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- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
a period of financial repression. Nationalization led to lower interest rates and lower quality intermediation and may have slowed employment gains in trade and services. Development lending goals were met,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
of Summit's funds that were ten years old or older were in the top quartile, and he said he believed the 1999 fund he's involved with would likely occupy a similar spot when exits were made and the returns counted. "But that means single-digit (internal View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
proprietary solution. (Music on the iPod can't play on non-Apple devices.) It's very interesting that Apple is allowing HP to resell iPod. It's their first baby step into trying to really get into the mass market and becoming more of what... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
lights when we leave the room or recycling our bottles," Karmarkar says. "Bringing bags is interesting in that it's a difficult thing to remember to do, and actually requires a fairly big behavioral change on the part of the... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
then they want to do something interesting and new with it. And so the work of a string quartet playing at this level becomes an entirely new creation, a new version of one of Beethoven's string quartets, for example, unlike anything that... View Details
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
It used to be that you risked detention for disrupting an elementary school classroom. Nowadays, disrupting the entire school system can earn you millions of dollars in startup funding. Consider AltSchool, the idea of entrepreneur Max... View Details
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
information content. The theory yields interesting results about the informational role of targeted advertising and its consequences. First, targeting can itself serve as a signal on product attributes. Second, the effectiveness of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
insurance persuades consumers across the nation to deposit funds in higher interest CDs in Puerto Rico banks and in non bricks-and-mortar, low-cost Internet banks such as ING Direct. Safety First Financial brands today must address the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
interesting dichotomy for us when he said, "(Hamel) implies that it will be management who leads ('pulls') the innovation . In my opinion the drive for innovation will come from ... newer generations ... (leading to) a 'push' of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
problems arise from distortions in the way information is collected," as well as from poor statistical methods." Application and use problems arise from corporate risk aversion and the difficulties people have in recognizing... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
on the faculty at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business," Stuart says. "I was part of a committee examining why there wasn't a more vibrant life sciences industry in the Chicago area when all of the requisite ingredients were in place. I... View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
produced. Asymmetries of motivation would be on its side if it used the innovation to reach nonconsumers in developing countries; its competitors were not interested in pursuing what seemed to them to be a fringe opportunity. In addition,... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
Procedural Justice and the Risks of Consumer Voting, written with Darden School of Business Assistant Professor Tami Kim and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Todd Rogers. Name this space These days, firms encourage customers to vote on... View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
compensation. We would note similar problems if we were to look at auditors, at investment analysts, at rating agencies, at virtually every aspect of the governance system in our economy. It's not true of every one of every kind of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
associated moral hazard often goes unnoticed. Such a risk can prove even greater when the various elements of the "delegation chain" obey different standards. What does this have to do with the ongoing Rupert Murdoch case?... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
they best be addressed by individuals free to choose, communities (represented by governments) interested in influencing choice, or a combination of both? What do you think? Original Article With the death of John Kenneth Galbraith on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
the more traditional interest rate and tax channels-suggests new considerations in assessing the impact of government spending on private sector economic activity. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
visible, important ways. This hypothesis is reinforced by a growing number of academic studies indicating that a dollar spent on IT returns at least as much as a dollar spent on other forms of capital in many industries. These findings raise an View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
"self-reporting in surveys and focus groups is a limited tool, and I have no doubt that in the future brain scans will augment traditional research methods." But for Mark Spellmann, research of the kind associated with neuro economics raises "many View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett