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- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
the expanding practice of leveraging crowds for innovation and how crowdsourcing models have played out in different business environments. Lakhani notes, for example, that digital innovation has changed the models and mechanisms around...
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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
1930s, where it was noticed that direct labor costs tended to decrease by a constant percentage as the cumulative quantity of aircraft produced doubled. Learning effects figured prominently in wartime production planning efforts. World...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
distribution services (GDSs)—such as SABRE—to reach travel agents. But GDSs held significant tactical advantages. For example, GDSs had signed long-term exclusive contracts with the corporate customers who were American's best customers. Furthermore, travel agents...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
well) to the thoughtful adoption of social media technology. And they offer guidance on how to balance the benefits of open-ended talk with the realities of strategic execution. Drawing on the experience of leaders at diverse companies...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
the state. "This is not to say that the services provided by MNCs are not beneficial, but they are not the foundation for sustainable development if what remains behind is inefficient, and possibly corrupt, government." Abrami's research focuses on...
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by Julia Hanna
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
the effect of a single drug on multiple adverse events by analyzing data that accumulate sequentially and explicitly captures interdependencies among the multiple events. The method continuously monitors a vector-valued test-statistic derived from the View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Aug 2022
- News
HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of Japan held a virtual gathering on June 25 to showcase its HBS Japan Fellowship—a fund that helps students from Japan “realize their dream” of attending Harvard Business School. Moderated by Ryo Takahashi (MBA 2020), 35 alumni...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
online discount vouchers, a new marketing tool that offers consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating merchants' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
virtuous cycles of exploitation and exploration by deliberately perturbing their own processes. We provide illustrations from Toyota and formulate testable hypotheses about the mechanisms of perturbation. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
once was considered thinking and will increasingly do so." Bill Barker agreed, in the process offering his solution: In the past, he wrote, the portion of the working population employed in agriculture dropped from 50 percent to less...
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by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
made on the right side or the left side of the brain. But this will never lead to deciding by a mechanical means, nor in predicting a decision outcome." There was even concern expressed about the efficacy of MRI-based research on...
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by Jim Heskett
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
Unconventional techniques Fresh thinking requires fresh methodologies, and a session was devoted to unconventional research techniques. One speaker explored thousands of contracts in early modern China to show how tree plantation was managed through market View Details
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
(Photo source: Catherine Lane) Giving to charity is the ultimate act of selflessness. We offer our own hard-earned money to those in need, with no thought of return. The reality of altruism, however, is much more complicated, as Harvard...
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by Michael Blanding
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
addition, a growing literature has begun to highlight the potential importance of overconfidence in driving entrepreneurial outcomes. Such a mechanism may appear at face value to work like a lower level of risk aversion, but there are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
intermediary to charge consumers fixed fees, to offer them screening contracts, and to subsidize search allowing stores' strategic decisions to be contractible or controlled by the intermediary. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
and present themselves as more virtuous and ethical (Studies 1, 2, 3). We show this mechanism is exclusive for ethical dissonance and is not triggered by salience of ethicality (Study 4), general sense of personal failure, or ethically...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
oversees a transparent award. Fourth, projects can be planned and sequenced to optimize cumulative benefit. While it’s tempting to spread infrastructure spending around for political reasons, that can lead to disconnected and unrelated...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
was on the Al Faw Peninsula in Iraq, in the office of General Joseph Medina to talk about his future. In addition to leading a multinational unit on everything from reconnaissance to route security, Rogers was serving as a general’s aide, View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
With its abundance of complex management issues in a rapidly changing environment, Latin America offers a rich landscape for in-depth academic investigation. Some of the research work currently underway by HBS faculty is already earmarked...
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by Martha Lagace