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The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity
By: Laura Alfaro
We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001-2010. We uncover the following stylized facts about regional variation of manufacturing firms'... View Details
- 07 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back
retention when compared to competitors. It was fun to find a virtuous cycle within a business model that has nothing to do with the network effects of a tech platform. The case... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
advertising budgets are currently spending the bulk of their money outside the Internet media market. WPP's Sorrell notes that "in the last... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- March 9, 2023
- Article
Linking Growth and the Frontline
By: Frank V. Cespedes, Jay Galeota and Michael Wong
Most strategies are about growing the business. But about one quarter of companies do not grow at all and, even before the pandemic, only one in eight achieved more than 10% revenue growth annually, according to data from S&P Global regulatory filings. One reason is a... View Details
Cespedes, Frank V., Jay Galeota, and Michael Wong. "Linking Growth and the Frontline." Sales & Marketing Management (website) (March 9, 2023).
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
Ghemawat says, "but hope springs eternal." For proof of that - and of the vagaries attached to overcapacity - one need look no further than the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
The following articles were the most read pieces on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge in 2012. Now two questions for you. What do you think was the most View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Truth About Authentic Leaders
The debate over which form of leadership works best seems settled, in my view. Most leading companies globally are focusing on developing "authentic leaders" within their ranks. Executive courses... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 18 Sep 2020
- HBS Seminar
Megan Frederickson, University of Toronto, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
- 23 Jun 2015
- News
Reinvent the Olympics, Boston tech-style
- Blog
Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season
lovers. Visit an art museum. Boston has several art museums with impressive collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum, and View Details
- 14 Oct 2011
- News
Steve Jobs, the Immediate Case Study
- 21 Mar 2019
- HBS Case
The Ferrari Way
evaluating new technology is whether it has staying power. “You have to get a good sense of the trajectory and if it’s ready for prime time,” Thomke says. Equally important is... View Details
- 2025
- Working Paper
Transferability MATTRs: Towards Understanding Antecedents of Strategic Licensing
By: Dafna F. Bearson and Maria P. Roche
This paper examines the antecedents of firms’ decisions to license intellectual property
(IP). We propose a conceptual framework emphasizing two critical factors: (1) transferability,
which we define as the ease of moving knowledge embodied in inventions across
firm... View Details
Bearson, Dafna F., and Maria P. Roche. "Transferability MATTRs: Towards Understanding Antecedents of Strategic Licensing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-042, March 2025.
- 29 Aug 2011
- News
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
- 2019
- Working Paper
The Creative Consulting Company
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Richard Nolan and David P. Norton
During the past 50 years, several consulting companies introduced important new ideas that extended management theory and improved management practice. This paper draws upon public sources and the authors’ personal experiences to describe how three management... View Details
Keywords: Management; Theory; Practice; Performance Improvement; Innovation and Management; Consulting Industry
Kaplan, Robert S., Richard Nolan, and David P. Norton. "The Creative Consulting Company." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-001, July 2018.
- 19 Oct 2016
- HBS Seminar
Luís Cabral, NYU Stern School of Business
- April 2025
- Article
The Fed and the Secular Decline in Interest Rates
In this paper I document a striking fact: a narrow window around Fed meetings fully captures the secular decline in U.S. Treasury yields since 1980. By contrast, yield movements outside this window are transitory and wash out over time. This is surprising because the... View Details
Keywords: United States Treasury; Monetary Policy; Yield Curve; Bonds; Financial Markets; Government Administration; Valuation; Interest Rates; United States
Hillenbrand, Sebastian. "The Fed and the Secular Decline in Interest Rates." Review of Financial Studies 38, no. 4 (April 2025): 981–1013. (Editor's Choice selection and Winner of the WFA Brattle Group Ph.D. Award for Outstanding Research.)
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting
By: Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun and Quoc H. Nguyen
No firm or sector of the global economy is untouched by innovation. In equilibrium, innovators will flock to (and innovation will occur where) the returns to innovative capital are the highest. In this paper, we document a strong empirical pattern in green patent... View Details
Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment; Decision Making; Policy; Energy; Green Technology; Technological Innovation; Patents
Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Quoc H. Nguyen. "The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 27990, October 2020. (Winner of the Fordham University Gabelli School of Business – PVH Corp. Global Thought Leadership Grant on Corporate Social Responsibility, 2020.)