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- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
for anything where the prior art is known," explains Prithwiraj Choudhury, an assistant professor in the Technology, Operations, and Management unit at Harvard Business School. "But when a Western firm goes to a Western... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
Casadesus-Masanell decided to dive in. Most research to date into the OSS movement has focused on the organization and management issues surrounding OSS. Ghemawat and Casadesus-Masanell chose to explore the fundamental competitive... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
technology, at Eventide Asset Management in Boston. I'm always looking for companies developing new energy technologies and industries across America, including in West Virginia." Christine: "I was a 2020-21 HBS Leadership Fellow and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
sometimes be skirted, frauds sometimes perpetrated, society’s resources misallocated, and the environment sometimes damaged. Managements are sometimes tolerated or even embraced who should not be—managements preoccupied with... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
of technology. It reviews some opportunities for innovation that will solve the pain points and bottlenecks facing the system and outlines high-priority policy areas. It becomes clear that individual airlines have often been managed back... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
couldn't still succeed, says John Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a professor of health policy and management at Harvard School of Public Health. The sheer scope of the... View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
to and efficiency of irrigation, utility control and monitoring software." She added “leak detection,” “water treatment,” and “infrastructure” to the list and noted, “our aging infrastructure struggles to efficiently deliver clean water and View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
forthcoming Management Science Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We provide the first large-sample evidence on the behavior and impact of nonpracticing entities... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
In the midst of this crisis, VHSS, the German Shipbroker's Association, introduced a proposal to value ships using discounted cash flow analysis (to determine a long-term asset value, LTAV) rather than market prices from comparable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
available to its customer-facing employees. In the spring of 2003, Bankinter introduced an Excel-based program called the Mortgage Simulator that helped branch managers calculate the price of a mortgage and estimate the customer lifetime... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
five minutes or so.” Fast-forward 37 years, and that same roadway is 10-lanes wide and jammed with traffic from 7:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. During more than 70 visits to China, McFarlan has watched the leaders of a nation... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
support the creation of highly differentiated products. It also deals with issues of change in an already successful context, and of managing highly creative staff who are vital to a company's business model. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
being able to put the team in place," as she put it, Polished could not take root. But by last December, Polished seemed closer to its initial destination. Rhyne had secured a lease at Boston's Logan Airport, begun building the first Polished center, added an... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
identifying value stocks.” Wang teamed up with Ki-Soon Choi and Eric C. So from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management to author the new research, entitled Going by the Book: Valuation Ratios and Stock... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design
largest pump manufacturer in the world, headquartered in Bjerringbro, Denmark. Grundfos shared the same ecosystem of energy, material, and waste flows with other companies we visited. For example, Grundfos pumps installed in Denmark are... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
flow to reforming countries as a consequence of reforms and may give policy makers working at agencies like the U.S. Trade Representative's Office some helpful facts to bring to the negotiating table. Multinational View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
business initiatives, we find that firms engage in a dynamic process of managing contradictory boundary activities. Boundaries between differentiated units are reinforced to enable exploitation and exploration, while corporate boundary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
computational problems, to manage the transaction flow in this context. I take your word that the code is transparent, but it’s not at all clear to me. To what degree is the inherent complexity of this... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
discovered that the error was made a year before when it had reconfigured a scanner to improve doctors’ ability to see blood flow in the brain. More than 200 patients had suffered the same fate, receiving up to eight times the normal dose... View Details