Technology Cycles - Publications - Faculty & Research

2011
Working Paper

From Single Deals to Negotiation Campaigns

Negotiation scholars typically take the individual deal, or a few linked deals, as the unit of analysis. While analyzing one deal requires a familiar conceptual framework, doing the same for a broader "negotiation campaign" calls for a different focus and set of... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Framework; Business Subsidiaries; Agreements and Arrangements; Mergers and Acquisitions; Information Management; Finance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Business and Government Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues

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2022
Working Paper

Small Campaign Donors

By: Laurent Bouton, Julia Cagé, Edgard Dewitte and Vincent Pons

In this paper, we study the characteristics and behavior of small donors, and compare them to those of large donors. We first build a novel dataset including all the 340 million individual contributions reported to the U.S. Federal Election Commission between 2005 and... View Details

Keywords: Campaign Finance; Campaign Contributions; Small Donations; ActBlue; WinRed; TV Advertising; Political Elections; Finance; Demographics; Advertising; Analysis; Analytics and Data Science

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25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

years, as society's insights on how to use the technology changed. It is worth noting that although these technologies mutated significantly (for trains, it meant moving from fifteen miles an hour to eighty... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

Again Rohit Deshpande, Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing. ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN Tip: Use technology to scale your organization to current conditions An old canard applies to today's environment: Nobody notices information View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Research

The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details

18 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been near the top of the technology-hype lists for years. In 2018, Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies ranked IoT platforms as cresting the “peak of inflated... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

talk less about how we can encourage positive spillovers." Creating virtuous cycles like FOSS involves rewiring existing market inefficiencies, which produce too many negative side effects and too few positive ones, Nagle says. It’s an... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

And so, there’s a lot of uncertainty around crypto; and in times of overall financial market uncertainty, people pull away from riskier assets. At the same time, a lot of the basic technology investment and entrepreneurship in crypto is... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology; Technology

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

square foot have not improved significantly since the depths of the recession—and the decline in ROIC is even more stunning for category killers. “Best Buy and many similar businesses didn't see the bullet coming” The inexorable adoption of View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

15 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

countries and the future role of technological innovation in international efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, amongst many other issues. Publisher's Link: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=383865 Is Life... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

which managers can acquire new knowledge, skills, perspective, and judgment. People should look for jobs in which they can leverage initial fit to establish a self-reinforcing cycle of success whereby, year after year, they acquire more... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

either in the Toyota system or at sites that have successfully transformed themselves, there is a palpable, positive difference in the attitude of people that is coupled with exceptional performance along critical business measures such as quality, cost, safety, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51635 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital By: Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—We study how View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2015
First Look

December 15, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50187 Capital Requirements, Risk Choice, and Liquidity Provision in a Business Cycle Model By: Begenau, Juliane Abstract—This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

the right times. They'd done it by implementing techniques and technologies at an unprecedented pace; among them, the lean production method introduced by W. Edwards Deming, just-in-time manufacturing, single-source suppliers, and global... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

business services team effectiveness, and overall case experience. It is becoming part of the culture—the future of BCG." The Cycle Of Responsiveness: The Root Of The 24/7 Habit The reason PTO can be so effective for both... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

deciding between pursuing a community- or a market-based innovation model: The nature of the innovation problem at hand. Where the firm is in its technology life cycle may drive its choices. Mature View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

—End-users have no mechanism enabling effective procurement through uniform templates, which can be contextually linked to government authorized schedules. This often causes a nonsensical lengthening of the purchasing cycle whereby most... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

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