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- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
companies, where decision rights and incentives can be murky, and the effects of any given choice can be tough to pin down. So the authors chose a “lab rat” with fewer barriers to understanding—the venture capital industry. VC firms are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
using money to buy time can protect people from the detrimental effects of time pressure on life satisfaction. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52953 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
"Success has always been an American preoccupation, but the definition of success takes on a new urgency today, when every conventional measure of success seems to have a faster burn rate than ever before," say Laura Nash and... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
diminishing audiences. Theories abound as to the most effective strategy for crafting a TV commercial—where and how often to place a brand in the ad frame. Some suggest using small, nonintrusive instances, while others recommend the... View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
World Series just completed with a Boston Red Sox sweep of the Colorado Rockies, we asked Elberse to discuss the business of sports marketing and the unique case of Maria Sharapova. Sarah Jane Gilbert: What is the growth rate of the... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
approaches. This can explain why the Fed stopped basing monetary policy on the quality of new bank loans, why it stopped being willing to cause recessions to deal with inflation, and why it was temporarily unwilling to maintain stable interest View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
insights gleaned from the survey, Kempczinski says that the customers’ negative ratings on McDonald’s convenience were the most surprising. “We felt like we had a birthright on convenience,” he says, “so that was a wake-up call.” Again,... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
plus city and industry fixed effects explain between sixty and eighty percent of manufacturing entry. We use spatial distributions of natural cost advantages to address partially endogeneity concerns. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
competitive advantage because trust can increase the gains from trade for firms and their suppliers. In this study, we document a particular type of competitive advantage conferred by trust. Using adoption rates of a new product as a case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
Companies are increasingly looking to emerging markets like China as a vital source of growth. The problem is these companies often lack an effective strategy for identifying which countries to do business with. In a June Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
the financial capital of the world was fully functional and that terrorism would not stop the American economy. Secondly, the city's economy needed to have the exchange back in business." (The city's financial sector generates 26 percent of the city's economic output... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007
that did not enforce and did not change enforcement of non-compete laws, we find that relative mobility decreased by 34 percent in Michigan after the state reversed its policies. Moreover, this effect was amplified 14 percent for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
PublicationsThe New M&A Playbook Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising, and Andrew Waldeck Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Companies spend more than $2 trillion on acquisitions every year, yet the M&A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
schools took some responsibility. The conversation was cut short upon the entry of the United States into World War II. After World War II, business schools experienced one of their fastest growth rates as a consequence of the GI Bill.... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
simulate it, which means, on the computer, you would launch a golf ball at it and watch it come off. And the simulation program would measure the speed the golf ball was moving at, its spin, all that. And it would give you a really good idea of how View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
organizations, a deep sense of purpose was their key to growth. Humans are wired to find meaning in what we do, and tapping into that can have a transformative effect on an organization—and the people who work there. Here, in a... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
and suggest the effects on subsequent reporting periods and competitor behavior are greater than previously documented. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-073.pdf Geography, Poverty and Conflict in Nepal (revised)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
medical system, however, new science has to clear a high hurdle before it has an impact on practice. This caution is sensible in some arenas, but personalized medicine results in safer and more effective therapy choices, not higher risk.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
inequality. And rising inequality is directly imperiling democracy. Rather than a screed against capitalism, this book is a call for capitalism to return to its roots, reenergizing its synergies with democracy. Raymond Baker explains the View Details