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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
with the Japanese," says M. James Kondo (MBA 1997), Twitter's managing director, East Asia, explaining the social-media company's popularity in Japan. "Japanese was the first non-English language that Twitter supported—we now support over... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Organizations." Coote noted that trends such as intense competition, faster cycle times, slimmer margins, and new business models have forced widespread company restructurings - changes that corporate information technology (IT)... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
awareness. We use a network approach to demonstrate that the connections between two countries through joint-membership in the same IGOs are associated with a large positive influence on the foreign direct investment that flows between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
lower bound of 2 and an upper bound of m, thus leaving a large gap. They conjectured that their upper bound is tight but were unable to prove it. Despite many attempts that yield positive results for several special cases, the conjecture... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
minimize temporal distance—that is, largely on a North-South axis,” the paper says. Read the paper: The Effects of Temporal Distance on Intra-Firm Communication: Evidence from Daylight Savings Time. Jasmina Chauvin, Prithwiraj Choudhury,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment
the recent Climate Change Challenge assignment in Technology & Operations Management, a required first-year course taught by Mike Toffel, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and BEI faculty chair. More than 900 students were asked to choose a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
to better understand the needs of this large and important segment of the HBS community. I want to use the balance of this letter to update you on the committee’s impressive progress. I’ll go into similar detail about the other committees... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
a variety of dynamic, in-demand work engagements). But many times, the greatest ideas arise out of opportunity. And often, the best businesses are created to address a market gap. In this case, it was both. Cheney had spent six years post HBS working in strategy for... View Details
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
reduction and process improvements. Cost-reducing process innovations benefit large firms most; hence the emergence of a dominant design will trigger an industry shakeout and consolidation. What we observed in the rodeo kayaking industry... View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
into four components of workflow. Results: 8,312 patients who had a head CT were included in this study. The median cycle time from patient arrival to head CT preliminary report was 3 h and 13 min with 39 min of waiting time resulting from bottlenecks. In the 4-step... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We study how a stock index can affect corporate behavior by serving as a source of prestige. After decades of low corporate profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 index was introduced in 2014. The index selected 400... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
experiment. The two experiments use the same methods and subject pool and examine games randomly selected from the same distribution. The current introductory paper presents the results of the estimation experiment and clarifies the descriptive value of some baseline... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
technology for assistance, using natural language processing to analyze word patterns and common themes. This approach helped complement the impressions I carried of these conversations with data—and ensured I wasn't bringing my own... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
September 2018 Strategy Science Applying Random Coefficient Models to Strategy Research: Identifying and Exploring Firm Heterogeneous Effects By: Alcácer, Juan, Wilbur Chung, Ashton Hawk, and Gonçalo Pacheco-de-Almeida Abstract—Strategy... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
proven approach to analyzing and solving challenges and provides a common language anyone can understand. Teams That Work: The Six Characteristics of High Performing Teams by Cliff Chirls (MBA 1979), George Myers, and Tom Champoux... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
distance" is extremely low, especially in high-potential ventures. People like Bill Gates and Larry Ellison, who are able to lead their companies for quite a while, get all the attention because they are rare, not because they are typical. NB: What do we know... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
digital camera back in the early '90s, but didn't actually come out with it until 1996 because it was trying to figure out a way to bundle it with a printer that would use Polaroid instant film. That fit into its "mental model" of how it made money. Q: How... View Details
- 30 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)
testing a new work environment. “I had worked at two smaller companies and founded a startup, so I thought, ‘What’s the opposite of that in retail?’” Krantz said. When she saw an internship opportunity at Dick’s Sporting Goods posted on the HBS recruiting platform, the... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details