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- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
had very different perceptions of the effectiveness of K-12 education, however: Business leaders characterized the system as "poor and deteriorating" compared to other advanced nations' while superintendents saw it as... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
the other side with the other's "behind-the-table" barriers to successful agreement. Following Robert Putnam's (1988) two-level games schema, I characterize such "behind the table," or... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
Influencing Human Behavior By: Reddy, Sheila M., Jensen Montambault, Yuta J. Masuda, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth Keenan, William Butler, Jonathan R. Fisher, and Stanley T. Asah Abstract—Behavioral sciences can advance conservation by systematically identifying behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
top management must seize hold of the substantive content of the new strategy as well as its operational implementation—a top-down intervention we call deep dive—in order to overcome barriers View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
in their own way. Five barriers in particular tend to keep promising managers from becoming exceptional leaders: people overemphasize personal goals, protect their public image, turn their competitors into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
conflicts, often 1) by pressing for deal terms that will meet internal objections and 2) by effectively "selling" the agreement to key constituencies. Far less familiar territory involves how each side can help the other side... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
complained of intense time and productivity pressures, these issues were seen as a barrier only for women, defined as "work/family conflict." Meanwhile, measures taken to combat work/family issues... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
Affect Credit Ratings? Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two agencies, Moody's and S&P, leading to longstanding legislative and regulatory calls for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
promising entrepreneurs. In such instances, the marginal individuals selecting into entrepreneurship when they can bypass bank screening will tend to start businesses that are of lower quality than the average existing businesses, leading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
leading players in these clusters are multi-location firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage knowledge for competitive advantage without... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
barriers to terminating relationships), the nature of performance change (a gradual decay in performance can increase the likelihood that firms will persevere in underperforming relationships),... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- August 2012 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
Public Health Insurance Exchanges: The Massachusetts Experience
By: Regina Herzlinger and Jordan Bazinsky
The CEO of Tufts Health Plan, James Roosevelt, is wondering whether to offer insurance products on the Massachusetts Connector, the first U.S. exchange. He wonders if he should enter these uncharted waters at all. And, if yes, with a broad network or a narrow network... View Details
- September 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
RightHand Robotics: Choosing the First Market
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Stacy Straaberg
In early 2015, RightHand Robotics’s (RHR) leadership faced a set of decisions in commercializing the startup’s robotic picking solution. RHR’s central product was the RightPick integrated robotic picking system which featured a robotic arm, a three-fingered robotic... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Market Entry and Exit; Product; Research and Development; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Information Infrastructure; Technological Innovation; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Massachusetts
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Stacy Straaberg. "RightHand Robotics: Choosing the First Market." Harvard Business School Case 824-006, September 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
strong global presence and experience, did not effectively address critical barriers to adoption. The company now planned to overhaul Afrezza’s entire marketing strategy. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
NEAD). NEAD chains create "bridge donors" whose incompatible recipients receive kidneys before the bridge donor donates, and so risk reneging by bridge donors, but offer the opportunity to create more transplants by overcoming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using U.S. Census microdata on firm-level output, R&D, and patenting. The model provides a good fit View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Haber and Aldo Musacchio Abstract In 1997 Mexico allowed foreign banks unrestricted entry to the market. What impact did foreign mergers and acquisitions have on Mexico's banks? We find that all banks in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
change and adapt to the situation," Brahimi advised. "Don't ask reality to conform to your blueprint, but transform your blueprint to adapt View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
at coping with industry change is not just due to such commonly cited barriers as insufficient resources, he says. "Managers get trapped by success, a condition that I call active inertia, or... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
dominates the negative within-firm effect post IPO. We build a firm industry model with endogenous entry to quantify the importance of two competing selection mechanisms: an increasing share of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne