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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
context in which to study the missing link. Product development cycles are long, usually between seven and ten years. Millions of dollars are spent before a product ever gets to market. Uncertainty about the viability of a company's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 12 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program
forced to scale back their plans or exit markets entirely. Because of a combination of cultural context and a lack of robust systems to ascertain the trustworthiness of unknown market participants, building and maintaining strong... View Details
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2024 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 14 student essays that... View Details
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IFC: Saudi Arabia; A Nation and its Oil Economy Reimagined - Course Catalog
in-country experiences. These sessions will explore the business and economic setting, along with aspects of the social and geopolitical context. They will also introduce students to frameworks for better understanding the broader institutional View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
cognitive problem. The PCs simply did not make sense to DEC, given their customer context and their cost structure/business model. “Disruptive Tech 101” When Clay Christensen speaks of disruptive and sustaining technologies, he uses the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
study of brand relationships outside of traditional areas by applying new theoretical frameworks and considering new contexts (online digital spaces, consumer collectives, global brands, luxury brands, and branding in terrorist... View Details
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
In the new book International Strategy: Context, Concepts, and Implications, Harvard Business School Adjunct Professor David J. Collis presents a comprehensive guide to a topic of ever-increasing relevance for managers across all sectors and industries. By first... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
am planning to reread. A recent surprise for me was Houdini, His Life and Art...I couldn’t put it down. Houdini was just a relentless genius in so many ways. Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development. What’s on your list? I enjoy books that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
and racism are built into markets, business systems, and technology. The T.R.A.P. Lab has developed an algorithm audit platform that collects data about the outcome of an algorithm within a particular context and then assesses its impact... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
greater overall satisfaction with their lives. One of the things we are working on now is understanding how decisions about time, money, and happiness play out in the context of romantic relationships. What is the optimal way you and your... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
explosion of trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality and wage competition in a context of ruthless international... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
upside down and might end up destroying it altogether. Some people even predicted that one huge trust would come to dominate the entire American economy. This may seem funny now, but in the context of the times it did not. At the turn of... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
relationship; (b) reviews the literature on antecedents, consequences, and integration of M&A in the context of innovation; and (c) identifies potential directions of further research on this topic that have both theoretical and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
out, they can see events in context and as examples of general trends. They are able to make decisions based on principles. Yet a far-out perspective also has traps. Leaders can be so high above the fray that they don't recognize emerging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
theory, we show how and why these anomalies may occur when cross elasticities are estimated for pairs of brands that are substitutes. We empirically examine these issues in the context of the widely used Multiplicative Competitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
environmental standards in the United States and overseas. “I don’t think Nike or Levi’s relishes this role, but in the context of weak government regulatory regimes, it’s these companies’ brand reputations that are on the line when... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
enterprises. The focus is on supply- and demand-side factors that help explicate cross-border expansion. The article explores how appropriability-informed and legacy-shaped entrepreneurial imagination motivates a process of creation and co-creation of the cross-border... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
show how this process of experimentation can be particularly valuable in the context of entrepreneurship because most new ventures fail completely, and only a few become extremely successful. We also shed light on important costs to this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We test our theory in the context of vehicle emissions testing in a state in which the government has outsourced inspection... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
chapters draw upon systematic interaction with companies and practice and this is presented in the examples and the case studies cited. The Handbook of New Product Development Management surveys this area in the context of an overall... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace