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- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
occupations, the creative act has received limited attention as an economic behavior and has historically proven difficult to study. This paper studies the incentive effects of competition on individuals' creative production. Using a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
this month's column. Bruce Bockmann stated the case for the "flat-worlders" in reminding us that "it is the responsibility of government to support technology in its own country. If government does that, the capital and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
attributes such shortcomings to a prevailing "sense of entitlement" that's fostered in part by the absence of competitors. "You could make a good case that the very promise of job security is the first step in destroying... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
users out of luck. Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner and his colleagues are studying how SSOs balance the interests of users against the interest of sponsors to gain widespread acceptance of new technologies. Their paper,... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
both raise and burn cash. Its only asset was Mr. Ma, its charismatic and dynamic founder. After we wrote our first case study about the company in 2000, we were afraid it would go bankrupt before we could... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
lead to dysfunctional group dynamics) and the perspectives brought to the table by board leaders and director. Finally, the benefits of two opposing leadership structures are debated: one chapter argues for electing a chairman who is separate from the CEO, while... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
Michael Luca and Weijia (Daisy) Dai, an assistant professor of economics at Lehigh University, recently studied effectiveness of paid search ads for small businesses by designing a large-scale field experiment that involved nearly 20,000... View Details
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
effects of competition have an advantage within their markets, says Alexander J. MacKay, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, who coauthored the study Consumer Inertia and Market Power with Marc... View Details
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
all from the unanticipated increase in spending," Coval reports. Over a 40-year period, the study looked at increases in local earmarks and other federal spending that flowed to states after the senator or representative rose to the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
suggests that it could grow even more quickly—that it could join the small number of nations achieving annual double-digit increases in real GDP. Liberia, Werker says, "could be the perfect storm for very fast growth." The other question his View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
are paving their own way," Kraus says. "But even if you're not an entrepreneur, you can still harness that ability to pave your own way by creating a plan and reassessing when bad luck shows up." Finding Your 'flow' Students learn about reinventing themselves from... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
"The Changing Structure of the Global Wine Industry," won the Best Paper award at the 2003 European Applied Business Research Conference. Roberto recently shared his thoughts on wine for HBS Working Knowledge in an e-mail Q&A. Manda Salls: Why did you... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
To illustrate the old adage that birds of a feather flock together, there may be no better example than the venture capital industry. A recent study finds that venture capitalists have a strong tendency to team up with other VCs whose... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
observing teams for the case studies I used a fly-on-the-wall method: I tried to blend into the background so the teams would behave as naturally as possible. Based on their discussions and actions, they... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
Andreas Haas How Does an Organization Like Boeing Coordinate Work Under Intense Competitive Pressure? Our case study on Boeing this month unfolded in real time, leading up to a second critical glitch on one... View Details
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
according to a recent study by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Albert W. Sheen. In The Real Product Impact of Mergers, Sheen finds that mergers generally have little effect on product quality over time, even while product... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
sounding-board for their ideas. "With the case study method, the delivery is in the classroom," says Mayo. "With FIELD, 80 percent of the success is in the design of the individual sessions... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Massachusetts, there has been considerable controversy regarding the building of wind turbines on Cape Cod—a situation I describe in a case study I've written. But no matter what happens there, only about... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
should, nor do we have many cases about business leaders operating in that high-conflict, low-authority domain." Giving students a broader perspective outside the HBS classroom is another possibility, such as pairing B-school students... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
The News Corporation/News of the World scandal has been described as a case study in bad management. What was there about the company's organizational culture that led to "Murdoch's Mess"?... View Details