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  • 09 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 9

opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a story of U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

design, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. Consequent mishaps slow down the performance of MISHA, and after five years of the product being in the market and four financing rounds, numbers are far behind what they were in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

under plausible assumptions regarding this altruism and the reaction of consumers to firms that demonstrate insufficient altruism, existing firms (or brands) can face a larger demand for new products than new entrants. Moreover, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

have succeeded, one is still in its nascent stages, and one is "pivoting," Cook said. In lean-start-up lingo, pivoting means taking a major change of course based on user feedback—the idea being that it's easier to change the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services
  • 18 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

product and the activities associated with making and selling it. Selling becomes a function of individual "heroic" efforts, not a scalable platform for profitable growth. Equally important, this inhibits adaptive learning—a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

  Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and Promotion By: Alfaro, Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

information is being used and being sold?" As we show in the case they’re being profiled right down to minutiae. They can pretty much identify who you are. Kenny: Let's go back to the beginning of the case. What was sort of the View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
  • 29 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

climate change and other crises,” Ndidi Nwuneli says. “There is an urgent need to transform and strengthen our food ecosystems.” AACE Food Processing & Distribution Ltd., cofounded by the Nwunelis in 2009, processes, packages, and distributes branded food View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 20 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

Research Agenda Author:Roberto Verganti Periodical:Journal of Product Innovation Management (forthcoming) Abstract Recent studies on design management have helped us to better comprehend how companies can apply design to get closer to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing

ourselves). Happy Money provides valuable information not only for pleasure-seeking consumers, but also for companies looking to increase the happiness of both employees and customers. The following excerpt describes how the power of limited access led to fanatical... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to the agglomeration of domestic firms? Using a unique worldwide plant-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real depreciations are associated with faster growth of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

The development of corporate integrated reporting (IR) standards has the promise to be one of the great business innovations of the 21st century, and could be pivotal in restoring public trust in business institutions, Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting
  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

of tomorrow's innovative new products, arguing that companies must reinvest in new product and process development in the U.S. industrial sector. Only by reviving this "industrial commons" can the world's largest economy build... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

this period, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) delivered some important technologies for the corporation. One of the most critical inventions was laser printing for Xerox's printers and copiers, an effort that led to new Xerox View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

K., and Laurence A. Green Abstract—Following a brief summary of Henry A. Kissinger's career, this paper describes three of his most pivotal negotiations: the historic establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People's Republic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208070 iPhone vs. Cell Phone Harvard Business School Case 708-451 The launch of Apple's iPhone marked a pivotal new chapter in the story of mobile music (the uniting of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

company has decided to pivot from operating biomass gasification plants towards developing solar microgrids in India and East Africa. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Husk-Power/an/815023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

A legendary professor at Harvard Business School for 40 years, Georges Doriot was a pivotal player in the founding of the modern venture capital industry. As Spencer E. Ante's new book notes, venture capital per se is as old as commercial... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

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