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24 Oct 2012
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companies and entrepreneurs in emerging markets. "With governmental and nonprofit ventures, it's generally harder to see which initiatives work and which are ineffective at achieving their goals. That is what drives me to do this... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

30 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

is general agreement on goals. “Where I think we still have far to go is in teaching the skills for operating in the high-conflict, low-authority zone outside your own firm." —Dutch Leonard "By contrast," Leonard continues, "when our book... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

Union.” The second book, one I am well into, is my colleague Shoshanna Zuboff’s magisterial The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. This book is one of genius. It provides a sweeping description the rise and impact of business models that are... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

August 2014 (Revised May 2016)
Case

Husk Power

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Sid Misra

In late 2013, Husk Power Systems found itself falling further and further behind plan. The founding CEO had decided to resign. His co-founder is faced with the decision of quitting his corporate job in the US to head to India and help form a new management team. Husk... View Details

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21 Sep 2009
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Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

the last twenty years, our stock markets also became increasingly institutionalized. The real investors are mostly professional money managers who are focused on the short term. "It is these shareholders who pushed companies to View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

the most likely to oppose its increase. Similarly, in the General Social Survey, those above poverty but below median income support redistribution significantly less than their background characteristics would predict. Publisher's link: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

measurement and analytics in translating TD-Canada Trust's service model of "comfortable banking" into operational terms. In 2000, in a banking market where consumers and regulators were typically hostile to mergers and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 May 2012
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First Look: May 1

Abstract Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms build capabilities to generate and sustain competitive advantage: learning by doing, learning by exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

HBS Professor Marco Iansiti and H.T. Kung, William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, solicited views on new directions for the Internet in a panel discussion called "e-Service: The Next e-Wave." The current shift on the 'Net, said Iansiti, is toward a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

of racial inclusion on boards of directors among large public corporations, and we draw upon in-depth interviews with key participants to gain insights into the mechanisms that are likely to have generated the patterns we detect in our... View Details

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

could not understand some of the assets on the balance sheets of these firms. The assets were complicated, and were not traded, so there was no open market, and the models were difficult to understand. Commercial banks, however, were in a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

the outcomes. Teradyne found that by using generic components offered with Windows NT software, it could slash the cost of delivering the product to integrated circuit manufacturers. Despite the significant cost advantages offered by... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806086 Comergent Technologies Inc.: Enterprise E-Commerce Harvard Business School Case 505-016 BP's IR director has begun a program to use information regarding external views of BP and the industry as part... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

a summary measure of revenue generation and cost control. They should be controllable in that employees in the organization can actually influence improvement in the factor measured. Some of the metrics shown here are evaluations of... View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss

As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

22 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

to increase significantly, with income from fees and other direct compensations growing from 23 percent in 1987 to 65 percent by 2007. What happened? The paper presents an economic model of an agency's decision to unbundle its services... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

09 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

about innovation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55477 November–December 2018 Organization Science Slack Time and Innovation By: Agrawal, Ajay, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb, and Hong Luo Abstract— Traditional innovation View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

Karl Ulrich, Wharton professor, must decide between a commercial and "open source" model for his new business case venture. Students analyze a variety of open source and proprietary business models... View Details