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- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
private benefits. Trade policy provides a source of exogenous price variation to test this proposition: higher tariffs should lead to more vertical integration; moreover, ownership structures should be more alike across countries with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
BrightStar. As franchises began to sell, Sun quickly set about building scalable operations and infrastructure, including a centralized technology function and custom software for franchisees. As more and more locations View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
intelligent software for efficient order delivery, and a customer friendly online interface. Ocado's customer base had expanded beyond the wealthy to include middle-income consumers; even with a delivery charge, grocery shopping through... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
world’s longest banana split. That really stuck with me. So, in 2005, when EF was opening its first adult professional English-language school in Shanghai, I suggested we try to break the record for the longest continuous English class.... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
threat—it can also reveal significant underlying heterogeneity in the old technology's broader demand environment. This heterogeneity is a source of opportunities that can support a new position for the old technology, in either the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
That includes, especially, an understanding of the open standards process through which the Internet was built, with engineers stacking one set of open protocols on top of another from the physical—how you... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
toward Silicon Valley; in the euphoria that drove Internet stocks to unbelievable heights; in the intrusion of e-mail and surfing and "dot.com" everything. At a more profound level, it is also clear that this revolution will seriously affect both business and... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
the browser market. Because different browsers require slightly different code to be viewable, it is costly for Webmasters to write for different types of browsers. They will tend to pick the browser that is most used by the majority of end-users. Thus, the View Details
- 19 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating our Student Fathers
Raegan, and I are celebrating my first Father’s Day by attending the final round of the US Open Championship at The Country Club in Brookline, MA. Ashley and I have enjoyed golfing together over the years and we look forward to getting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
many MBAs more concerned with personal wealth than social value, notes Kenny. The Economist, too, has its flaws. Critics note that 80 percent of its rankings are based on unaudited data submitted by the participating schools. That leaves the door wide View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
in Enfield, Connecticut, to discuss partnering on a promotion. “It was easily the coolest company visit I’d ever been on,” Moynihan says. When LEGO approached him about an opening in its marketing department, he didn’t hesitate. Eight... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
opened my eyes to what one could do.” Straight shooter: “My first assignment at Xerox was to help take the company into China. When the chairman announced in the press what we were doing, I chastised him and said that was not something he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
(“Rocky”) Aoki fell in love with New York City. The son of a restaurateur in Japan, Aoki eventually opened his own four-table unit in Manhattan in 1964 and called it Benihana (after a Japanese flower), the name of his father’s first... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
competitiveness, because innovation and entrepreneurship are the source of our strength, not low-cost labor. And innovation and entrepreneurship require open minds. They require challenging the paradigm and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
mostly unskilled. They created molds for soles and other components that then could be shipped elsewhere for production. As a result, the local workforce dropped by 15 percent between 2006 and 2012. "What happens in some contexts is that you no longer have to be close... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
formidable challenges, Iyer found that Hollywood's efforts in India are far from a lost cause, noting that all these problems can be addressed if a studio understands India and develops a coherent strategy, as did Fox Star Studios. After some effort, Iyer persuaded Fox... View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water
opportunities while building a sizable and informed network of people dedicated to water, water health, water risk, water education or water-related challenges. The more that I learn about water, the more I realize I have so much more to learn.” Before his recent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
writes, “is a car stuck in a rut: Managers put the pedal to the metal and dig the rut deeper.” In Revival of the Fittest, he offers managers the tools and frameworks they need to get their organizations rolling once again. — Deborah Blagg View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
providing an additional source of revenue, but reduces consumer demand for the service. We characterize equilibrium information provision, disclosure levels, and prices and show that competition with privacy has several effects on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne