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- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
in the music, news, and entertainment industries. The gathering will look at the emerging collaborative and sharing economies, explore organizational change in a digital context, consider the implications of new technologies for health... View Details
- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
red flag of 2004—outsourcing—as well as to ensure future benefits and avoid future costs in regulatory matters. As Ramanna and Roychowdhury write in their working paper [PDF] "Accounting Information as Political Currency":... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
whether the Section and the Law of which it is a part will have the desired effects. This suggests the importance of tracking both the costs and benefits of the Law. There is little or no provision to do either in the Law itself. What is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
innovations, companies and markets necessary to save the planet. To memorialize their content, organizers from the HBS Business and Environment Initiative asked panelists to share (in writing) the main messages they hoped attendees would... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
structure between software applications. Our test uses data from a large international telecom company. In total, we analyzed 103 applications and 243 dependencies. Results show that the enterprise application structure can be classified as a core-periphery... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
fellows do, with rare exception, is quickly mainstreamed into the life of the organization,” says Levy. So if the Leadership Fellows program provides benefits that most young, high-powered MBAs crave — access, impact, and leadership opportunities — it also satisfies an... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
(BRFSS) data on 2.3 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of business cycles, with implications for growth... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
costs decrease and as the benefits from outsourcing the use of intellectual property increases. We also examine how different licensing arrangements affect the relation between the variance of the returns to the intellectual property and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
capital to pay fixed and variable costs affects choices firms make regarding export entry and operations, and, as a consequence, influence aggregate trade patterns. Financial frictions and the use of internal capital markets shape... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
and the size and quality of the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the size of the menu is sufficiently small, low-ability menu setters optimally offer more items in the menu than high-ability menu setters. Nevertheless, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
potential to supercharge innovation, because we can prototype more ideas and share them with each other much more rapidly. That's on the supply side of the economy. On the demand or marketing side, the new technology may allow us to match... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Chick-fil-A Foundation, lists some simple but powerful ways people can affect others and create a legacy of service. His stories aim to help people demonstrate life-changing compassion, understand courage, make brave choices every day, and View Details
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
showrooms. "I think a large part of what this work is about is displaying how costly it is, underscoring the importance of setting your shipping fees" As growth in online retail has outpaced expansion in traditional retail stores, the higher View Details
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
research going on at Harvard Business School. Held each May on the HBS campus, the event provides the opportunity for a few faculty to share recent work with an audience of doctoral students, HBS staff members, and other professors. This... View Details
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
As elegantly described by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen in his 1997 bestseller, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, so-called disruptive technologies are upstart innovations that manage to penetrate the market View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog
highlight both the opportunities and challenges of launching and operating a venture within the region. Experts from Singapore’s private and public sectors will share their insights, offering a balanced perspective. The Fall classes will... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
subsidiaries around the world responded to the crisis relative to local establishments. We find that first, multinational subsidiaries fared on average better than local counterfactuals with similar economic characteristics. Second, among multinational subsidiaries,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
great business cultures, building on over a century of academic thinking. They share a simple, highly predictive measurement tool, the Total Motivation (ToMo) Factor, which enables managers to measure the strength of their business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
that many never sign up for pay TV at all. “I suspect that what is happening is much more profound, and that revolution will come from individuals and companies creating content at a fraction of the cost per hour of traditional pay-TV... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
aspect of business is up for re-evaluation as a result of the pandemic, from the most granular to the most overarching level. Two executives shared vivid descriptions of the early days when the reality of the pandemic set in. It was like... View Details