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- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
similar to that of strategy. We present a conceptual framework to separate and relate business model and strategy. Business model, we argue, is a reflection of the firm's realized strategy. We find that in simple competitive situations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2009
- HBS Case
The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine
neighboring countries had had similar problems with Ukraine, the shutoff was a PR disaster for Gazprom, which had enjoyed a long-standing reputation as a reliable supplier of natural gas, through pipelines in Ukraine, to Europe. Abdelal's... View Details
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
Friedman, managers who believe the hype of a flat world do so at their own risk, says HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat. National borders still matter a lot for business strategists. While identifying similarities from one place to the next... View Details
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
contrasts with the rest of the $4 trillion private equity industry. Even though COVID-19 has hurt a similar percentage of companies backed by private equity and venture capital, returns on traditional private equity portfolios will likely... View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
companies and their shareholders. It’s no secret that companies with similar financials often pay very dissimilar amounts of tax in a given year. The same is true of individuals. One need look no further than Republican presidential... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
the project in our sample was similar to the average size of a project funded by the NEA. And yet, you can imagine that the kinds of projects people put on Kickstarter and the kind they submit to the NEA are quite different in composition... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
firms and alliances head-to-head in a meaningful way, which requires measuring their performance in similar situations. "When you see an alliance over here, and a solo firm over there, there's a good reason for that," says... View Details
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
thought was that globalization was making the world so similar that [location] didn't matter," says Christopher Marquis, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, who coauthored the paper with András Tilcsik (HBS PhDOB '12),... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
against similar goals others have strived for), significance (a positive impact on people you care about), and legacy (establishing your values or accomplishments in ways that help others find future success)." According to Nash and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
firm, and by extension in the emergence of an industry, Higgins writes in her chapter, titled "Careers Creating Industries." "With a significant number of IPOs, what was previously simply a group of young organizations engaged in View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
costs fell by more than 60 percent. We've seen change of a similar magnitude in civilian industries as well. Less than 2 percent of the US population/workforce now works on the land, but agricultural production has only continued to... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
engage in collective behaviors that diminish their ability to do so. Sarah Jane Gilbert:What led you to study the effects of performance pressure on work teams? Heidi Gardner: I experienced similar team dynamics when I worked in a... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
digital encoding have a similar effect. Improvements in content resolution (such as the transition to multi-channel audio and high definition video), however, tend to worsen the efficiency of the p2p network, making iTunes relatively more... View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
those responses were not able to predict sales," Karmarker's note states, illustrating the marketing value of subconscious cerebral data. Neuromarketing can provide important but complex data to companies that target a global audience. While product testing may... View Details
- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
for entrepreneurs to seek out feedback from early adopters who are demographically similar to their target users in order to accurately gauge the market. “If Product Hunt doesn’t go well, then maybe find other channels, build out focus... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
the business R-zone will confront a major financial crisis within three years is 45 percent, based on the team’s research. Countries that fall into the household R-zone—when personal credit and home prices overheat at similar rates—face a... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
all time. Data analytics firm Similar Web reported that in its first week alone, the app had been installed on nearly 11 percent of all Android phones in the United States, and surpassed Twitter’s daily usage shortly thereafter. Pokémon... View Details
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
through those to success." Morino also noted that while there are many similarities between the goals of a venture-funded start-up and those of a grassroots community organization, investors need to be very mindful of the... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
of many managers facing similar threats. In the case of Firestone, Sull writes, it just dug itself into an even deeper hole. Its reaction did not make the company better able to fend off the threat of radial technology; quite the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
to those of Mosaic, a similar tool then under development at the University of Illinois. Reviewers of Brooks's prototype raved about its ease of use and reliability. The engineer felt certain that, with EG&G's backing, his idea would... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner