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- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
reacting to similar challenges. As trendy financial dot-coms with huge technology and advertising budgets emerge offering everyone an equal—and inexpensive—chance to trade stock, apply for a loan, buy insurance, or pay a bill, traditional... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
and the supervised ML coding of facial images with a neural network algorithm. We employ these novel methods to study CEO oral communication, using videos and corresponding transcripts of emerging market CEO... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22
Publication:Academy of Management Annals Abstract The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields-including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research-and has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
in the 1920s. The same two companies began the process of commercializing television in the 1930s. Telefunken, housed in Berlin, lost its learning base during World War II. So in the 1940s RCA took the lead in commercializing black-and-white television. In the 1950s it... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-114.pdf Platforms and Limits to Network Effects (revised) Authors:Hanna Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
exception. Yet providers and payers continue to try to stymie competition. Many are actively pursuing consolidation, buying up market share, and increasing their bargaining power. In this article, the authors argue that health care payers and providers must stop... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
affordable, changing the way we consumers pay for the services doesn't fix anything. What we need is a system of new value networks that will disrupt the old business models in this industry. We need a new approach not just to insurance... View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
within the context of the device approval process. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53492 Lessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
chapter on consumption, for example, is by the late columnist William Safire, who wrote about how he came to own 38 shirts. His column is grouped with a reader's response and a set of stories about developments in the retail environment.... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
assets, including customer relationships; innovative products and services; high-quality and responsive operating processes; skills and knowledge of the workforce; the information technology that supports the workforce and links the firm... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms that receive poor ratings, and especially those that face lower-cost opportunities to improve or that anticipate greater benefits from doing so. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
health story will lag.” THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond How to Manage Coronavirus Layoffs with Compassion (Harvard Business Review) Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
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First Look Tuesday
extraordinary government support to help stabilize the funding of global financial institutions. In light of the problems that emerged during the crisis, a number of MMF reforms have been proposed, which we analyze in this paper. We... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007
domains. Later in the article, I will discuss the role of different theories from social science in the policy formulation process. "Against Desperate Peril: High Performance in Emergency Preparation and Response." In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
most countries, there are strong local brands reflecting local tastes that coexist alongside global brands.” Marketing by producers to consumers is as old as the bazaar. But modern marketing is more than just selling. It involves the design of products and services in... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
PublicationsThe Strategic Use of Brand Biographies Authors:Jill Avery, Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan, and Juliet Schor Publication:Research in Consumer Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract We introduce the concept of a brand biography to describe an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
promotion. It’s going to affect my performance evaluation. They fear they’ll be viewed as less committed, that they’re going to be suspect. The biggest two effects of having caregiving responsibilities that are hard to reconcile with your... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
to career," says Rivkin. In Cincinnati, the Strive Partnership serves as a central clearing house for aligning goals with the metrics and decisions to meet those goals. "This fosters a sense of collective responsibility but... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14
dynamics may not converge, but if they do converge, then the limit strategy profiles constitute a subset of the Nash equilibria of the stage game. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-126.pdf Quantity vs. Quality: Exclusion by Platforms with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product, which can be easily stockpiled by end-consumers, as well as who, within the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace