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  • 20 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Illuminating India’s Solar Future: Reflections on Tata Solar Manufacturing Plant Visit

This rate, while manageable, could benefit from stricter cleanroom practices and further automation to reduce rework costs and enhance overall efficiency. A broader concern is the lack of intellectual property or unique product... View Details
  • 29 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

  Working PapersNone this week   Cases & Course MaterialsAvaya (A) Harvard Business School Case 508-048 Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the relationship between Sales and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

productivity effects of organizational practices remains a challenge for future research. Does Intellectual Property Rights Reform Spur Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, Ray Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

politicians only provide the services people vote for within the civil and property rights protections set forth in the constitution. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

demands of city officials, cable operators encountered higher than expected construction costs as they entered urban markets. It proved difficult to lay cable under busy city streets while avoiding disruption to existing power, phone,... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Drilling Down

competitors. An exploration and production company founded in 1967, CMS employs 180 workers in the United States, South America, and Africa. "Some of these mergers facilitate the purchase of properties that are no longer strategic to the... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

investments in customized test software developed for UNIX systems. Teradyne's top customers were not interested in sacrificing accuracy and scrapping already installed software for the cost benefits of CMOS chips and NT. Instead, they had an extensive list of View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology
  • 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16

delegator's (e.g., a citizenry) demand to hold a delegate (e.g., shareholders) to account. When effective, corporate accountability reporting can internalize certain externalities into firms' resource-allocation decisions, although doing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2015
  • News

Room to Grow

high-impact programs that take aim at statewide food policies, large-scale food operations, and regional food infrastructures to spark the innovations that will move them closer to that goal. “With the increasing awareness and demand for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Is AI OK?

For one thing, Black hosts were underrepresented in the data that was used to train the algorithm. What’s more, says Zhang, societal bias may result in different demand curves for Black-owned properties... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

property (IP) protection to safeguard their competitive advantages. However, the majority of recent patent litigation is driven by nonpracticing entities (NPEs), firms that generate no products but instead amass patent portfolios for the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

Information or Wing It? A Model of Dynamic Pricing with Seller Learning By: Huang, Guofang, Hong Luo, and Jing Xia Abstract—Pricing idiosyncratic products is often challenging because the seller, ex ante, lacks information about the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

employee confusion about or neglect of the tax properties of Roth balances and (2) partition dependence. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20738 The Rise and Fall of Demand for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2004
  • Background Note

56K Modem Battle

By: David B. Yoffie and Deborah Freier
Examines the battle to set the standard for the 56K modem. Set in 1996, this case looks at how computers accessed the Internet via a telephone line, or dial-up connection, and a hardware modem. In 1995, there were 18.6 million total modem unit shipments, with market... View Details
Keywords: Announcements; Revenue; Patents; Product Launch; Network Effects; Standards; Competition; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Industry; Illinois
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  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

and services they consume. In many cases, collaborative user innovators are vying with producers for intellectual property rights and the control of standards and innovation trajectories. In light of these developments, it is time to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

optimization problems. We argue that the classical RO paradigm need not produce solutions that possess the associated property of Pareto optimality and illustrate via examples how this could lead to inefficiencies and sub-optimal... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 05 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 5, 2006

overweighting of minor (but easy to evaluate) attributes that would be overlooked under an all-inclusive price format. The effect of price partitioning on demand can be detrimental or beneficial, consistent with existing conflicting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

A Binary Formula

buildings, this emphasis on science will affect HBS. The unique challenges of managing and leading science-based businesses — certain to be a driver of this century’s new economy — demand new management paradigms. For a core group of HBS... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 20 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

expensive precisely because of the country's prosperity. With the wages and purchasing power of working people largely stagnant over the last two decades, the cost of adequate housing in a decent neighborhood has soared beyond the reach of many. Today, the View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate
  • 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

favorite content wherever they are whenever they demand it, consumption patterns will become more, not less uniform, this theory predicts. To shed light on this debate, we study the distribution of revenues across products in the context... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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