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  • 15 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

treats market share as the result of building better cars more cheaply than its competitors, and not as an objective in and of itself. Its globalization has actually been driven by a complex array of coordination mechanisms across... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

    John C. Mulliken

    Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor.  Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

    John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details
    • 31 May 2017
    • What Do You Think?

    Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

    it, “The acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon (which took place after this month’s column was posted) shows that there still are vast opportunities for Amazon to avoid the mechanics of the wheel The wheel begins to turn only when volume... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
    • Research Summary

    The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management

    In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details

    • 01 Mar 2018
    • News

    Every Trick in the Book

    bookselling industry, is growing. The American Booksellers Association counted 2,321 physical independent bookstores in the United States in 2017—40 percent more than there were in 2009. Raffaelli, who has also researched what he calls “technology reemergence” in the... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • 01 Dec 2009
    • News

    One Man Crime Wave

    affair was an expression of rebellion, his doctor says, “I tell you, Carl, nobody will ever be able to measure all the human misery that is the indirect result of the inescapable boredom and sense of purposelessness that derives from a civilization so View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
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    Harvard Business School

    Chicago and the Farmington Bank Foundation. White was previously employed as CFO of Rockville Financial, vice president of Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston, and senior vice president of Mechanics Savings Bank. Popup content View Details
    • 01 May 2019
    • What Do You Think?

    What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

    Silicon Valley's culture as a whole—‘an algorithm solves everything’ and ‘just put it out and we'll fix it later.’ In traditional media, for example, considerable debate can go into the production of a program ... With YouTube, Facebook, and others, there is no View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
    • Research Summary

    Dissertation: Is the Ideal Worker Still Real? Sources and Consequences of Men's Professional Identities

    My dissertation examines the implications of men's changing lives for their work identities and for gender inequality in organizations. Current theories of workplace gender inequality hinge upon the widely-shared cultural image of an "ideal worker,"... View Details

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    By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

    Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

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    Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs

    “U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”

    Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details

    Keywords: Non-market Strategy; Political Strategy; Lobbying; Make V. Buy; Multinational Enterprise; Global Strategy; United States
    • 03 Feb 2012
    • HBS Seminar

    Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

    • Research Summary

    Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

    A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

    Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting
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    Overview

    Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details
    Keywords: Well-being; Judgment And Decision Making; Health; Prosocial Behavior
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    Isaac Robinson | MBA

    Isaac Robinson Computer Science/Mathematics Eliot 2023 Cohort 5 I am excited to have a space and cohort of peers dedicated to conscientiously using technology and computational thinking to improve society. Tech areas of interest: View Details

      Willis H. Carrier

      Carrier was a pioneer in the field of mechanical refrigeration. Perfecting an air cooling system, Carrier first introduced air conditioning to theaters in the 1930’s and later went on to develop elaborate, but affordable, air conditioning... View Details
      Keywords: Fabricated Goods
      • 21 Nov 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

      stock indexes can be a mechanism for transforming long-standing corporate behavior. After decades of low corporate profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 Index was introduced in 2014. Each year the index selected 400 large and liquid... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 11 Mar 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: March 11, 2008

      conditions under which a dominant design may be achieved, the underlying architecture of the era of incremental change and the dynamics associated with discontinuities. Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 05 Jun 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

      Swiss Mechanical Watchmaking, 1970-2008 By: Raffaelli, Ryan Abstract—In 1983, 14 years after the introduction of the battery-powered quartz watch, mechanical watches and the Swiss watchmakers who built them... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

        Lothar W. Faber

        Faber improved the Eberhard-Faber Company’s product line by adding fountain pens, mechanical pencils, and refill leads. Faber also invented the clamp tip type of pencil with a removable, adjustable eraser. Faber grew the company’s... View Details
        Keywords: Fabricated Goods