Gains From Multinational Production - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2010
News

How to Survive Past Start-up

falter? What sets successful founders apart from those whose new ventures fail? Starting in 2008, I set out to interview hundreds of highly successful entrepreneurs in depth, hoping to reverse engineer what had led to their outsized... View Details

Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

"While companies might have an intended strategy, the strategy that actually emerges can be very different," says HBS professor Clark G. Gilbert. It is a topic that Gilbert and professor Joseph L. Bower have explored at length for a new book they have edited,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2015
News

Screen Grab

Home Entertainment, the network’s DVD and digital distribution division. “The most exciting thing about this area is waking up and knowing that whatever you thought was true yesterday is not true today.” In April the company, after some deliberation, launched HBO Now,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

the leading firm would be costly and could lead to both companies charging less, explains MacKay. One surprise finding of the research was that firms with inferior pricing technology also benefit from this arrangement, so investments in... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

organizations around the world are facing. RH: And every organization outside of health care is watching how hospitals like MGH think through this return to elective care. Educational institutions, large firms, any place with a large campus will benefit View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

In the debate over whether to increase or decrease the stringency of environmental regulations, the possibility that government agencies might use purchasing to stimulate market demand for "green" products and services is often... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

using data from the recent redesign of the NYC High School match, which places approximately 90,000 students per year, we document that the extent of potential efficiency loss is substantial. Over 6,800 student applicants in the main... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2000
News

No Place Like Home

those costs tend to offset any tax-base revenues gained from housing. By contrast, with light industry, towns get the tax base without having to add a lot of social services. So communities that are chasing... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

The twenty-first century will be the age of alliances. In this age, collaboration between nonprofit organizations and corporations will grow in frequency and strategic importance. Collaborative relationships will increasingly migrate from... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About

will need to be resourceful to embrace new opportunities that come your way. I believe that as you look back at your HBS experience a few years from now, you will remember not what you lost , but what you View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

serious illness and its attendant financial insecurity could one day focus instead on a brighter, healthier future. A Cornell graduate who holds an MBA from Boston College, Rhenisch was for years well employed and enjoyed excellent... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

23 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition

congratulating me from friends on the East Coast.” Kiran Gandhi, musician, entrepreneur: “I was buying some bananas from a 7/11 in Seoul, South Korea, when the email appeared in my inbox. I was with a dear... View Details

17 Jan 2019
News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

2017), Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015), Anthony Tucker (MBA 2017), and Anish Pathipati (MBA 2016) How did you find out you had been named to the 2019 "30 Under 30?" Akash Pradhan, investor, TPG Capital and TPG Growth: “I woke up to text messages congratulating me View Details

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

Over a dozen years ago, HBS professors Ben Shapiro and Kash Rangan conducted research with colleague John J. Sviokla, focusing on the impact that a company's order management cycle (OMC) has on customers. Think of OMC as the process that manages the customer's order... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

05 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

Fellow Marco Piovesan, whose research on how temptation influences work productivity included field experiments with children tempted by soda and candy at an Italian summer camp. "Understanding where these preferences and their behavior... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 1

their products directly to buyers) or as a reseller (purchasing products from suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a decision between whether control rights... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Print View - Course Catalog

academically. And yet its entrepreneurial and management learnings have broad application beyond restaurants. Sited within General Management, this course explores exactly that. We will run the gamut from planning for the first restaurant... View Details

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

12 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

deployment. People in other countries definitely get more bandwidth for less money. Some countries, such as South Korea, appear to be far ahead. Whether or not this will have major business consequences remains to be seen. Q: What sort of insights do you hope managers... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

11 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business

field of neuromarketing, which uses brain-tracking tools to determine why consumers prefer some products over others. And there is neuroleadership, which applies neuroscience to management research. Looser is looking to integrate insights... View Details