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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
values and tried many times to formulate the distinctive characteristics of the various services." In essence, the "Navy spokesmen attempted to distinguish between the Army as a 'manpower' organization and the Navy as a finely... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak
and 47 minutes—29 minutes faster than any woman before her. The record she hasn’t broken—yet: The original objective was to break the speed record from the park entrance to the Aconcagua summit as part of an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
2017 Annual Review of Economics Agricultural Insurance and Economic Development By: Cole, Shawn A., and Wentao Xiong Abstract—This article provides a review of recent research on agricultural insurance (AI)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
Eileen Rudden A native of Nutley, New Jersey, Eileen Rudden always loved math. So it was only natural that she spent her summers programming computers as an undergraduate at Brown University. "That was back in the mainframe generation,"... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
Working PapersTo Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts Authors:Benjamin Edelman, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract We examine the profitability and implications of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
January 2019 Perspectives on Psychological Science Educating Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract— No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55580 January 2019 Journal View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
Howard R. Hughes, Jr.
Hughes began his business career at the age of nineteen by taking over his father’s business, Hughes Tool Company. Hughes parlayed this small business into a highly successful and well-regarded aircraft manufacturing operation. Through... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Donald W. Douglas
Douglas developed and built all types of military planes as well as civilian transport planes. The big breakthrough for Douglas came in the early 1930s when he introduced the DC series of planes. In 1935,... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni Are Integral to HBS
with Belo-Osagie in an Aldrich classroom engaging with 57 first and second-year MBA students. During the four-day course, he worked with Elkins to provide an overview of Africa’s economic landscape, range of... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
faculty, students, staff, and alumni groups about the challenges we face and the opportunities we see, the few important initiatives that I've heard individuals tell me about. First, I think implementing with speed and urgency the... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
expectations can be formed, which correspond to two different types of users-sophisticated and unsophisticated. Only sophisticated users adjust their expectations in response to platforms' price changes. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
Henry Taub
Taub took a back-office, manual operation and turned it into a successful business proposition. In starting ADP, he concentrated on providing payroll services for small businesses and for financial service firms on Wall Street. The quality, accuracy, and View Details
Keywords: Services
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
careful allocation of risks and returns among the various parties so that they have incentives to manage efficiently. Also important is the possibility for adjustments in risk allocation and responsibilities... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
The starting five: This year's Alumni Achievement Award winners included (clockwise, from lower left) Judy Haberkorn, Lou Gerstner, Joe O'Donnell, Rahul Bajaj, and Nancy Barry. The group visited HBS in September and took part in a case discussion with members View Details
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
In the opening panel of the conference, titled "Japan Towards the 21st Century: How Should Japan Compete?" moderator and Harvard University professor Michael Porter laid a framework for experts from Japanese business,... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico By: Beshears, John... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
long-run equilibrium regardless of the speed of Linux's demand-side learning persists if there are cost asymmetries. We find that because OSS implies lower profits for... View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
Apple boasts that more than one billion songs have been purchased from its iTunes music service. That sounds like a great number—until you consider that an estimated ten million users of Internet-based peer-to-peer (p2p) networks are... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
simulate it, which means, on the computer, you would launch a golf ball at it and watch it come off. And the simulation program would measure the speed the golf ball was moving at, its spin, all that. And it would give you a really good... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
where you are and catch up. At the beginning of every school year, getting kids back up to speed has always been an issue, but it’s going to be that much bigger this year. If I were a district administrator,... View Details