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  • 17 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler Periodical:Economic Journal 117 (2007): F189-F217 Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 18

personal selling to successfully promote products and brands in the marketplace. In this study, we jointly examine the effect of mass-media advertising and personal selling in the context of U.S. presidential elections, where the former... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details
Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

the Mekong Delta, where you have the same. The US producers felt that they were being threatened by cheap fish from Vietnam, and local politicians went all the way up to Washington, which imposed a series of trade barriers. The costs are borne by View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Faculty Books

Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours by Robert C. Pozen (Harvard Business Review Press) Senior Lecturer Pozen offers practical tips on how to prioritize efficiently and maximize time at work while leading a full and View Details
  • 10 Dec 2007
  • HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

agreed to manufacture the laptop. On the technological front, OLPC tackled puzzles such as creating a product both useful and fun for children of primary school age. (See CloseUp below). But despite its visionary goals and widespread... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer
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In Charts: Like Einstein, Global Inventors Bring Big Ideas Across Borders | Working Knowledge

Inventors who move across borders—or global mobile inventors as we refer to them—are a rising global phenomenon leaving a clear footprint in the diffusion of technologies,” says " Global Mobile Inventors ," a study published in the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

A Call to Innovation

much as 80 percent of gross domestic product flows from the introduction of new technologies. But at the end of the day (and that end may be arriving sooner rather than later, the book suggests), Kao concedes that the rise in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Telecommunications; Information; Management
  • 16 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

be used to forecast product life cycles at scale. In two empirical studies, one of search interest in social networks and the other of new computer sales, we demonstrate that our model outperforms leading View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Fair Trade

across other product categories, including both mass and luxury segments, and geographically. In the Eyes of the Beholder The spread of megabrands, and the continued diffusion of French and American beauty... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade
  • Student-Profile

Anil Doshi

services. We collected individual performance data and found tremendous potential in providing beneficial services to our users that required the aggregation of that data. I became more interested in understanding how the disclosure, aggregation, and View Details
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

into a productive working relationship? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413099-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 512-047 Four Products: Predicting Diffusion (2011) An updated "Four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Student-Profile

Mengjie "Magie" Cheng

Magie Cheng (she/her) worked for a social network company in their machine learning group and spent much of her time analyzing user behavior for a wide range of social networking applications. She became intrigued by technology diffusion... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

term scale and scope. Though tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in the production of nearly all crops, they first developed with much more limited application. Early View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

The Past Informs the Future of Work

multinational company with operations in 26 countries and numerous international partnerships. In 2017, the company had more than half a billion mobile, fixed, and TV customers. During case discussions, students explore Vodafone’s strategy for View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information
  • 22 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

institutions? The answer, the authors argue, is yes. The key lies in market-creating innovations: products and services that speak to unmet local needs, create local jobs, and scale up quickly. Examples include MicroEnsure, which has made... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Sep 2000
  • What Do You Think?

Whither the Information Economy?

the end is better products and services. According to Bob DeNoble, "... information is a tool to help get the real work done. It enables us to produce food, clothing, and shelter, run our transportation and banking systems, and keep... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

work on knowledge diffusion demonstrates that knowledge flows along these collaborative relationships, even years after they were formed," says Fleming. At the same time, the world of inventors "is getting smaller," he... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing
  • 20 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

design-driven innovation is pushed by a firm's vision about possible new product meanings and languages that could diffuse in society. Design-driven innovation, that plays such a crucial role in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

as well as the subsequent diffusion of new innovations to the immigrants' home countries. In June, Kerr and nine other HBS faculty members spent six days in China to learn more about entrepreneurship in one of the world's fastest-growing... View Details
Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer
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