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- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
Boston has always been fueled by an Enlightenment belief in scientific progress and human perfectibility. It is home to America's first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and college, Harvard College (1636). After the American...
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by Spencer E. Ante
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
Working Papers Reality versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about Privatization Authors: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky Abstract Argentina privatized most public...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
high-definition (HD) technology created a need for a format with greater storage capacity. Instead of agreeing on a single standard for a new HD disc, however, key players had formed two rival camps. The Blu-ray and HD-DVD View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
individuals willingly succumbing to "group think," waving through a lukewarm idea rather than disrupting the comfort of the status quo. "Questioning long-held beliefs and traditional ways of doing things is a painful but...
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by Laurie Joan Aron
- Profile
Prita Kumar
customer value. The dual tracks of business and fitness became deeply ingrained in Kumar’s psyche, along with a belief that she would someday start her own company. Kumar got her undergraduate degree in business at NYU’s Stern School and...
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- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
distance themselves from seekers who they learn consulted others, an effect mediated by perceptions that their own advice will be disregarded. Underlying these effects is an asymmetry between advisors’ and seekers’ beliefs about the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
commented, "The cost of creation is increasing in every creative area ." Len Bullard wrote, "As Yeom Tae Seon points out, scarcity based on digital format is only one domain. The other is scarcity of ideas and talent."...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
its ties to the Soviet Union. Later that summer, a government plan to again dramatically increase the price of food and other basic commodities sparked large, violent protests in Warsaw and its suburbs. The unrest led to the formation of...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
energies to worthwhile causes beyond our jobs and our families. That is what's driving a lot of us to branch out into social and community activities beyond our business life. Jerry Ostrov: My impression is that there is a widely shared View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
of their goals, write the authors, is to correct the mistaken belief among some entrepreneurs, corporations, and academic institutions that "venture capitalists can add little value to young firms aside from money." After a historical...
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Amy E. Dean
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
viewership numbers. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808121 MP3 Portable Audio Player Market Harvard Business School Case 608-119 The emergence of the MP3 file-based music format not only...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Out at Business School
adamant about making an active effort to come out to my parents, I attribute much of my courage to the formation of self-acceptance. I view my self-acceptance as the deep and fundamental belief that my...
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- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
different economic systems. In particular, two equilibria might arise: one with low taxes and a belief that the income-generating process is "fair" because effort is important (an "American" equilibrium) and another...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in subsidiaries in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, France, India, and the United States. Investment versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about the Argentine Water...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
revenues over time. Perhaps this sounds intuitive, but it doesn't necessarily correspond with the popular belief that one or two popular songs can "make" an album. My findings suggest that as music consumption moves online,...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
state-of-the-art graphics, to target the right audience, and to measure responses instantly. But many experts contend that Internet advertising is still in its infancy. There is a widely held belief that in the future we will compare...
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Susan Young
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
strategy serves to reduce entry by affecting the entrant's beliefs about the market potential of the innovation. Finally, we extend the model to investigate the entrant's decision to communicate its innovation intentions. We find that the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
major securities laws and the formation of the SEC. We were in the same sort of turbulent period but with one major difference. In 1929, not that many people were invested in the stock market. This time around, well over half of the...
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Jason A. Kilar
employees, Bezos was unknown and unheralded. When he got up to close the case and give his point of view, he laughed out loud and told the class that he completely understood their belief that he would fail. But he was clearly undaunted...
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- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
final package of specific recommendations. In March, they turned it over on schedule to the new government. Just a month or two later, Aung San Suu Kyi's new government announced the formation of a new presidential council with equal...
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