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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
engineer to design a new version of the product with higher steel content and wider ribs so that the panels were easier to nail together and channeled rain water more effectively. Union says she’s found this kind of attention to detail... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
outpaced the growth of the economy, and this disconnect increases as the difference between the corporate income tax rate of the U.S. and the other OECD countries increases. The underlying mechanism is fewer corporate profits being View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
his career, Christensen channeled his time, talents, and energy into researching and writing cases designed to help teachers become more proficient at the distinctive skills—organization of course material, preparation for class, opening... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
float up. And so I got the big telescoping net and I held it up against the seawall. And I urged her to go and call the Channel 7 news truck. I remember that that ad that said, if you see news in the making, call—whatever it was—... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
classroom. Embarking in earnest on the “second adventure” of his career, Christensen channeled his time, talents, and energy into researching and writing cases designed to help teachers become more proficient at the distinctive skills —... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
contemplating how to do just that—but not by tackling a new frontier of the geographic variety. Rather, the firm was further exploring the digital frontier via a new distribution channel that would allow it to better compete in the online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
experience, right? They like turning on the television, flipping the channels and seeing what's on. And then I think the third thing is from the supply side, I think prices and costs have to be wrestled down. There's a real issue with... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
who recorded the moment exclusively for a five-part documentary series that will air on the Discovery Channel this fall. “Who knows what could have happened?” Procedure dictated that if he was out of contact for more than 30 minutes, he... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
quality of accounting information. Overall, a tractable accounting-based valuation model provides a unifying framework for obtaining reliable proxies of expected returns worldwide. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49238 Design of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
the exceptions—scale to national size. Schumpeter's cycle apparently does not operate in the social sector. This paper proposes that the disparity arises from the nonprofit sector's historically immature infrastructure and poor mechanisms for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
to calculate demand curves, price elasticity, and profitability metrics for firms and their channel partners; and charts and graphs that help visualize the results. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511028-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
and behaviors of both consumers and the distribution channels so that Montague folding bicycles have legitimacy." Harry Montague, an avid cyclist, is an example of the sort of "user-entrepreneur" studied by Tripsas.... View Details
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
introduction of IP rights. Last, we've seen open source communities evolve and now open source nonprofit foundations are setting up their own for-profit companies to compete with traditional software companies. A key question for them is "How can you to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
other, offering thirty channels of programming in eight languages. STAR's evolution indicates, first of all, the abiding preference—demonstrated in all regions around the world—for local TV programming, even if it costs much more than... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
argued that high-expected-value projects that might otherwise not have been funded through traditional channels (owing to the high risk involved) were increasingly funded during this period, apparently out of the fear that they would... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
Yet this is not some superficial "be best" or "make time for weekly dates" philosophy, but rather an earnest and increasingly instinctual gravitation toward wanting with all your heart what will empower the other and allow you to become one of many View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
and faculty to share best practices and interim learnings; use channels like Harvard Business Publishing and Working Knowledge to reach wide audiences. Other HBS Resources—Leverage opportunities such as MBA Program Independent Projects... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
effective channel strategy, and produced high and increasing EBITDA margins. After holding it for eight years we decided to sell to the private equity firm Madison Dearborn, after the firm’s cofounder, Paul Finnegan (MBA 1982), made the... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Our results thus identify a causal effect of poverty on crime. They also lend credence to a large literature on the effects of weather shocks on crime and conflict, which has usually assumed that the income channel is the most relevant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne