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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories

By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano
Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts
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Reverse Innovation

VG and Chris Trimble reveal a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press; April 10, 2012;... View Details

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Overview

By: Anywhere Sikochi

Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

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Creating Trust in International Joint Ventures in Asia: An Empirical Comparative Study

In the wake of the currently ongoing financial crisis in Asia, we anticipate a rapid increase of international joint ventures between Asian and Western firms. However, so far, the sources of success in international joint ventures have not been well understood. Why do... View Details
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850

By: G. Jones
This working paper integrates the role of entrepreneurship and firms into debates on why Asia, Latin America and Africa were slow to catch up with the West following the Industrial Revolution and the advent of modern economic growth. It argues that the currently... View Details
Keywords: Institutional Change; Political Economy; Emerging Economies; Developing Countries; Industrial Development; Culture; Human Capital; Economic History; History; Wealth and Poverty; Business History; Emerging Markets; Globalization; Developing Countries and Economies; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; Service Industry; Latin America; Asia; North and Central America; Africa; South America; Europe
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: What's Up? Is It Real?

By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt
The two components of the advertising industry—the creative sector that develops and produces messages, and the communications sector that transmits messages via various media—have each been greatly affected by advances in creative design and communications... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Advertising; Spending; Media
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  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

knowledge of local manufacturers' costs and capabilities to solve the problem. The partner located a new supplier that could source an equivalent component at lower cost. For NewCo, the value of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

    Trust

    Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries, the developed world has built customs and institutions such as enforceable contracts, an impartial legal... View Details
    • 23 Nov 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

    individual patient. However, routine practice is itself a fertile source of innovations in care, in both what to do and how to do it. Medical knowledge and how to operationalize it can be learned through taking care of patients, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
    • 21 Oct 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: October 21, 2008

    door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. We find that higher prices screen out those who use the product less. By contrast, we find no consistent evidence of sunk-cost effects. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-034.pdf View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • October 2011 (Revised November 2011)
    • Case

    Verengo Solar Plus!

    By: William A. Sahlman, Joseph B. Lassiter III and Liz Kind
    In the three years since Bishop and Button purchased Verengo in a leveraged buyout (LBO), the company had gone through dramatic changes. Initially a residential windows and insulation firm, after the economic recession of 2008 the company switched gears and began... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Growth Management; Restructuring; Renewable Energy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Finance; Product Development; Energy Industry; California
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    Experience and description-based decision making.

    Prof. Barron and his co-authors study the effect of the economic environment on decision making. One example involves the effect of rare (low probability) events. People behave as if they overweight these events in some settings (e.g., when buying insurance and... View Details
    • 03 Jan 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension

    Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole; Agriculture & Agribusiness
    • March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
    • Case

    H2 Green Steel: A Clean-Tech Triple Play?

    By: Debora L. Spar, Gunnar Trumbull, Henry Tao and Julia Comeau
    At the end of 2023, the Swedish startup H2 Green Steel was mid-way through construction on an integrated steel plant in Northern Sweden that would use abundant local hydro power to create Europe’s first commercial-scale green steel. Their goal was to help European... View Details
    Keywords: Steel; Green Business; Green Technology; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Startups; Climate Change; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Renewable Energy; Steel Industry; Sweden
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    • 21 Jun 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

    as well as opportunities? Khanna: Here's an example. Let's think about the sourcing of talent. A business school in some sense is an institution that, in addition to training and teaching people to think about their role in society,... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 2009
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Singapore Competitiveness Report

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Ashish Lall and Boon Siong Neo

    The 2009 Singapore Competitiveness Report, the first in this new series of regular assessments by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, provides data and analysis to inform the discussions on the impact of the crisis... View Details

    Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Singapore
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    Africa - Global

    management issues, trends, and practices, as well as develop locally relevant case studies and course materials for use in business education programs around the world. The Africa Research Center also supports alumni engagement, webinars... View Details
    • 07 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook

    Walk into any local coffee shop, and you might see people using Amazon Kindles—but you’re not likely to spot anyone with a Sony Librie, even though Sony was the first company to make an e-reader in 2004. “It was probably a better... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 05 Feb 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Business and the Global Poor

    supply-chain investments to make it possible for the small farmer to produce good-quality milk, transport it, and sell it to the company. This makes sense for the company because it needs fresh, locally produced milk, and for the small... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 May 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?

    advice while spreading misinformation based on deliberately inaccurate source material? Given the level of uncertainty about AI’s future use, there is a growing concern about its unfettered development. Several weeks ago, a thousand... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Technology