Filter Results:
(1,556)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,194)
- People (2)
- News (293)
- Research (1,556)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (824)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,194)
- People (2)
- News (293)
- Research (1,556)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (824)
Sort by
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
corporations as the main sources of innovation in our economy. Innovation proceeds differently in business ecosystems than in pre-industrial markets or ring-fenced corporations. Innovation in ecosystems requires collective action to both... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
firms' corporate board members, using data from a private research company specializing in biographical information on company officials. Looking at the data, the team found a large correlation between the ethnic makeup of a firm's board... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
Competitive advantage. Corporate strategy. The competitive advantage of nations. All over the world these terms quickly bring to mind the groundbreaking work of HBS professor Michael Porter, whose two decades of research on these and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
practitioners often exhibit confusion about whether the terms "integrative" and "distributive" refer to behavior or to underlying issue structure (or both). Third, the authors develop the "Distributive Bargaining... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
Cores, while closed collocated organizations tend to develop systems with larger Cores. Our findings represent a first step in establishing some "stylized facts" about the fine-grained structure of large, real-world technical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
Beginning with Chile more than twenty years ago, Latin America has experienced a wrenching yet exciting transformation of its predominantly inward-looking, state-driven economies to a robust acceptance and practice of open-market principles. View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
destroy value by adding administrative costs and leads to structures involving health plans and providers and other actors, which are misaligned with patient value. In a world of zero-sum competition, for example, providers will... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
reinterpretation of ideas related to agency conflicts and a holistic view of corporate financial strategy that examines payout and capital structure decisions jointly. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
Werker's study. "Legal rights were weaker, it took more time to register property [and] more money to start a business, and there were higher corporate taxes and informal payments to government officials. Infrastructure was poorer... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
offer a structural approach to answering this question, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2) reviewers to be influenced by existing reviews, and (3) product quality to change over time. Applying this approach... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
in global supply chains have engaged in activism that led transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor their suppliers for compliance, but it is not clear whether these organizational View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
The prizes encouraged competition and medals were particularly effective. The boost to innovation we observe can only be partly explained by the re-direction of existing inventive activity. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-118.pdf The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Technological Eclecticism Could Help Journal of Applied Corporate Finance Amar Bhidé “Keynes thought it would be ‘splendid’ if economists became more like dentists. Disciplinary economics has instead become more like physics in focusing... View Details
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
empowering its black affinity network led to a sevenfold growth on the continent of Africa in seven years. He also is researching the dynamics that lead to blacks being chosen as chief executives—focusing on the corporate View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
the largest corporate donors to principal candidates in closely watched congressional races manage earnings downwards in the two quarters immediately preceding the 2004 election. We find no evidence of such downwards earnings management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
corporate disclosures overseen by the SEC. The benefits of national comparisons are compelling and will unleash a tidal wave of improvements in quality and efficiency. An obvious—and relatively uncontroversial—starting point would be to... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
must change the way it supports basic and applied scientific research to promote the broad collaboration with business and academia needed to tackle society's big problems. Second, corporate management practices and governance View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
achieving results across the entire system, moving from planning to action and ensuring fidelity of implementation on such an enormous scale is very difficult. Redesigning the structures and systems of a district so that they are coherent... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
suggests that the effect of distance should vanish over time, a hypothesis that we confirm in the data and that distinguishes technology from other flows like goods or investments. We then structurally estimate the model. The parameter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
regulations become protection for them against legal liability. This occurs in two ways: (1) those actions not proscribed by law are presumably legal, and ways to mislead buyers are continually being developed, and updating of law is slow... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills