferences and selective... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
and Work Symposium. The Structured World and the Self Elizabeth Haines Elizabeth Haines, Professor of Psychology at William Paterson University, presents "Why so Sticky?" at the 2017 Gender and Work Symposium. Elizabeth Haines, Professor... View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
Back in 2001, I wanted to test some theoretical predictions about negotiations versus auctions. At the time I was co-course head for the first-year required course on Negotiation at HBS, so I designed an elaborate experiment that used all... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
network effects Articulate ways network structure can influence a platform’s ability to scale or defend itself against competitors Consider how a platform might increase profitability by changing its network clustering View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
that allocates capacity efficiently. Although downstream firms have symmetric production technologies, we show that industry structure is symmetric only if capacity is sufficiently scarce. Otherwise it is asymmetric, with one large,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10
participating in defined benefit (DB) pension plans. This note compares and contrasts the United Kingdom's Pension Protection Fund (PPF) with the United States' Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to illustrate the implications of poorly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
China‘s income inequality has risen rapidly over that same time frame, Vietnam‘s has only grown moderately. Structural and socio-cultural determinants fail to account for these divergent pathways. Existing political variables are also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog
the critical insights, frameworks and tools needed. Graduates will be well-positioned for roles that demand a deep understanding of leading and scaling social enterprises and designing and implementing solutions that drive measurable... View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
transformation" of large firms. What are some of the challenges you've faced, he asked the panelists, as you've tried to start new ventures inside of companies? The biggest challenge, said Dipender Saluja, who leads a thousand-person technical services venture... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss