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- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
airports come at a premium, however; securing space depended on financing, a credible design for Polished's stores, and leasing managers' belief in Rhyne's ability to hire people and satisfy customers—neither of which was possible, of...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
credit and leverage, and expose the economy to major risks. Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer carefully walk readers through the unraveling of Lehman Brothers and the ensuing meltdown of the U.S. financial system and then present new...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
and that challenges mounted against a single firm (and industry) can inspire field-level (and state-level) changes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0809.html#wp09-019 Liquidity Needs in View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
considered leaving his general partnership in a private equity firm near Boston and setting up his own in 2015. He weighed whether the timing was right, with the economy still not fully recovered from the Great Recession of 2007–2009....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
http://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Innovation-Economics-Creative-Organizations/dp/1422143635/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1351005820&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Architecture+of+Innovation The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
economy section. Intoxication was listed as the most common incident type at 31.75 percent, belligerent behavior came next at 29 percent, and noncompliance with crew instructions ranked third at 18.67 percent. First-class incidents were...
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- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
recently wrote a book about it: Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity, to be published April 21. Although facilities managers might think they’re saving a few dollars on electricity and air filters,...
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- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
benefits; and theoretical work to guide the analyses. The paper summarizes likely motives for foreign direct investment and potential effects of FDI on local economies as well as recent findings from the macro literature on the role of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
of our interview with authors Rajiv Lal and José B. Alvarez, they discuss what the future of storefront retailing looks like and how its transformation will also change the economy and society. Sean Silverthorne: What is happening to the...
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- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
Farronato, a Harvard Business School assistant professor, and Andrey Fradkin, postdoctoral fellow at the Initiative on the Digital Economy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "You might find a Fifth Avenue apartment or a...
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- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
great online giants. “Alibaba's only limits are those imposed by the speed at which these enterprises continue to grow” Still largely unknown in the West, Alibaba dominates China's Internet and logistics space with over 600 million...
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- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
their friends. Then they make a few more for friends of their friends, and charge for them. Thus user-manufacturers are born. Because of their low-scale production methods and connections in the community, they have a competitive advantage when the design View Details
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
these people will end up not owning a lot of the economy because of historical conditions. So there is an equity issue." The Right Mix "I think most governments try too hard [to do everything]," said panelist Udayan Wagle,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
Facebook. Enron's Lessons for Managers Published: July 12, 2004 Like the Challenger space shuttle disaster was a learning experience for engineers, so too is the Enron crash for managers, says Harvard Business School professor Malcolm S....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
selling advertising space on the back of the envelopes. It's one example of how Chinese companies are looking at their own environment and finding interesting opportunities that someone in the United States wouldn't even consider."...
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by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
wrought with misinformation. The leader in this space was the website Craigslist, which was the most highly trafficked classifieds site in the world and the tenth most visited site in the United States despite introducing almost no...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
the twentieth century, companies relied on a "full-service" agency for most or all of their advertising service needs, including both creative development and media planning and buying. Agencies were compensated primarily by commissions related to the volume of media...
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- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating,” says Sawyer, an assistant professor in the Business, Government and the International Economy unit who previously held the...
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- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
countries generally lack a solid technology base of trained scientists and world-class research universities. 2. Companies in developing countries must manage to eke out a profit while serving customers with low disposable income; per capita gross domestic product in...
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- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
forthcoming Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our...
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Dina Gerdeman