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- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory constraints. As common in practice, the retailer does not know the consumer's purchase probability at each price and must learn the mean demand from sales data. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
research as well as economic, organizational, and cross-disciplinary methodologies. The innovative process is broadly considered here, as well as the technologies that result from it, including business model innovation, service-level innovation, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
through affective mechanisms. Working Papers Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom, and William Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
has good information about cost and demand functions, product quality, and optimal output mix. Profit centers—defined as business units whose managers have responsibility for overall profits but not the authority to make major capital... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
rationale as to why this union-backed legislation is needed and why it is good for employees. Alas, he didn’t. In my 20s and 30s, I directly supervised a total of several thousand hourly workers in at least a dozen departments in both New... View Details
- 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007
software product over its entire lifetime, comprising six major "releases." In particular, we develop measures of modularity at the component level, and use these to predict patterns of evolution between successive versions of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
each of the HBS faculty member's recent insights as described in Management 21C. The Genius Factor Mention the word "genius" and what comes to mind? Most likely a lone person gifted with extraordinary intellectual powers, talents, and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
travels on Twitter." And of course as an employee of the company and somebody who uses the product pretty heavily, I had been posting some photos of our meetings in Cannes that week in the south of France. So Piero was correct on that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
certain connotations, both positive and negative. I thought I was jumping into a tank full of sharks. I was prepared for overly aggressive, type A people. I am happy to say that I was totally surprised by the collaborative spirit here and... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
(c) accountability in implementation. Examples are drawn from the experiences of South Africa and Brazil. Several preliminary factors are identified that may enhance policy learning, while acknowledging the constraints of bounded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
long-term relationships, not transactional relationships where immediate price (for employees, salary) and cost are the only factors in decisions. Q: You and your coauthors spoke with 36 CEOs based on three continents. Why did you choose... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
allocated to sustainable funds that invest in companies with specific environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors and goals. Since 2015, when the US Department of Labor began allowing pension fund managers to incorporate ESG... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
about it. Some are comfortable with being known because there is some mission that they are trying to communicate, and others truly need consumers to experience the art itself. In the latter case, the chef needs to be able to scale up View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
entrepreneurship but also in the dynamics of the free-enterprise system itself. In 1975, venture funding in the United States totaled about $50 million. Today, it is somewhere between $50 and $100 billion. What triggered this explosive... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
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strong distribution plan.” -From “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel One common misconception is that product innovation alone is a winning tactic. It is not. Often the critical success factor is exactly how a firm... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
clothing and accessories inspired by Hellenic heritage, was to source silks and embroidery from traditional craftswomen throughout the region, whose skills were no longer finding demand, and sell the products internationally. It was a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
who?" Of course, the directors cannot and should not be overseeing the day-to-day affairs of the corporation. But the board can do its best to empower every employee to be ethical. Just as total quality management calls on managers... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
percent of Hong Kong's exports involve China either as a source or market, and 60 percent of the total investment in China is channeled from the territory. In addition, he said, Hong Kong is an outward-looking economy that serves a wider... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
reductions in higher-order multiple (HOM) live births (defined as three or more fetuses), following the initial publication of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) guidelines on ET in 1998. Design: Descriptive use and cost analysis. Main Outcome... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
want to be rebels, to be totally autonomous, free from institutional constraints to find their own adventures. Yet they don't want to be castigated as immature, lacking the willpower and social-mindedness to take on important... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls