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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
affected by XML technology. Ballmer concluded by noting that any business whose product can be delivered electronically (e.g., publishing, music) will do well on the Internet. But all CEOs, he said, should ask themselves, "What is View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
the responsibility elsewhere so they have more time for their passions, whether that’s their careers, hobbies, or travel. Despite the big differences in operations, the investment strategy Wealthfront pursues is not dissimilar from a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
What have you learned about Japan? It’s a land of clarity and ambiguity. Think of a Japanese painting with a beautifully detailed willow branch against a landscape of fog. Contradictions and paradoxes abound. While it’s a very group-oriented society, it also prizes the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world today (La Porta et al., 1998, 1999 and passim). This paper examines the persistence of the effects of legal origins by examining new estimates of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
who were catapulted onto the global stage by the fight against men who bought and sold women.” What was different about writing Daughters as compared to your two earlier books? Maybe I’ll start with what they have in common: The... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
what exactly is a developmental relationship? It pivots on the experience that an individual has when they're engaged in their work, he said. That experience can be heavily slanted along racial or gender lines, he added, offering an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
consistent with these ideas, some policy practice and much of the academic criticism of policies inspired by Porter's cluster work have taken a different direction, looking instead into ways of creating clusters. The fifth section... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007
economic motives behind individual concerns for privacy. Recent theories of privacy demands in commercial contexts have assumed an economically aware and sophisticated consumer, capable of evaluating the indirect consequences of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
management level.” If only they could be heard. Often these individuals remain buried in hierarchy, impacting only their isolated areas of influence. In the working paper Organizational Toolmaking: Transformations in the Influence of... View Details
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
are not so different from organizational teams in other fields of life, including business. And watching the career moves of football stars may shed light on how you, too, can plan your next step. That's the message of new research by HBS... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
recommendation levels, additions and deletions of records, and removal of analyst names. The changes appear non-random across brokerage firms, analysts, and tickers, and have a significant impact on the overall distribution of recommendations across stocks and within... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different standalone utilities to users. We find that incentives to establish one-way compatibility—the platform owner with smaller standalone... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26
Publications International Marketing Review Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different Are Japanese and American Founders? By: Deshpandé, Rohit, Amir Grinstein, Elie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
asymmetric information concerning the value of a new technology affect the strategies of the platforms and the market outcome. We find that the incumbent dominates the market by setting the welfare-maximizing quantity when the difference... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
while commuting to work influences work outcomes. Across two field studies and one field experiment, we find that individuals higher in trait self-control are less likely to report negative effects of longer commutes. While commuting,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
was managed out after about 18 months. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Eleven years later, I am thriving in a completely different role in a completely different industry. I use my MBA, I have... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
spirit, and insight—simply breaks the mold. Youngme Moon's DIFFERENT is that kind of book, a book for "people who don't read business books...," a book that feels like an intimate conversation with a friend who has thought... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
victim to California’s statewide budget cuts. “Susan’s group came up with a new model of distributing funds district-wide instead of school-by-school,” Scheel explains. “Because of that, PiE appeals not just to individual donors, but also... View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
Harlan Cleveland's piece, "Information as a Resource" that appeared in 1982 in The Futurist. In it, Cleveland, a scholar and former Undersecretary of State, argued that a society based on information would look very different... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Apr 2025
- News
Celebrating 40 Years of Kraft Family Fellowships
college students, individuals from lower-income households, and others with limited access to elite graduate education. HBS Dean Srikant Datar underscored the profound importance of the Krafts’ support: “Having the voices of students in... View Details