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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

ability to adapt to these evolving occupational demands varies widely among firms and countries, exerting substantial influence on productivity growth at both micro and macro levels. As we navigate these technological waves, the... View Details
  • 13 Jan 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Modularity on Intellectual Property and Value Appropriation

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Joachim Henkel
  • October 2023
  • Case

CornerUp: Digitizing the Corner Store

By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, Stacy Straaberg and Diego Zainos De La Sota Riva
In July 2023, Jason Diaz, co-founder and CEO of CornerUp, assessed the progress of his business-to-business e-procurement software application (app) startup, founded in January 2022. CornerUp began as a fast-moving consumer packaged goods (FMCG) distributor in New York... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Small Business; Transition; Decisions; Social Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Disruptive Innovation; Market Participation; Digital Platforms; Trust; Business Strategy; Expansion; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 28 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

Many newspapers saw the emergence of the Internet as an attack on their core business, and responded with online products of their own. Unfortunately, says HBS professor Clark Gilbert, the papers failed to take advantage of the Web as a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

    John A. Quelch

    John A. Quelch is Executive Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. He is also John DeButts Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.  Between 2017 and 2023 he was the Leonard M. Miller University... View Details

    Keywords: consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products
    • November 2015
    • Case

    Rubicon Global

    By: William A. Sahlman and Hunter Ashmore
    The case describes Rubicon Global, a startup that aimed to disrupt the waste management industry. The company started with a bold idea: create a cloud-based, full-service waste management company providing low-cost, highly efficient, and environmentally friendly... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Rubicon; Rubicon Global; Waste Management; Startups; Disruptive Technology; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Entrepreneurship; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business Startups; Corporate Finance; Service Industry
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    • 02 Feb 2016
    • First Look

    February 2, 2016

    decompose the productivity decrease that arises from taxation, we estimate that 40% is due to the lower net wage and the remaining 60% to tax aversion. This tax aversion affects labor supply more on the extensive margin (working less)... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 3

    hamburger. A previous iteration of this product had been taste-tested live, with good results, and Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, had provided Post with much of the funding to make the burgers. The next step was to form an View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 09 Aug 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: August 9

    for Auditor Independence Yet? Authors:M.H. Bazerman and D.A. Moore Publication:Accounting, Organizations and Society (in press) Abstract Well before the collapse of Enron and Arthur Andersen, we argued that the auditing system had been... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 31 Jul 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity

    Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile
    • 09 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing

    Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “They have a tendency to reproduce one another's work, and so they get the feeling that they're making progress. But in reality, there's not enough independence in the... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • November 2006 (Revised March 2012)
    • Case

    Clocky: The Runaway Alarm Clock

    By: Elie Ofek and Eliot Sherman
    Gauri Nanda is the creator of an innovative new product: an alarm clock named Clocky that, in addition to ringing, rolls around the room in order to force its owner to get out of bed. Beset by media attention and consumer interest but still at least a year away from... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Product Positioning; Partners and Partnerships; Production; Marketing Strategy; Media; Entrepreneurship; Independent Innovation and Invention; Product Launch
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    • 12 Feb 2013
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    First Look: Feb. 12

      PublicationsOne-Switch Conditions for Multiattribute Utility Functions Authors:Abbas, Ali E., and David E. Bell Publication:Operations Research Abstract We introduce a variety of new independence conditions for multiattribute utility... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2013
    • Book

    Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making of the modern world. In recent years economists, historians, and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty,... View Details
    Keywords: FDI; Economic History; Business History; Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mines; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America
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    • 28 Nov 2018
    • Blog Post

    Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

    at night, I was so happy doing what I loved. I was also conscious of the fact that my primary responsibility was to my company. I worked to ensure that I was productive and meeting deadlines, and I appreciated the support I received from... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
    • 28 May 2013
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    First Look: May 28

    Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44226 Independent Directors' Dissent on Boards: Evidence from Listed Companies in China By: Ma, Juan, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—In this paper, we examine the circumstances under... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 19 Jan 2011
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    First Look: Jan. 18

    http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9390.html Why You Aren't Buying Venezuelan Chocolate Author:Rohit Deshpandé Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010) Abstract The article discusses the "provenance paradox," wherein consumers are... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 23 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

    by management layers, making independent decisions about everything from where to buy bandages to how to discipline a nurse who slacks off. “Working in an organization that trusts you and cares for you makes things possible you had not... View Details
    Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health
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    Podcast - Business & Environment

    Rising In the latest episode of Climate Rising from Harvard Business School, Karen Pflug, Chief Sustainability Officer of Ingka Group (IKEA), shares how IKEA is embedding circularity throughout its business model. She discusses how IKEA is redesigning iconic View Details
    • 08 May 2012
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    First Look: May 8

    supported this prediction. Auxiliary analyses suggest that contrast effects and non-random scheduling of interviews are unlikely alternative explanations. Six Myths of Product Development Authors:Stefan Thomke and Donald Reinertsen... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel