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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
substantially expanded social value, but also pose unusually difficult challenges because the merging entities are often strikingly different in philosophy and operating styles as well as in scale. We examine three examples—Ben and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
experts have deemed this approach inadequate. As Pankaj Ghemawat notes: The emphasis on folding non-market considerations into the analysis of market relationships tends to focus on the effects of non-market variables . . . at the expense... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
grocery-shopping system that grouped cold cereals by their main ingredients (rice, corn, or wheat, for example). Many shoppers had trouble finding their favorite brands because they didn't know the ingredients. Lesson 6: Study The Effects... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
design decisions, asking themselves the following questions: 1) Are we providing too much information? In many cases, the simplest, most effective change a platform can make is to withhold information such as race and gender until after a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
hospital bed for immobile patients and a rubber heel for walking casts.) But retail billionaires such as Walmart's Walton family generally make their money by figuring out the most effective ways to manage goods and services, even if the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
says, "but lack of talented people starved them both." The situation was dramatically different with CarOrder.com, which was able to hire approximately two-thirds of its technical employees through Trilogy's on-campus recruiting process, widely acknowledged... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
the effects on subsequent reporting periods and competitor behavior are greater than previously documented. Paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-073.pdf Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-granted Rules of Self-censorship at Work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
significantly higher for companies with a wider divergence between the corporate insiders' control rights and cash-flow rights, suggesting that companies whose corporate insiders have larger excess control rights are more financially constrained. The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
http://www.amazon.com/Business-History-Elgar-Walter-Friedman/dp/1781955263/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389789862&sr=1-2&keywords=Business+History+Jones+and+Friedman August 2013 Management Science The Distinct Effects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
information aggregation treatments do not affect total equity investment when we make the investment environment more realistic than in prior experiments. Previously documented aggregation effects are not robust to changes in the risky... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to admit. Using a unique data set of 9,661 software contests, we provide evidence of two coexisting and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
the method prepared future business leaders, however, Harvard faculty and administrators have long been aware of a nagging truth: learning how business operates and actually doing business are very different things. No matter how well... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
per capita and, thus, lower cost of capital. We also explain that the variation in revenues per capita was both a product of the variation in natural endowments and a commodity boom that had asymmetric effects among states. These two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
consider other constituencies too: e.g., vendors who are stuck operating under the big players’ rules; innovators, who can’t make their better ‘mouse trap’ available to the world without the resources of the big players; citizens, whose... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
operates on a strategy of low costs, low fares, full planes, and rapid turnarounds to keep those planes in the air, thus reducing the cost of an airline’s most costly asset. It fills (often secondary) airports so successfully that there... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
be, "What customers does the company choose to serve?" A company that is not strategic serves whatever customer appears, or whatever need presents itself. This notion of operational effectiveness... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
in index funds while $310 billion exited actively managed funds. But have they become too popular? Researchers and analysts are increasingly concerned that managers in companies with a large number of passive fund investors can too easily View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
ventures. The net effect is that women are viewed as being less driven by the concept and, consequently, less serious about their commitment to the enterprise. We know that the caregiving responsibilities of parenthood fall more heavily... View Details
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
Manufacturing commons are "webs of technological knowhow, operational capabilities, and specialized skills" that underlie many industries, universities, and the government. Also, see Professor Jim Heskett's conversation with his readers... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
for bailing out a financial institution. First is to protect the system for processing payments, like checks, because that system is critical to the operation of the U.S. economy. Second is to avoid a situation where the failure of one... View Details