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- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
invested in founders has its origins in the same historical forces that shaped most industries: When the VC model emerged in the 1940s, white men dominated the workforce. The persistence of the gender gap is harder to explain but is often... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
competition effects to dominate within store categories—especially among discount and midscale stores—but positive agglomeration effects to exist across store categories. Although varying by store brand, our results suggest that upscale... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
investors and building shipment volume slowly, or 1366 could accelerate its market entry dramatically by partnering with the Asian manufacturers that had begun to dominate the worldwide solar industry. While accelerated growth was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
all female leaders must deal with ambivalent reactions rooted in gender stereotypes. Generally, the assertive, dominant behavior typical among leaders tends to be viewed as atypical and unattractive in women. Studies of attitudes toward... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
core (“the dominant organizations, institutions, groups, and processes of the pre-Internet era,” that, for example, produced our printed encyclopedias) to the crowd (“new participants and practices enabled by the net and its attendant... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
ever to come by. Q: What is "hyper-maturity?" A: It takes a period of time before a category reaches the point that we begin to experience it as a blur. When a product category is nascent, it tends to be dominated by a much... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
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Women's History Month | Baker Library
captures the Largest Minority/Women-Owned Business in Massachusetts by Revenue, where ownership is defined as at least a 51% equity stake in the company. For the last several years, Construction & Engineering has be the dominant industry... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
role in solving the world's growing need for protein. The CEO is considering three alternatives for taking advantage of his firm's dominant position. Expand production in Chile, produce value-added salmon products, or backward-integrate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
search engine, it has increasingly developed and promoted its own content as an alternative to results from other websites. By prominently displaying Google content in response to search queries, Google is able to use its dominance in... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
that the American business school as it evolved in the post-World War II era has become the dominant model for business schools in Europe and elsewhere in the world. Most observers looking at these institutions as they exist today,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
The Role of Employee Proactivity Authors:A. M. Grant, F. Gino, and D. Hofmann Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Extraversion predicts leadership emergence and effectiveness, but do groups perform more effectively under extraverted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
in creating the personal computer industry; the department store Dayton-Hudson launched Target; and Hewlett-Packard created and grew to dominate the disruptive ink-jet printer business. When they follow the rules we've described in our... View Details
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
807-126 PRG-Schultz will run out of cash within a couple of months unless the new CEO can reduce costs and restructure the company's debt. PRG was the dominant market leader in the audit recovery industry. The industry consisted of firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
more products. We test and confirm these predictions in a series of field experiments conducted with a dominant online fashion and apparel retailer. Furthermore, using information in historical transaction data about each consumer, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
is that we're in a standards war right now, and there is proprietary standard with iTunes, and there are going to be alternative standards pushed by Microsoft, Real Networks, and others. If Apple doesn't open itself up and make sure that it becomes the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that incumbent firms have the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
linguistic groups in emerging markets also affects foreign investors. In Malaysia, for instance, foreign companies should enter into joint ventures only after checking if their potential partners belong to the majority Malay community or the economically View Details
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Global Climate Change
global budgets for three dominant greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide — and complementary efforts in urban, regional, cumulative, and negative emissions. View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
sense of being in a landscaped pedestrian precinct." Most traffic disappeared from campus in the 1980s, and "scores of trees and thousands of flowers where cars and trucks had once dominated" now dominate the landscape.... View Details
Keywords: Education