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- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
integrated back in. "But to try to take your core business, if your market's going through a fundamental shift, and migrate it on the fly without separating it out is a very big challenge." Incentive structure is a big issue for... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
the firm's business practices. We have built a simple classification system that when combined with an "assessment" model could yield powerful diagnostics on how to migrate and manage a company's portfolio of CSR programs.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55160 From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration By: Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini Abstract— How does the appearance of a new... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
technology development and entrepreneurship, leading to less initial migration to the United States and greater return migration. More mechanical explanations may also exist—for example, stronger relative growth of innovation in... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
2015 and 2016 data for about 2,000 refugees between the ages of 18 and 64 at about 30 locations to see if they are employed after 90 days. In Switzerland, the research examines about 4,500 adult asylum seekers in 2015 and 2016 who are assigned by the Swiss State... View Details
- 18 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Marketing After the Recession
product in the next period. Use common sense. If the Wal-Mart parking lot looks less crowded, some consumers are probably migrating back to Target and vice versa. Develop scenarios. How long the current recession will last is widely... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
The trend is independent from the Rust Belt overseas job migration that occurred in the same timeframe, the researchers note. “We've always known bigger cities have more patents, even on a per capita basis, than smaller cities,” Kerr... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
teraflop of processing power, and today's high-end, high-speed chips will migrate down into a wide swath of consumer devices. Another key driver is the arrival of broadband technology on a global scale, which allows bandwidth-intensive... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
months. Marketing for the program was also eliminated. While all banks sell bonds, the $.50 to $.85 they earn for each transaction gives them little financial incentive to make the process easy for consumers. Finally, the Treasury's preference to View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
shareholders," says Quelch. "Meaning they'll be able to manipulate prices in order to control the speed with which tobacco users migrate to e-cigarette brands." That means that electronic cigarettes, which are now... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
area’s peace, stability, and national security. And the situation is getting progressively worse, partly due to people migrating out of suddenly unlivable situations. “Governments and development finance institutions clearly don’t have... View Details
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
environment. This includes helping native English speakers learn how to temper their pace and vocabulary so that they are more inclusive while others migrate to their native language. Today, all global companies need to address the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
cities between 1910 and 1930. Instrumenting immigrants’ location decision by interacting national changes in migration flows across ethnic groups with pre-existing immigrants’ enclaves across U.S. cities, we find that immigration raised... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1475725 Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation Author:William R. Kerr Abstract We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
uncover in the data. We show that inventors were highly educated and that father’s income and education were important intergenerational transmission channels. Inventors tended to migrate to places that were conducive to innovation, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
commonality in the bioprocessing aspects of both approaches, the regulatory approvals, product development paths, and market-access timelines were dramatically different--almost diametrically opposed. Analyzes Biocon's strategic decisions, as well as the risks and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
households cope? After a conflict ends, how long does it take for households to recover? How do mechanisms like occupational change or migration contribute to recovery from crisis? Quy-Toan Do and I are planning to study this question, in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
The twenty-first century will be the age of alliances. In this age, collaboration between nonprofit organizations and corporations will grow in frequency and strategic importance. Collaborative relationships will increasingly migrate from... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 28 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
It’s India Above China in New World Order
also concerned about instability caused by migration to cities and the large (though decreasing) role of bankrupt, state-owned enterprises that continue to play a Social Security-like role in China. But the biggest source of worry is the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
and will take years. The authors describe the path that blockchain is likely to follow and explain how firms should think about investments in it. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52100 forthcoming Annual Review of Economics High-Skilled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne