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- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
Complementors: An Empirical Look at Amazon.com,” co-written with Qihong Liu, an associate professor of economics at the University of Oklahoma. In June 2013, Zhu and Liu identified 163,853 products for sale by third-party retailers via... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Michael Gilbert (MBA ’67) (Hunter Press) Family Wars: Classic Conflicts in Family Business and How to Deal with Them by Grant Gordon (OPM 30, 01) and Nigel Nicholson (Kogan Page) The American Military after 9/11: Society, State, and View Details
Keywords: Management
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest. China seemed without peer. Decline came fast. By 1900, China had been invaded,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Roundtable. These findings are consistent with the view that financial markets placed a positive value on shareholder access, as implemented in the SEC's 2010 Rule. The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
Content Commercialization: Evidence from Blogs, published last year in Management Science, Zhu and coauthor Sun, of Boston University, bring an empirical approach to a question that has had many anecdotal responses but no firm results:... View Details
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
Change Authors:Chonnikarn Fern Jira and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Suppliers are increasingly being asked to share information about their vulnerability to climate change and their strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They vary widely in their responses. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
Motions: An Empirical Test of Management Involvement in Process Improvement," HBS professor Anita L. Tucker and Harvard School of Public Health professor Sara J. Singer show that communicating with frontline workers can backfire if... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
reach that level of trading volume. Building A Consumer-products Empire But the negatives haven't scared off consumer products giant Procter & Gamble. Since 1987, the company's Latin American sales have grown by 4.5 times to $2.8... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between service capacity costs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
guaranteed. These investors might want to hold bonds in their portfolios for their ability to hedge their spending needs. Similarly, empirical research by academics and practitioners alike suggest that the annualized volatility of stock... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory Author:Michael Beer Publication:In Research in Organizational Change and Development. Vol. 19, edited by Richard Woodman, William Pasmore, and Abraham B. (Rami) Shani, Emerald Group... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Student-Profile
Rohan Kekre
premium on research that is highly relevant to the real world. On more occasions than I can remember, an advisor has asked, “Do you really believe that assumption?” or “What empirical evidence is consistent with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
to permanently gain the trust of their clients, coworkers, partners, and constituents. Crosley: Two Brothers and a Business Empire That Transformed the Nation by Rusty McClure (MBA ’75) with David Stern and Michael A. Banks (Clerisy... View Details
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
inducing immediate execution of the order are functionally equivalent to bid and ask prices and can be solved for various transaction sizes to characterize the market maker's entire supply curve. We find considerable empirical support for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum
common understanding of the structural inequalities that current leaders have failed to address. Just as Quantitative Analysis and Empirical Methods taught techniques to analyze issues and Policy Design and Delivery offered frameworks to... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
people say and instead concentrate on what people feel—is profound. Of course data matters, but not exclusively, and especially not in a ‘me-tail’ world.” Empire of Things How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of the substantive, theoretical, and methodological contributions. With empirical chapters from across the contemporary Global South, including India, Mexico, and China, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
empirical regularities, and we quantify our framework by matching Census Bureau operating data with patent data for U.S. firms. We observe that internal innovation scales moderately faster with firm size than external innovation. Download... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
scant direct empirical research on how human interaction patterns change as a result of these architectural changes. In two intervention-based field studies of corporate headquarters transitioning to more open office spaces, we View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion - Course Catalog
Co-Chair and Designer of the HBS Flagship Family Office Executive Education course ‘Building a Legacy: Family Office Wealth Management.’ Professor Cohen has a joint appointment in the FIN and EM units, specializing in innovation, behavioral finance, and View Details