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- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
important part of how businesses operate, and that can only increase going forward.” “Increasingly, the tech architectures inside firms are a source of competitive advantage.” In a new industry and background note written with HBS research associate Matt Higgins, the... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
tremendous things,” Iansiti says. “If you go after a static, traditional environment and drive a new model of competition, you’re going to do really well. Take Google and advertising, or take Amazon and retail, and you can see organizations that have applied a View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
a fundamental question is, are these being driven by what economists would call taste—‘I like red people and don’t like green people’—or is it driven by beliefs—‘it’s not that I don’t like them per se, I just don’t think we can trust... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
is based on network graphs and allows us to identify/define three fundamental architectural patterns, which we label core-periphery, multi-core, and hierarchical. Applying our methodology to a sample of 1,286 software releases from 17... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
tailor their risk management processes to these different risk categories. A rules-based approach is effective for managing preventable risks, whereas strategy risks require a fundamentally different approach based on open and explicit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
If you want to become good at early-stage investing, you need to learn how to size up the fundamental elements of an opportunity. Many investors use checklists or think of evaluation as a process of judging an entrepreneur, or an idea, or... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
fundamental intellectual capital for the industry. Even without doing very much of the basic research, however, other firms were still registering large numbers of patents." What's going on here? The research cycle, it seems, has... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
recently, stripped of your military title. This type of situation serves as a strong disincentive for anyone who has already achieved a certain social status to go the entrepreneurial route. While these four points are critical for entrepreneurship, there's another... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
fundamental to improving accuracy. Even more important, knowing the margin of error on a forecast is vital to being able to react when the forecast is wrong. For example, if past forecasts for a certain product have been wrong by plus or... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
instance — is what the researchers call the intramedia decision. Here there is considerably more price sensitivity and a greater willingness to reallocate expenditures. A fundamental question bearing on rivalry in the advertising industry... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
States will soon find a broad solution. In fact, when it comes to skilled immigration, our research shows more support for minor changes to the current system than for more fundamental reforms. Over two-thirds of alumni supported... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
risen to economic and business prominence in many industries. This paper first lays out a simple micro-founded framework that aims to organize academic and managerial thinking about MSPs. It argues that any MSP performs one or both among two View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Experimentation By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—The fundamental uncertainty of new technologies at their earliest stages implies that it is virtually impossible to know the true potential of a venture without learning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
of the grandest experiment in cross-border supranational cooperation. A vision founded on Europe’s fundamental values of freedom, democracy, rule of law, and respect for human dignity. It is time for a rethink; it is time for Europe 2.0.... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of overvaluation. The two signals are in conflict, and investors “waver” over time in the relative weight they put on them. The model predicts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
"We suffer through an extremely aged and outdated infrastructure," he said. "We will struggle with two fundamental questions: How do we collectively own something so critical to our shared prosperity? And how do we make... View Details
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
peacetime. With the total economic as well as political-military collapse of the Nationalist regime, the new PRC had a potentially wide range of economic policy options. Its actual choices, however, were narrowed by the ideological conviction that China was in need of... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-148.pdf PublicationsOpen to Negotiation: Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination Authors:Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Phenomenological... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
becomes evident that digital communications will fundamentally reshape the way businesses market, and often deliver, goods and services. The current communications revolution is hardly the first to be encountered by marketers. Prior... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
the firm's walls: customers. It is riskier economically and organizationally to adopt. "The thing that struck me right away was that e-buying and e-selling for the firms in my sample were fundamentally different activities," McElheran... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish