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24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

selected through exit early in their careers, made time allocation decisions such as delayed marriage, and tended to migrate to places that were conducive to innovation. Father's income was positively correlated with becoming an inventor,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Search Funds

How can I create a list of companies for a search fund? Using library databases it is possible to create a list of privately owned companies within a certain geography and industry. For a search fund,... View Details

14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

source software ("OSS"). What drives companies with large, proprietary software portfolios to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in OSS? We approach this question by grouping a sample of OSS projects into clusters and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Nov 2007
Op-Ed

How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple

would be delayed. Apple's stock, although it rebounded after a strong earnings report, dropped six percent when the company announced a $200 price cut on the iPhone only 8 weeks after the product launched. CEOs, often dismissive of... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Aerospace; Consumer Products

11 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

comes with costs Recognizing someone else’s emotions, especially negative ones, can come at a cost, the research team says. The person doing the acknowledging is willing to spend time talking through feelings of anger, sadness, or... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

01 Jan 2013
News

Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960

Ocean Hall opens at National Museum of Natural History As a Mormon missionary in Wisconsin, Roger Sant enjoyed working with Native Americans. Innately curious, he liked spending time with the people, getting to know them, and helping them... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

26 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress

deathsannually, according to recent research. ©iStock.com/Africaimages But those programs can only work if companies aren't at the same time undermining them with stress-inducing management practices.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

04 Jun 2020
Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

for teams to thrive, even in the leader’s absence. Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School, served as senior vice president for leadership and strategy at Uber and has consulted with WeWork and other View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

25 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

taxes on individual inventors and firms (the micro level) and on states over time (the macro level). We propose several identification strategies, all of which yield consistent results: i) OLS with fixed effects, including inventor and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Mar 2009
What Do You Think?

How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?

all organizations in all cultures, in times of success as opposed to decline, when talking about the past as opposed to the future, or in dealing with employees of all generations. As many respondents to this month's column pointed out,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

07 Jul 2011
What Do You Think?

So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

Summing Up Adaptability and commitment are complementary concepts, appropriate in different situations, over different time periods, and in response to different challenges. That's the general sense that one gets in reading over the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 Jan 2024
News

Great Heights

challenge that experienced mountaineers say is greater even than Mount Everest. “It was the biggest, most vast, most intimidating mountain I had ever beheld in my life,” Kostova says, recalling the first time she set eyes on Denali. “I... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

01 Sep 2023
News

Elevator Pitch: Standard of Care

March 2023, Teodorescu traveled to Ukraine to deliver 50 additional SurgiBox units at the military’s request. A portable operating room that fits into a backpack and runs on a rechargeable battery, SurgiBox is a timely innovation for a... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; healthcare; surgery; Ukraine; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007

research and discuss his contributions to management and economics. We look at three distinct bodies of work. In the first, Clark (in conjunction with Robert Hayes and Steven Wheelwright) argued that the abandonment by U.S. managers of manufacturing as a strategic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Research Summary

Wearing a Red Hat ¨C The Impact of Activist Industrial Policy on Software Development in China

The idea that the government should steer economic development by strategically hand-picking and managing certain industries is controversial but appeals to many developing countries that are eager to upgrade their industries. In this paper, I study China's recent... View Details

08 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?

components of traditional newspaper companies—print subscription, print advertising, digital subscription, and digital advertising—finds that for companies with high circulations and large amounts of exclusive content, paywalls can... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

20 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

If the past two decades have demonstrated technology’s potential, one of the challenges of the next ten years will be defining its boundaries. How can new technologies benefit people and societies in equitable ways? How can companies --... View Details

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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

became a partner in 1850. Albert Heard came to China after graduating from Yale and became a partner in 1856, the same time that Augustine II went home and John returned to China to take his place. By 1857, John Heard reported that the... View Details

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

Publications August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The Art of Strategic Renewal By: Binns, Andy, J. Bruce Harreld, Charles A. O'Reilly, and Michael L. Tushman Abstract—In recent years, we have seen well-established companies such as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

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About - Business History

today. Impact Stories Uncovering the roots of innovation Re: Maki Umemura [M]y time at Harvard ... immersed me in a vibrant, interdisciplinary, and intellectually stimulating community. Academic Excellence Re: Pierre-Yves Donzé I was... View Details

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