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- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
constitute an impressive 49 percent of the world's capital markets. But the job picture is bleak, with over four million people unemployed for more than 26 weeks. Productivity growth has been negative for four years. Compared to the other... View Details
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Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member in the new MS/MBA joint degree program. He is an expert in the management of innovation and new product development, with a focus on the design and deployment of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
is the Bakken formation, a 25,000-square-mile underground deposit that—thanks to a rise in fracking and new oil extraction technologies—has produced as much as 1 million barrels of oil and gas a day, or about the production equivalent of... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
the more traditional interest rate and tax channels-suggests new considerations in assessing the impact of government spending on private sector economic activity. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/cmalloy/pdffiles/envaloy.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
things, guys give references to other things.” But the remarkable finding was the gender dynamics. According to the research, there are more women on Twitter than men, women tweet about the same rate as men, but men's tweets are followed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
commit often substantial resources to vetting new technologies through processes that aim to affirm their viability and marketability (or lack thereof). In doing so, firms reduce the chance that new products will falter in the marketplace... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
Flavr Savr tomato, introduced more than 20 years ago. The decision was driven by the economics of bringing a value-added product to consumers, Baker says of the marketing of the White Russet. The fresh market would place the most value on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
adoption of some cost-reducing, consumer-facing, and life-saving technology innovations. Herzlinger—dubbed the “godmother of consumer-driven health care”—has helped to shepherd countless new health care products to market. But she’s never... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
another EMR company offered eCW the chance to grow quickly in an industry that is estimated to take in more than $40 billion in overall revenues in 2007. But this acquisition would require outside financing of some sort. Was this the moment to accelerate the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
as popular celebrities like Ozzy Osbourne and writers like Ben Mezrich—are getting into the NFT market. And with Coinbase opening its own NFT marketplace this year, these products will become significantly more accessible to consumers. We... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
what we have learned about how best to accelerate innovation from industries like IT and pharmaceuticals - sectors in which the US leads the world and which saw enormous rates of technical progress over the last fifty years. The results... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
important, and there’s been great progress on educational attainment rates in general. But if you think about most states have adopted sort of a singular attainment goal, like a single number—like, let’s shoot for 55 percent or 60 percent... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity growth was low, and the stock market was in... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
that wanted to improve promotion rates of women but then resisted, looking beyond gender as an explanation for women's underrepresentation at the top. Part of the difficulty, according to Ely and Padavic, is that while work/family issues... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
Approximately 5 percent of the sample chose to respond online. The overall response rate was 53 percent. Q: What was the overall reaction to DTCA from physicians in your sample? Weissman: Quite mixed! Overall, 40 percent felt that DTCA... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Allocation Theory By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—This article considers the process of resource allocation, whereby an organization determines how best to apportion its factors of production between the various View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
number of worldwide mobile cellular subscriptions reached 6 billion in 2011, reflecting a penetration rate of 87%. This note provides some industry context for the advent and opportunities associated with mobile broadband. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
absent from the largest retail markets. Moreover, every retailer that has ventured overseas has failed as often as it has succeeded. On average, the extent of internationalization doesn't have a significant effect on either retailers' revenue growth View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings illuminate a continuum of open systems to closed systems phenomenological assumptions revealed in this microprocess research. Analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
makes up 33% of Lan's overall revenues (markedly different from many U.S. legacy carriers that derive 3% to 4% of revenues from cargo). Since a change of ownership in 1994, Lan has grown steadily and quickly at a compound annual growth View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace