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- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
conducting research in order to understand what sort of product language might be most successful. (This research is less of the focus-group variety and more View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18
modification, pain-relieving drugs) as either a complement to, or substitute for, surgical procedures, and patients were actively engaged in the process of determining what type of care to pursue. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
local economies where they do business. We asked Harvard Business School professor C. Fritz Foley to discuss the research, which he conducted with Lee Branstetter and Raymond Fisman, both of the Columbia... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
A&P lost that position. This fact it learned the hard way in 1972 when it launched a price war. The hostilities were conducted under the banner of WEO, which was supposed to stand for "Where Economy... View Details
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
crisis as a disrupter to the status quo and look for areas of pain. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading your company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
explain service performance. This paper provides a brief retrospective of some of this research and illustrates the directions that this work will take in the future through the vehicle View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act slated to be signed this week by U.S. President Barack Obama has been called the most sweeping set of rules for banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression. But what do... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
article reviews recent research conducted by the authors that finds that intellectual property rights reform increases technology transfers, foreign direct investment inflows, and industrial development. It also places the findings View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
phenomenon—it did not really become popular until the early- to mid-1990s. A second reason is that it is difficult to uncover detailed information and conduct quantitative research. Because most project companies are private companies,... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30
longitudinal data from 68 multi-method case studies of organizational change initiatives conducted at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom support these predictions and advance a relational view... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008
information asymmetry in credit markets and problems connected with this phenomenon. However, institutional aspects—particularly, how information is gathered and shared—have not been studied as thoroughly. Only recently has research been View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
several years ago in Asian Business magazine's annual most admired companies survey, Siam Cement Group (SCG) was one of the first firms in Thailand to develop its own written code View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19
opportunities and challenges posed by global climate change. The case analyzes the operations of Colbún to illustrate the complexities associated with conducting business under the influence View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests
many online marketplaces of the so-called sharing economy. “To facilitate trust, many online platforms like Airbnb encourage sellers to provide personal profiles and even to post pictures of themselves” says... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends
investment opportunity for Ann M. Bilyew, Principal, Advent International. She's also interested in medical devices, miniaturization of devices, and biotech. "We're thinking five, six, ten years out," she said. For example, she... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
conduct research and gain access to company managements. Clusters allow companies to operate more productively than where they must do things themselves (vertical integration) or where they must outsource goods and ideas from distant... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
methodology based on topic modeling and sentiment analysis to illustrate that such data can be used to generate insight about the relationship between a firm’s past financial performance and the language and tone of speeches by the firm’s... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
India, China), but they overlook significant ethnic markets within the United States. For example, the combined African-American and Hispanic markets in the U.S. are larger than the economies of all but 13 countries, and more than 2... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
triggered by federal engagement in very productive ways. The chemicals industry is really the outlier in the set because much of the innovation there was conducted in the private sector. Like energy,... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
embrace Western models of professional organization as they now exist, or to set off on an independent path, adapting elements of Western practices to their own historical and cultural situation. In doing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne