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  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

Innovation and Economic Performance By: Delgado, Mercedes, and Karen G. Mills Abstract—An active debate has centered on the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper... View Details

    Gary P. Pisano

    Gary Pisano is the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School where he has been on the faculty since 1988. From 2018-2023, Pisano was Harvard Business School’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotion and... View Details

    Keywords: manufacturing; manufacturing; manufacturing; manufacturing; manufacturing
    • 03 Jan 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: January 3, 2007

    out less-intensive users of the product. High prices do not cause greater product use than low prices for a given buyer, but there is some evidence that the act of paying increases use. Our estimates imply that positive prices may be optimal even if maximizing use is... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • February 2023 (Revised March 2025)
    • Case

    Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy (A)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
    In July 2019, Graphic Packaging CEO Michael Doss was proposing a $600 million investment in a new machine to produce coated recycled board (CRB), a type of paper packaging used for consumer products (cups, cereal boxes, beverage boxes, etc.) that utilized recycled... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Growth Management; Demand and Consumers; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Value Creation; Supply and Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; United States; North America
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    • 2009
    • Article

    India Transformed: Insights from the Firm Level 1988–2007

    By: Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari
    Using firm-level data, this paper analyzes the transformation of India's economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Statements; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Transformation; Economics; Ownership; Assets; Sales; Profit; Stock Shares; Private Sector; Investment Return; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
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    • 09 Sep 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Quantity vs. Quality: Exclusion by Platforms with Network Effects

    Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Technology
    • Research Summary

    Putting Patients First: Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing Nations

    It is more than mere coincidence that the highest rates of HIV occur in the world’s poorest countries. Of the over 40 million people currently living with HIV, 95 percent are in the developing world. The first half of this paper explores the economics of HIV and... View Details
    • 02 May 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Profits and Economic Development

    Keywords: by Dan Schwab & Eric Werker
    • 17 Apr 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Diffusing Management Practices within the Firm: The Role of Information Provision

    Keywords: by Michael J. Lenox & Michael W. Toffel; Technology
    • 17 Apr 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: April 17, 2007

      Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This working paper examines the evolution of concepts of the responsibility of business in a historical and global perspective. It shows that from the nineteenth century American, European, Japanese, Indian and other business leaders discussed the responsibilities of... View Details
    Keywords: Rachel Carson; Sustainability; Local Food; Operations Management; Supply Chain; Business And Society; Business Ethics; Business History; Corporate Philanthropy; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Environmentalism; Environmental Entrepreneurship; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Ethics; Globalization; History; Religion; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; Africa
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    • 08 Dec 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: Dec. 8

    Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 16 Feb 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    A New Categorization of the US Economy: The Role of Supply Chain Industries in Innovation and Economic Performance

    Keywords: by Mercedes Delgado and Karen G. Mills; Manufacturing
    • 31 Jan 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

    Rise of American Ingenuity By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—This paper builds on the analysis in Akcigit et al. (2017) by using U.S. patent and Census data to examine macro- and micro-level aspects of the... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors

    By: Susan Helper and Rebecca Henderson
    General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the US market fell from 62.6 to 19.8 percent, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this paper we argue that the conventional... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Decision Making; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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    • 06 Aug 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Field-Level Paradox and the Co-Evolution of an Entrepreneurial Vision

    Keywords: by Ryan Raffaelli and Richard DeJordy; Manufacturing
    • 16 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

    Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set forth in previous chapters to theories of firm boundaries... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • February 2023
    • Supplement

    Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy (A) Courseware

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Scott Mayfield
    In July 2019, Graphic Packaging CEO Michael Doss was proposing a $600 million investment in a new machine to produce coated recycled board (CRB), a type of paper packaging used for consumer products (cups, cereal boxes, beverage boxes, etc.) that utilized recycled... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Growth Management; Demand and Consumers; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Value Creation; Supply and Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; United States; North America
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    • 03 Jun 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: June 3, 2008

    efficient use of social resources)? We address these questions through the lens of economics, including insights from legal analysis and business scholarship. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13989... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    India Transformed? Insights from the Firm Level 1988-2005 (with Anusha Chari)

    By: Laura Alfaro
    Using firm-level data this paper analyzes, the transformation of India’s economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly-listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details