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- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
people's plans? Second, will consumers tolerate fees for what they've formerly received for free? And finally, has competitive advantage returned to bricks-and-mortar operations? CNET's Bonnie was bullish on the View Details
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by Jim Aisner
- 28 Jan 2022
- News
Helping Trapped Low-Wage Workers, Employers Struggling to Fill Spots
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
correlated with different pathways to success,” says Fuller, who is also the co-director of HBS’ Managing the Future of Work project. Apprenticeships are rare outside the building trades in the US. Concerns abound that they pigeonhole...
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by Michael Blanding
- 2020
- Working Paper
Automation and the Plight of Young Workers: Evidence from the Automation of Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century
By: Daniel P. Gross and James J. Feigenbaum
Telephone operation was one of the most common jobs for young American women in the early 1900s. Between 1920 and 1940, AT&T adopted dial service in over half of U.S. telephone exchanges, automating away a legion of operators. We show that upon a city's adoption of...
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Employment;
Labor;
Gender;
Technology Adoption;
History;
Telecommunications Industry;
United States
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Over 50 and Job Hunting?
Age discrimination is a serious concern among executives who contemplate career moves after age 50. In one recent survey, nearly three out of four managers with an average age of 50 said they believed age would be a barrier in their View Details
- 2007
- Working Paper
Dynamics of Platform Competition: Exploring the Role of Installed Base, Platform Quality and Consumer Expectations
By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti
This paper seeks to answer three questions. First, which drives the success of a platform, installed base, platform quality or consumer expectations? Second, when does a monopoly emerge in a platform-based market? Finally, when is a platform-based market socially...
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Price;
Network Effects;
Digital Platforms;
Monopoly;
Quality;
Competitive Advantage;
Digital Platforms
Zhu, Feng, and Marco Iansiti. "Dynamics of Platform Competition: Exploring the Role of Installed Base, Platform Quality and Consumer Expectations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-031, November 2007.
- 17 Apr 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty books pages
2023: March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books A More Just Future 2022: December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts Ink: Comfort in Discomfort September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books Ink: The Three-Step Startup June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books Ink: Start Small,...
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- 08 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Meet The Aerospace and Aviation Club
inquiries: Justin Oliveira (joliveira@mba2017.hbs.edu). On February 11th, 2017, the Aerospace and Aviation Club, in collaboration with the Transportation, Infrastructure, and Logistics Club, will host the...
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Manufacturing
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
Associate at Shell. Ignacio Fernandez Herzog (MBA 2022, Section C), Summer Internship: Business Strategy MBA Intern at Solugen Solugen wants to build a sustainable future with synthetic biology. Its vision is to decarbonize the products...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
- 17 Dec 2014
- News
Facilitating an understanding of business and society in Turkey and the surrounding region
Turkey, government officials, and prominent business leaders, laying the foundation for future research. Çekin also develops connections between companies in Turkey and HBS’s...
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Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying wages in company store scrip and mandated monthly wage payments. The court held that the legislature could not prescribe mandatory wage contracts for legally competent...
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Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 12, no. 3 (July 2013): 285–319.
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
potential investors. To the extent that founders tend to be very confident in their startup's prospects, they may even be more inclined to take money from friends and family, happily imagining those close to them sharing in the startup's...
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by Noam Wasserman
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Understanding the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard
which senior executives identify as one of their top priorities, along with climate change and diversity, equity, and inclusion. REINVENTING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS READ MORE...
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- 2019
- Chapter
Resource Allocation Theory
By: Joseph L. Bower
This article considers the process of resource allocation, whereby an organization determines how best to apportion its factors of production between the various productive activities in which it wishes to engage. It is suggested that none of the academic approaches to...
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Resource Allocation
Bower, Joseph L. "Resource Allocation Theory." In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Continuously updated edition, edited by Mie Augier and David J. Teece. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Electronic. (Pre-published, July 2016.)
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Faculty - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Carter, 2003) and editor of The Future of Boards (2013). He formerly served on the boards of Benckiser (now Reckitt Benckiser), Blasland Bouck & Lee Inc., Brunswick Corporation, Sandy Corporation View Details
- December 2001
- Case
Natural Pork Production
By: Ray A. Goldberg and James M Beagle
An entrepreneurial hog farmer's creative use of contracts and capital structure drives very successful growth and returns in a depressed commodity industry.
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- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies: 1) executive orientation and experience, 2) top management teams, 3) board-management relations, and 4) executive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency
- TeachingInterests
Managing Human Capital
The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal... View Details