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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Chairman, President & Chief Executive, The Procter & Gamble Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Hamilton College, 1969 A.B., History LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "The case study method had such an enormous... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
five decades. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55921 The Impact of Mass Shootings on Gun Policy By: Luca, Michael, Deepak Malhotra, and Christopher Poliquin Abstract—There have been dozens of high-profile mass shootings in recent... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016
which casts the profit-seeking incentives of firms as the main driver of technical change. In a series of influential writings, von Hippel and colleagues found empirical evidence that flatly contradicted the producer-centered model of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
databases). We also show that it reveals the main "flow of control" within the architecture, as denoted by the classification of components into Core, Peripheral, Shared, and Control elements. We analyze the cost of change for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
from its main competitors such as multinational Danone in that it is a 270-person workers' cooperative with 60 percent of its membership made up of mentally disabled individuals. Since its establishment in 1982, the organization has aimed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
corporations as the main sources of innovation in our economy. Innovation proceeds differently in business ecosystems than in pre-industrial markets or ring-fenced corporations. Innovation in ecosystems requires collective action to both... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
millennials who use a mobile device as their main screen, he adds. This level of engagement has been noted by marketers, as consumers—particularly millennials—become more and more adept at tuning out traditional advertising in favor of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Illustration by Marcos Chin It’s market day in Barrio Curtidores, which means the main thoroughfare is packed with shoppers perusing makeshift stands that offer everything from jeans and blenders to vegetables and tacos. Moto-taxis... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
investment attractive to Wall Street and Main Street. REITs take off. Starved for capital in an environment where all the usual money sources had dried up, many major commercial property owners took their companies public in the form of... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
gamification techniques to engage and motivate employees to learn. This study empirically examines the performance consequences of gamified training by conducting a field experiment in a professional services firm. We find that the main... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
delegate decisions to integrated suppliers. We test the predictions of the model using a novel dataset that combines measures of vertical integration and delegation for a large set of firms from many countries and industries. In line with the model’s predictions, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
exist when couples are present. This article's main result is that a stable matching exists when there are relatively few couples and preference lists are sufficiently short relative to market size. We also discuss incentives in markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
Foreign investment in developing countries has always involved an element of risk. Just ask Verizon Communications, which could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in Venezuela should President Hugo Chávez follow through with plans announced in January to nationalize... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
where the ideas often come from in the first place. Q: What are the main findings of your research on the resource allocation process? Gilbert: In certain settings, the resource allocation process is inherently a multi-level process in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
has become the leading player in the wireless data services arena in Brazil. SW has successfully concluded 2 rounds of financing, its main investors including Softbank, Intel Capital, Ericsson and Pactual (Brazil’s largest investment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
thing in common: Harvard MBAs. Visitors to Crawford, Texas, get presidential treatment. A billboard with the town’s most famous part-time resident, President George W. Bush (MBA ’75), gives the “thumbs-up” while First Lady Laura Bush beams at his side. Souvenir shops... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
Center for Community & Population Health Improvement to facilitate the sharing of information and impact data about health improvement efforts among community stakeholders. General Dynamics subsidiary Bath Iron Works and L.L. Bean in View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
There are a vast number of ways that this might potentially make our lives better and happier. And there are just as many ways that Facebook can go awry. If the main driver is to use the technology for invasive and intrusive paths toward... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
downturn in returns are more likely to infer that prices would continue to go up. We thought the experimental work was interesting, but wanted to know whether those results had anything to do with real-world financial markets. Our main... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
the country club's rules by going to lunch there with a white colleague. "You could have cut the tension with a knife," recalls Rogers, who was met by his boss when he returned from lunch and told that next time, unfortunately, the club would not seat him in the View Details