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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Information Technology
and entrepreneurs. Robert Graham Dun, head of the Mercantile Agency from 1859 to his death in 1900, was one of the first to perceive the business potential of the typewriter. A commercially successful model had been in production since 1867, but most saw it as little... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
consistent with the slowdown associated with "social loafing"; (3) a patient's stay is up to 10.2% shorter when there is a high incoming load of predictable patients, consistent with workload smoothing. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
of approximately $4.52 billion (five times greater than that of its nearest competitor, Fisher Price), and the company has been hailed as a growth champion. Hear more from company cochairman Jørgen Vig Knudstorp on how Lego balances View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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The Art of "Posting" - The Art of American Advertising
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections Visual Resources More Exhibits Exhibition Gallery Research Links Site Credits The Art of American Advertising: The Art of “Posting” National Markets Advertising Products Trade Catalogs Trade Cards Souvenirs & View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
Abstract—The Food and Drug Administration approves new medical devices after in-depth reviews of safety and effectiveness data. Some have advocated for shorter review times to encourage innovation. We evaluated whether regulatory review time and product View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections Visual Resources More Exhibits Exhibition Gallery Research Links Site Credits The Art of American Advertising: Trade Catalogs National Markets Advertising Products Trade Catalogs Trade Cards Souvenirs & View Details
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
She backs it up with extensive research, much of it her own. Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, builds her book around the “five core elements of rebel talent.” They are: Novelty... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
users are the opposite; they are looking for variety and willing to pay extra for it. "Many recreational users come in from out-of-state and enjoy the novelty of the shopping experience—and the cost structure goes up if you offer a... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
despite rates comparable to or better than those offered in this country. Deighton and Barwise also warn that interacting digitally with marketers may not remain a favorite use of consumers' scarce leisure time, especially after the View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
vividly before me.” 63 Western merchants captured their day-to-day existence in detailed descriptions of life in China. “First our long voyage, then the novelty of finding myself in a strange land, and among a strange and most singular... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
virtually any metropolitan center these days, unsecured “hot spots” can be found and exploited. It is, he says, an example of “the twin–headed dilemma of new technology — introducing better productivity and novelty into the workplace... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
quality of innovation scaled strongly with firm size, innovation novelty was considerably more invariant to firm size across both breakthrough eras. While there is some evidence of firm-level heterogeneity as a determinant of the scale... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53705 Developing Novel Drugs By: Krieger, Joshua, Danielle Li, and Dimitris Papanikolaou Abstract—We analyze firms' decisions to invest in incremental and radical innovation, focusing specifically on pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
novelty but are meaningfully reduced by the publication of objective regulatory guidelines. Finally, I consider how the regulatory process affects small firms' market entry strategies and find that small firms are less likely to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
chips. But the 1990 priority date, retained from the original application, meant that the novelty of these claims was evaluated relative to the "prior art" of a decade earlier. In a rapidly evolving field such as semiconductors,... View Details
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
work with leaders who are committed to driving change and creating impact that spans all three. In its 25th anniversary year, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative celebrated its pioneering role as the first business school to have a center for social impact. This was... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
made each week to the grocery store, druggist, or dry cleaners. The Lauders hoped to use the novelty and leisurely enjoyment that women connected with upscale department stores to demonstrate their products and stimulate impulse buying.... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
situations, ranging from what we will call “routine emergencies” through “crises,” differentiated by increasing degrees of novelty in the emergency challenge. Leaders and their organizations must develop capacities for managing in both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
People who know how to build and run a really solid business can be super successful even without a truly novel idea. What gets the business started is not the novelty of the products. It’s understanding how you build local distribution,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
growth. While I expected this based on theoretical frameworks, we have come to associate entrepreneurship with novelty so strongly that I was nevertheless surprised to see that mimicry was beneficial even to young firms that typically do... View Details