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- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
evolution of "action pricing"—setting an audacious price goal and endeavoring to meet it. The laptop typifies technological breakthroughs that influence the mainstream in ways that could have large potential impact. The View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
activities of those more senior. This is a sharp contrast, in fact a near inversion, in terms of who works for whom when compared with the more traditional, centralized command and control system characterized by a downward diffusion of... View Details
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
small number of large major accounts, some mid-sized ones (the previous focus of the field sales force), and often a bunch of little ones. And, accounts are complex collections of diffuse buying teams involving different customer... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 02 Aug 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Will Millennials Manage?
and no action." In Diomande Yantoulaye's opinion, "As managers, millennials strongly diffuse responsibility/accountability at individual levels in their organizations their willingness to continuously acquire knowledge makes... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
variables, we find that government procurement rules produce spillover effects that stimulate both private-sector adoption of the LEED standard and investments in green building expertise by local suppliers. These findings suggest that government procurement policies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
puzzles including, most significantly, evidence of strong employment growth following adoption of dismissal protections. In light of these puzzles, we read our findings as suggestive but tentative. Ethnic Scientific Communities and International View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-033_d218ec59-b694-4f4f-ba4e-0e64b54e4c34.pdf Financial Development and Technology Diffusion By: Comin, Diego, and Ramana Nanda... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/11/social-strategies-that-work/ar/1 Working PapersCarbon Tariffs: Impacts on Technology Choice, Regional Competitiveness, and Global Emissions Authors:David F. Drake Abstract Carbon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
the making of the global world over the last two centuries. Individual entrepreneurs and managers invented new products and shaped consumer demand. Firms created and diffused technologies and products,... View Details
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
the efforts on the part of its management to help institutionalize good corporate governance in India. Indeed, diffusion of corporate governance practices in India is rendered partly feasible by a coalition between firms and regulators... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
Publications 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts By: Eisenmann, Tom, ed. Abstract—Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best posts from many blogs on technology startup... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
the firm than in its absence. An Exploration of Technology Diffusion Author:Diego A. Comin Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract We develop a model that, at the aggregate level, is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
country-level factors that, by intensifying scrutiny on firms and diffusing global norms to their headquarters countries, limit firms' use of selective disclosure. We test our hypotheses using a novel panel dataset of 4,750 public... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
thought that their technical knowledge of best manufacturing practices (to take one example) was sufficiently developed that processes simply needed to be tweaked to fit local conditions. More often, it turns out, they have to be reworked quite radically-not because... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
unavailable at this time. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43686 The Spatial Diffusion of Technology Authors:Comin, Diego A., Mikhail Dmitriev, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
online will likely worry about receiving gifts on time. Training staff to enforce rapidly changing health guidelines and diffuse tension with customers who don’t comply mask-wearing regulations will also be critical to keeping the peace... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
absorptive capacity has been to locate new R&D facilities in close geographic proximity to technology "hotspots" like Cambridge, Massachusetts, or the San Francisco Bay Area. Such a strategy is predicated on the assumption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
capital-good market externality and technology diffusion play a more important role in the offshore agglomeration of multinationals than the agglomeration of domestic firms. These findings remain robust when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
pursue her passion in technology and risk not seeing her family for a long time; or visit her family in Canada or the U.K., and risk losing her livelihood. The question she posed: Would I be willing to sign the ‘no-to-immigration-ban’... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
Measurement, Causes, and Consequences By: Comin, Diego A., and Marti Mestieri Abstract—This chapter discusses different approaches pursued to explore three broad questions related to technology diffusion: what general patterns... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino