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- 2019
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When Gender Diversity Makes Firms More Productive
By: Stephen Turban, Dan Wu and Letian Zhang
Does diversity make a company more productive? Many say yes—some researchers argue that gender diversity leads to more innovative thinking and signals to investors that a company is competently run. Others say no—conflicting research indicates that gender diversity can... View Details
Turban, Stephen, Dan Wu, and Letian Zhang. "When Gender Diversity Makes Firms More Productive." Harvard Business Review (website) (February 11, 2019).
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
in others and show that all these definitions are equivalent. We then introduce a new class of substitutable preferences that allows us to model intermediaries with production capacity. We also prove that substitutability is preserved... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2011
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Faculty Research Online
thinking too much or thinking too little. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6630.html. From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher During a panel discussion on entrepreneurship, Professor Bill Sahlman and several successful start-up veterans examined... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
January 2025. PayJoy: Financing for the Next Billion By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott January 2025 | Case | Faculty Research PayJoy, an impact-driven financial technology company founded in 2015, provides smartphone financing and... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
hired. The data is consistent with horizontal differentiation of CEO behavioral types and firm-CEO matching frictions. We estimate that 17% of sample CEOs are mismatched and that mismatches are associated with significant productivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Finance - Faculty & Research
Paper, No. 25-057, May 2025. RTX’s Lifetime Income Strategy: Shaping the Future of Retirement By: Daniel Green , Luis M. Viceira and Sarah Mehta May 2025 | Case | Faculty Research Set in 2024, this case explores the Lifetime Income... View Details
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Medical devices: Competitive products
What are the substitute and/or competitative medical products? You may begin with the following approaches: Check market research reports. You may begin with: BCC Research Frost & Sullivan Medical... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the impact and reach of some of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- October 2004 (Revised July 2010)
- Case
Product Team Cialis: Getting Ready to Market
By: Elie Ofek
Lilly and ICOS are preparing for the launch of a new drug, Cialis, to compete against Viagra. To position against the incumbent firm Pfizer, which developed and markets Viagra, and other newcomers into the erectile dysfunction market, they must determine how best to... View Details
Keywords: Communication Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Segmentation; Pharmaceutical Industry
Ofek, Elie. "Product Team Cialis: Getting Ready to Market." Harvard Business School Case 505-038, October 2004. (Revised July 2010.)
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Strategy - Faculty & Research
[Research Summary]: Framing is critical for leaders who must build support for strategic renewal. While research has concentrated on renewal that replaces one set of capabilities with another, we explore a distinctive challenge: how... View Details
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
research on secondary products or customers. Now, nice-to-knows that are not essential will have to wait. Enlist trusted partners. Marketers and research suppliers who trust... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
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R&D: A Small Contribution to Productivity Growth
By: Diego Comin
In this paper I evaluate the contribution of R&D investments to productivity growth. The basis for the analysis are the free entry condition and the fact that most R&D innovations are embodied. Free entry yields a relationship between the resources devoted to R&D and... View Details
Keywords: Research and Development; Investment; Interest Rates; Performance Productivity; Technological Innovation; Perspective; United States
Comin, Diego. "R&D: A Small Contribution to Productivity Growth." Journal of Economic Growth 9, no. 4 (December 2004). (This paper was featured in BusinessWeek and Il Corriere Della Sera.)
- 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
hedonic products to enhance their enjoyment of future consumption occasions. Current approaches to becoming expert center on cultivating an analytic mindset. In the present research the authors explore the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
formidable research and teaching talents on bringing business-focused solutions and perspectives to address these problems. Some examples: In Zambia, Nava Ashraf and several colleagues conducted field studies to determine if charging for... View Details
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National Innovative Capacity and the Ideas Production Function
Joint research with Scott Stern (MIT) is exploring the determinants of innovative capacity across countries using time series/cross-section data ("Measuring the "Ideas" Production Function: Evidence from International Patent... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
Leadership ; Leadership Style ; Leading Change ; Management ; Product Design ; Product Development ; Organizational Change and Adaptation ; Organizational Culture ; Organizational Design ; Strategic Planning... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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Research Brief: Better Brainstorming
buy the product, and whether the product had business potential. The researchers discovered that the ideas that were rated the highest were created through interaction between those with a high openness... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research
personal and organizational effectiveness. Although specific research interests span a wide range of subjects, the faculty share a problem driven, interdisciplinary, multi method approach that has led to significant impact on theory and... View Details
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The New New Product Development Game
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka
Takeuchi, Hirotaka, and Ikujiro Nonaka. "The New New Product Development Game." Harvard Business Review 64, no. 1 (January–February 1986).