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- September 1991 (Revised May 1994)
- Background Note
Note on the PC Network Software Industry--1990
By: David B. Yoffie
Examines the economics, technology, customer segments, and competitors of the PC networking software industry. View Details
Keywords: Customers; Economics; Competition; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Information Infrastructure
Yoffie, David B. "Note on the PC Network Software Industry--1990." Harvard Business School Background Note 792-022, September 1991. (Revised May 1994.)
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Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
networked resource. Casson, Mark. The World's First Railway System: Enterprise, Competition and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain . New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Chandler, Alfred D. Henry Varnum Poor,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
1987 book with Harvard professor Ezra F. Vogel, Ideology and National Competitiveness, looked at the relationship between ideology and economic performance. In the mid-1980s, Lodge joined HBS professor Bruce R. Scott in contributing to... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the choice of both competitive actions and organizational design, the paper makes an attempt at bringing economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
cost, but is also a function of the competitiveness of the upstream economy. Moreover, the presence of a gray market competitor may cause unintended social welfare consequences when domestic governments mandate the use of arm's length... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and consumer preferences, there is a specific pattern of economic transmission whereby demand-side shocks propagate upstream (to input-supplying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
economic battlefield, emerging markets like Russia -- where Nestlé is active -- represent valuable new territory for the highly competitive consumer foods business. Nestlé, the world's largest packaged-food... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
Japanese competition. In the second research stream, conducted with Wheelwright, Bruce Chew, Takahiro Fujimoto, Kent Bowen and Marco Iansiti, Clark made the case that product development could be managed in new ways that would lead to significant View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
Development will launch a competition created by Shenkar to bring economic drivers of clean tech to West Africa. "It is a tremendous business challenge," she says, "but, just like in the early days of the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
2016 Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development By: Beckert, Sven, and Seth Rockman, eds. Abstract—During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Justifying Executive Pay In response to “Over the Top” in the September issue, it’s not a question of whether executive pay can be justified on legal or economic grounds (I believe it can). It’s a question of what is right and what is... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector
This paper describes how the gaming of society's rules by corporations contributes to the problem of institutional corruption in the world of business. "Gaming" in its various forms involves the use of technically legal means to subvert the intent of society's rules in... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Civil Society or Community; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Trust; Law; Performance; Investment Funds; Private Sector; Behavior; Relationships; Goals and Objectives
Salter, Malcolm S. "Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-060, December 2010.
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
Many people today are focused on the global economic crisis, but Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter sees also a global crisis of business. The model of American capitalism that worked so well to raise the fortunes of... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 18 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Brand China Can Succeed
Its double digit economic growth rates—especially for a country of over a billion people—have been enviable. China has become factory to the world. The Chinese are rightly proud of their achievements and the 2008 Olympics promise to be... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
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A Life’s Work | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Microsoft, and American Express. Within four months of completing the program, 85 percent of graduates (who now number over 5,000) are employed or attending college, earning an average of $32,000 per year. “The reason we’ve grown is because those young adults are View Details
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
firms aim to replicate success, and how they find, foster, and sell potential blockbuster products. Also illustrates how similar efforts by competitors increase each firm's dependence on a handful of hits. Contains detailed unique View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
Here then are our most-read stories in 2006. Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win? Using formal economic modelling, professors Pankaj Ghemawat and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell consider the competitive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
Yet, such episodes also create business opportunities – and not just for the hedge funds and speculators that profit from them. Managers that have and use a coherent framework for understanding and analyzing these phenomena will enjoy a View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
Conference on November 7. Beaulieu's research focuses on many aspects of healthcare—including contracting, quality competition in managed care, and human capital management and performance measurement. At the session, she prodded her... View Details