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  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

transparency and weak governance in resource rich countries. However, we document that industry self-regulation has generated information to substitute for the gap in voluntary company disclosure. We also find some evidence that these... View Details
  • 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

evidence on whether and how these programs affect the real economy. Using rich borrower-linked mortgage-market data, we document that there is a “flypaper effect” of LSAPs, where the transmission of unconventional monetary policy to... View Details
  • 25 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

1999 by chairman and CEO Michael Bronner, had all the scale anyone could ask for: to create a national customer-loyalty program (like airlines' frequent-traveler mileage points) which would pay consumers rebates on their shopping—not in... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

copyrighted content over peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing networks and its impact on the music industry and to assess the viable business models for the industry in the future. Competitiveness: Business Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

of organic wine, which provides a case study of failed category creation. The modern organic wine industry emerged during the 1970s in the United States and Western Europe, but it struggled to gain traction compared to other organic food... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51919 Harvard Business School Case 918-014 La Ceiba: Navigating Microfinance and Relationships in Honduras (A) This case follows the program director of La Ceiba, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

sector's tilt toward short-term financing was merely the industry responding to a lack of available government debt instruments, such as short-term risk-free Treasuries, that were much in demand by investors during the global savings... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services
  • 04 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a featureless landscape of... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

interests were to be minimized. Bill Bain conceptualized his firm to serve one company per industry to ensure a focused, client-centric approach. Most firms established an unwavering culture where growth was an outcome, not the objective,... View Details
Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting
  • 16 Aug 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

they are operating. In this toolkit, we present three methods for collecting and analyzing information about these marketing environments firms face: Five C's Analysis, Porter's Five Forces Industry Analysis, and SWOT (Strengths,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

network of bilateral relations that are more or less hospitable for IGOs. Read the paper: http://www.torfason.net/site/wp-content/uploads/Ingram-and-Torfason-2010-Organizing-the-In-Between.pdf   Working PapersBroadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

concentrated industry activity creates pools of skilled labor and specialized suppliers and increases opportunities for knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these agglomeration economies may vary by firm, depending upon the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design

By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal
In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Education; Training; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Production; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement; Programs; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Rank and Position; Safety; Attitudes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Trust; Well-being; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; India
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  • 04 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

resignation rates are through the roof. Additionally, there are jobs which have "bad hygiene," by which we mean they are demanding, low paid, and provide few prospects for advancement. Some companies and industries are taking a hard look... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
  • 12 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

unclear whether there is a business model that can turn Wi-Fi into profit. A panel of telecommunications industry pioneers came together to talk about the larger issue of the competitive landscape in broadband wireless, but most of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 23 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 23

unobserved program attributes. Our focus is on the network television industry, in which the products are television shows. We estimate a model that allows us to distinguish between the direct effect of advertising on utility and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

level of maturity where scaling the business model was the next logical step. With two greenhouses already in Canada, he was looking into other locations in the U.S. Though Lufa Farms' advanced cultivation technologies made the company stand out in its sector, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the International Comparisons Program (ICP) in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

  Working PapersProduct Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges Are the Benefits Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard Abstract The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the interdisciplinary nature of the work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

effect dominates the negative within-firm effect post IPO. We build a firm industry model with endogenous entry to quantify the importance of two competing selection mechanisms: an increasing share of R&D-intensive firms in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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