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- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
experimentation ex-post and one that funds experimental projects ex-ante. In equilibrium it is possible that all competing financiers choose to offer failure-tolerant contracts to attract entrepreneurs, leaving no capital to fund the most... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
Does it work? And for firms in countries that pursue that route: How do they make it work? "My research questions include: Were Latin American countries right to avoid share privatizations? What accounts for the apparent success of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
sponsorship. With respect to end users and complementors, decisions to open or close a mature platform involve 1) backward compatibility with prior platform generations; 2) securing exclusive rights to certain complements; or 3) absorbing... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
public. Boaty blowback highlights the potential danger of giving consumers the power to vote, even though customer engagement is a primary goal of almost every social media strategy. The problem: Even though NERC never explicitly promised... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
no competitive advantage and, accordingly, no upturn in the bottom line. At the other end of the spectrum, Upton continued, is the do-it-yourself approach, which prevailed among manufacturers for many years. "You'd hire an army of coders to create software that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from gay... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
created, of which 100 had already moved to the company's conventional R&D funnel. Thirty-four had been short-listed for further consideration. At least 10, if not more of these projects, would receive "landmark" funding running at an average of 1 million... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
service. Rubicon had made great progress since introducing its service. They had signed up large multi-national customers and had a number of large potential contracts in the negotiation phase. The team needed more capital to build out... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
salient, and so understanding these dynamics will be helpful for researchers addressing institutional isomorphism and change. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-034.pdf PublicationsEntrepreneurship and Global View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
Chu, Joe Lassiter, and Mike Roberts. Initially, Sahlman recalls, there was some resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA '96) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner's Venture View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Business Review What’s the Right Kind of Bonus to Motivate Your Sales Force? By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—Companies typically compensate their sales force by using some combination of salary, commission, and bonuses,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
and new construction. On the other hand, well-managed public-private partnerships, where the private sector funds, builds, and operates key public infrastructure, can shift the capital requirement from municipalities to the private... View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
economist herself, delve into the phenomenon in their paper Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies, forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. “Inside tech firms there’s a huge competition for talent right now,” Athey... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
version. Still, Kanter wonders, "Has there been sufficient time for the influencers to get used to this and help other people get used to it? And why launch on October 26? There's a lot going on in the world right now." 4.... View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
anything having to do with globalization. But in 2006, some new areas of HBS faculty research began to emerge that also struck a chord with readers. These included the business of open source, how network effects impact everything from venture View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
frequently sprouting up were right along the GQ project, and they were not along other highways that weren’t being developed or were in more rural locations. With that background, we began talking with Ramana about interesting questions... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
The Supreme Court has spoken, and its ruling last Friday has evoked myriad responses from across the United States—from the far right to the far left, from small businesses to giant corporations, from pundits to the person on the street.... View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
with economies of scale in merchandising, marketing, and distribution. To ensure standardization, Wal-Mart sets the span of control for store managers at the "narrow" end of the scale. Although they nominally control their stores, Wal-Mart site managers have... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
can swipe right or left on a profile to indicate her interest in a potential match. The case is designed to explore issues related to pricing, market design, and launch strategies in the context of online marketplaces. Students are asked... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
homogeneous capital stock," according to the paper. To that end, Sadun and her fellow researchers set out to show how—and why—managers need to consider the very different organizational effects of communication and information... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel