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- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
hasn’t always been a given. It has been built and is continuing to be built over time, through experience and data. We need to extend these discussions by proving the return on time- affluent work policies. This work has already begun. We need to View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
long-standing feature of economics. The theoretical arguments focused traditionally on the ability to exploit gains from trade, essentially leading to higher productivity by exploiting comparative advantages. Over time, arguments related to the exploitation of View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 04 Feb 2022
- Book
Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries
siloization, however, has been reified by many scholars writing about the Left even after the end of the Cold War. A large part of this can be explained by the difficulties involved in accessing archival resources in communist and former communist countries, as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
small part of the larger whole. To a certain extent, this is because of the advantages of specialization that Adam Smith identified in pin manufacturing as long ago as 1776 in The Wealth of Nations. However, it goes beyond the economies... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
in states like Massachusetts to be unduly expensive and prevents growers in states like California from achieving economies of scale because of limited market size. Small, fragmented markets also limit... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
for very long. After all, an outsourcer of these services enjoys economies of scale that virtually no internal support unit can hope to match. An outsourcer can shift operations to the lowest-cost regions of... View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
us the background and how you think about innovation? Gary Pisano: Probably the greatest economist of the 20th century was Joseph Schumpeter. He was really the godfather of the economics of innovation. He described a process he termed “creative destruction,” whereby... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
acquisitions and geographic roll-ups consolidate businesses, they can be difficult to tell apart except on a case-by-case basis. However, they vary in some fundamental ways. For one thing, their strategic rationales differ. Roll-ups are designed to achieve View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
contractors they can work 20 hours per week and still get paid for 40. “Work is not the only thing on people’s minds right now. Their families, their bills, childcare and school closures, the economy we are all trying to manage a lot,”... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
defensive for years. Organizations have been delayering—eliminating middle management jobs—to try to be more agile, with faster decision making and execution. Downsizing in the name of economies of scale has... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
and view this page again, you will be able to play this video. Jeffrey Fear Jeffrey Fear has been an associate professor at Harvard Business School since 2001 in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit. Chandler's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
organization on the MSP-reseller continuum is an important strategic decision for many intermediaries. What drives that decision? In their paper, Hagiu and Wright identify four key economic trade-offs between operating as a reseller and an MSP: Resellers enjoy View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
becomes, which lowers the likelihood of a winner-take-all outcome. Lastly, the truly successful firms in a platform world tend to have meaningful supply-side scale economies. Markets with large economies of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
about nearly everything you want to know about managing family conflict, scaling a startup, picking talent, leading turnarounds, and engaging with private equity. The novels I’ll be reading are my perennial favorite legal thrillers and... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
strategies at different geographic levels. Assessing the level—global, continental, subcontinental, national, intranational, or local—at which scale is most tightly tied to profitability is often a helpful guide to determining what... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
Value A transnational brand is the corporate brand of firms that market globally in order to leverage economies of scale and scope, according to HBS professors Douglas Holt, John Quelch, and co-author Earl... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
as AOL (now AOL Time Warner) are defining the business models that are reshaping the global business landscape and redefining power.— Lynda M. Applegate The point within a value chain where maximum economies of View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
Government officials should have poured much more money into producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines to save more lives and rescue the economy faster, according to new research co-authored by 16 researchers including Harvard Business... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?
Andresen Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who led the discussion. In the old model, he said, economies of scale regulated success and performers had to be big to spread out high fixed costs. Now,... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
Summing Up Do increases in social sector productivity, which seem to prevail at least in the U.S., benefit consumers at the expense of workers? Or is the scale weighted in favor of the latter who may benefit two ways, in terms of both an... View Details