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    Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity

    We live in a dynamic economic and commercial world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In many industries, changes in products and technologies have brought with them new kinds of firms and forms of organization. We are... View Details
    • September–October 2024
    • Article

    Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday

    By: Jasmina Chauvin, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tommy Pan Fang
    This paper examines the effects of temporal distance generated by time zone separation on communication in geographically distributed organizations. We build on prior research, which highlights time zone separation as a significant challenge, but argue that employees... View Details
    Keywords: Communication; Employees; Behavior; Equality and Inequality
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    • 30 Sep 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

    Buyers are more apt to use a product right after they purchase it, a fact you need to ponder as you consider how to keep customers coming back for more. In this e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Manda Mahoney, Harvard Business School professor John... View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies

    By: Valeria Giacomin
    Clusters are defined as geographically concentrated agglomerations of specialized firms in a particular domain. The cluster concept in its broader meaning of industrial agglomeration has been the focus of longstanding debates in the social sciences. This working paper... View Details
    Keywords: Industry Clusters; Research; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; History; Analysis; Globalization
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    was placed in receivership on the morning of March 10. HBS Working Paper Prices and Concentration: A U-shape? Theory and Evidence from Renewables By: Michele Fioretti, Junnan He and Jorge Tamayo We show that when firms compete via supply... View Details
    • 18 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

    must grow crops even as the available water supply to his operation is curtailed by drought conditions, court decisions, and quotas imposed by government agencies. The case examines how water, a basic building block of agriculture, is... View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness
    • 13 Feb 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

    Weight Loss: A Randomized, Controlled Trial," published in the June 2011 edition of Journal of General Internal Medicine. TIP #3- Fill your backpack with rocks. A research team from Harvard and the University of Central Florida tested the View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 28 Oct 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

    gradually. You build a Honda Scooter, then a Honda Civic, then a Honda Accord, and then an Acura. There is a lot of theory and research on how consumer behavior and perception changes over time. And that... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
    • 21 Sep 2023
    • HBS Seminar

    Pinar Ozcan, Saïd Business School

    • 20 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

    parlayed his fame as a celebrity real estate developer into a winning pitch to voters as a Washington outsider. Emphasizing his decades of experience as a wheeler-dealer building luxury hotels, casinos, and golf courses around the world,... View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
    • 12 Dec 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

    Organizational Behavior The Energizing Nature of Work Engagement: Toward a New Need-Based Theory of Work Motivation By: Green, Paul, Eli Finkel, Grainne Fitzsimons, and Francesca Gino Abstract—We present View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Dec 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Towards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting

    Keywords: by Abigail Allen & Karthik Ramanna; Accounting

      Location Choices under Strategic Interactions

      The literature on location choices has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics. However, most industries with a significant presence of multi-location firms are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that strategic interaction among firms... View Details
      • 30 Oct 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: October 31, 2006

      international economic and financial crises highlights the need for a comprehensive framework to assess the robustness of national economic and financial systems. This paper proposes a new comprehensive approach to measure, analyze, and manage macroeconomic risk based... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 25 Jul 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

      departments and in the relationships among faculty and administrators. It is written into course catalogs, into standards for admitting students and promoting professors, and into strategies for raising funds and recruiting athletes. It can be seen in the campus View Details
      Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
      • 2015
      • Working Paper

      The Cooperative Solution of Stochastic Games

      By: Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman
      Building on the work of Nash, Harsanyi, and Shapley, we define a cooperative solution for strategic games that takes account of both the competitive and the cooperative aspects of such games. We prove existence in the general (NTU) case and uniqueness in the TU... View Details
      Keywords: Economics; Game Theory
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        Strong Brands, Strong Relationships

        From the editor team of the ground-breaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice comes this new volume. Strong Brands, Strong Relationships is a collection of innovative research and management insights that... View Details

          Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work

          Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get started. What they lack are guidelines and tools that transform abstract... View Details
          • 08 Jun 2012
          • Working Paper Summaries

          Location Choices Under Strategic Interactions

          Keywords: by Juan Alcacer

            Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions

            Business transactions take widely varying forms―from multibillion-dollar corporate mergers to patent licenses to the signing of an all-star quarterback. Yet every deal shares the same goal, or at least should: to maximize the joint value created and to distribute... View Details