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  • 24 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

locations differ in their ability to support the frontier, but also due to standard agglomeration. Different industries use different aspects of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
  • March 2015 (Revised April 2015)
  • Case

The Heat Is On: Emerging Ecosystems in the Thermostat Industry

By: David Collis and Ashley Hartman
Beth Wozniak, President of Honeywell Environmental and Combustion Controls (ECC) at Honeywell International Inc., spun around in her office chair, reflecting about how the classic, mature thermostat industry was rapidly evolving. In February 2014, Google paid $3.2... View Details
Keywords: Honeywell; Thermostats; Internet Of Things; Smart Thermostats; Google; Nest; Apple; HomeKit; SmartThings; Partnerships; Platforms And Ecosystems; Linkages; Communication Protocols; Strategy; Technology; Home Automation; Connected Home; Buildings and Facilities; Energy; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Partners and Partnerships; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Energy Industry; Electronics Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 01 Aug 2017
  • News

Finding Purpose in Profit

Growing up, Kim Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) explored careers as varied as attorney and Anglican priest. “I knew that I wanted to lead and to fight for justice and social good,” she says. “Ironically, I’m doing that now but on a far different... View Details

    How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy

    As the world globalizes, countries compete for the markets, technologies, and skills needed to raise their standards of living. These strategies can make--or break--the government's efforts to drive and sustain growth. In How Countries Compete, Richard... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2018
    • News

    In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

    because my mom took me to work.” Namesake: Destined, a movie that turns on one chance-based event to portray two very different outcomes for a teenage boy growing up in Detroit. Why real estate: “My mom did... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna
    • 09 Jan 2020
    • Book

    Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

    fundamental in fact, Iansiti and Lakhani argue that it’s crucial for firms to reinvent themselves around these new technologies and capabilities to not only grow, but compete and survive. ”It’s not disruption. Rather, it’s a completely... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 12 Nov 2020
    • News

    All in the Neighborhood

    Photo courtesy of Angela Hicks Photo courtesy of Angela Hicks As native Hoosiers, Angie’s List cofounders Angela Hicks (MBA 2000) and Bill Oesterle (MBA 1992) knew they wanted to ground themselves in a community where their business could... View Details
    Keywords: community; volunteer work; corporate social responsibility; entrepreneurship; leadership; Personal Services
    • 24 Apr 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Bank Accounting Standards in Mexico: A Layman’s Guide to Changes 10 Years after the 1995 Bank Crisis

    Keywords: by Gustavo A. Del Angel, Stephen Haber & Aldo Musacchio; Banking
    • 01 Mar 2023
    • News

    What’s in a Name

    name that recognizes the city’s rich cultural history. Jim Birch was reaching out to buyers across the country—with no thought at all of changing the brand—when he started encountering questions. People in View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
    • Research Summary

    Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

    Part of the fear and misunderstanding of state capitalism in the post-Berlin Wall era stems from the fact that most observers see state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as inefficient soviet companies. In Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and... View Details

    Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Development Banks; State Ownership; Development Economics; Management; Energy Industry; Banking Industry; Brazil; China; Europe; Latin America; Asia
    • 01 Jun 2014
    • News

    FIELD 2 in Accra

    career in the energy sector. "We can help these countries develop more efficient and equitable ways of doing business." Even as an HBS student, Leach notes that the trip to Ghana began to make him feel part of the HBS mission of making a... View Details
    Keywords: FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Information
    • August 2019 (Revised February 2020)
    • Teaching Note

    Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up

    By: Leslie John and Mitch Weiss
    Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

    The case serves as a microcosm of issues of digital privacy: the availability of data – personal data in particular – has tremendous potential to improve people’s lives... View Details
    Keywords: Privacy; Privacy By Design; Privacy Regulation; Platforms; Data; Data Security; Behavioral Science; Analytics and Data Science; Safety; Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Consumer Behavior; Digital Platforms
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    • 23 Aug 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Field Evidence on Individual Behavior & Performance in Rank-Order Tournaments

    Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau, Constance E. Helfat, Karim R. Lakhani & Michael Menietti
    • 01 Feb 1999
    • News

    All in the Family

    you're the president, but our differences about how to run it are getting bigger, and our relationship is deteriorating quickly. I think the best thing is for me to leave." The elder Pellegrin, 58 years old, was momentarily stunned. His... View Details
    Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
    • Spring 2016
    • Article

    Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design

    By: Kevin J. Boudreau, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael E. Menietti
    Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random assignment. Precisely conforming to theory predictions, the... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Innovation Strategy
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp

    By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Oliver Tercieux
    In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions in a single-offer assignment mechanism known as OneApp. The RSD also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top... View Details
    Keywords: Education; Decision Choices and Conditions; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Design
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    • April 2004
    • Article

    Do CEOs in Mergers Trade Power for Premium? Evidence from 'Mergers of Equals'

    By: Julie Wulf
    I analyze chief executive officer (CEO) incentives to negotiate shared control in the postmerger governance of the surviving firm. In order to do this, I study abnormal returns in a sample of "mergers of equals" (MOEs) transactions in which the two firms are... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation; Governance Controls; Power and Influence; Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Motivation and Incentives; Market Transactions
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry

    By: Hong Luo, Jeffrey T. Macher and Michael Wahlen
    This paper studies a novel, light-touch approach to aggregate judgment from a large number of industry experts on ideas that they encounter in their normal course of business. Our context is the movie industry, in which customer appeal is difficult to predict and... View Details
    Keywords: Judgment Aggregation; Creativity; Film Entertainment; Judgments; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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    • November 2020
    • Article

    Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda

    By: Livia Alfonsi, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman and Anna Vitali
    We design a labor market experiment to compare demand- and supply-side policies to tackle youth unemployment, a key issue in low-income countries. The experiment tracks 1700 workers and 1500 firms over four years to compare the effect of offering workers either... View Details
    Keywords: Employment; Training; Competency and Skills; Developing Countries and Economies
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    • October 2018 (Revised July 2019)
    • Case

    Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up

    By: Leslie K. John, Mitchell Weiss and Julia Kelley
    Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

    By the time Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, began hosting a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session in January 2018, he had only nine months remaining to convince the people... View Details
    Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; CivicTech; Smart Cities; City Innovation; Government Innovation; Privacy; Sidewalk Labs; Dan Doctoroff; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Consumer Behavior; Governance; Business and Government Relations; Innovation and Invention; Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Transportation Industry; Real Estate Industry; Canada
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