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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
frontier innovators share? Lack of resources. Lazarow: There's a lot less capital, there's a lot less depth of trained startup human capital, the been-there-done-that crowd that have already scaled with businesses. There's less corporate...
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- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
celebrity wine connoisseur, the team faces a significant challenge: several other wine social networks are well established and already have large user bases. How can Cork'd gain traction in this crowded space? Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
so-called "enrollment crisis" in IS education, especially with the generation of "digital natives" who have come of age in an environment crowded with engaging approaches to communication and entertainment that compete...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
presence of agency conflicts. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50792 Harvard Business School Case 317-007 Fitbit In 2016, Fitbit remained the world’s leading producer of activity trackers—an increasingly View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
financial incentives do not appear to crowd it out. Third, the responses to both types of incentives are stronger when their relative value is higher. Indeed, financial rewards are effective at motivating the poorest agents, and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
from the crowd of more experienced users and are therefore able to better capture value from using the goods. Data on firm contributions to open source software (OSS), an important crowdsourced public good, is used to test the theoretical...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
fall short, too. India’s struggle with poverty comes into clear view on the taxi ride downtown: Crowded slums with makeshift housing hug the roadway, and entire families settle down for the night on the city’s sidewalks. Also visible are...
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Julia Hanna
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
need in high-stakes situations. I think the incoming president has been very successful in terms of how he’s managed the American media to his ends. I can count on two hands the number of leaders I have seen in my lifetime who could walk into a room, take the measure...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
non-financial rewards leverage intrinsic motivation and, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not appear to crowd it out. Third, the responses to both types of incentives are stronger when their relative value...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
she is quite petite, just over five feet tall, a figure all the more surprising given the force of her presence. It may help explain why, when crowding into the back of a taxi, Oishi insists on occupying the uncomfortable middle seat,...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Elvis. The lead singer, dressed in a white, sequined jump suit with flaring bell-bottoms, leaps about the stage one moment and hurls himself onto the outstretched arms of the frenetic crowd the next as he belts out song after song during...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
crowd that the agreement was “proof of the strength of what we could do if we decide to find common purpose.” The head of a regional lumber coalition touted the achievement, crediting his fellow speakers. A representative from the...
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Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, which was devastated by Hurricane Eta in November 2020. With widespread damage to their homes and crops, communities were forced to shelter in crowded camps, in spite of the increased risk of COVID-19...
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- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
infringement and support small inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out firms that, absent NPEs, would produce...
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
and Contests to Innovate with Crowds By: Lakhani, Karim R. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50423 January–February 2016 Harvard Business Review Algorithms Need Managers, Too...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
wanted to put that behind me and move forward." In contrast, Steve Belkin, who entered HBS right after graduation from Cornell and was one of the youngest members of the class, was in Harvard Square when the police started shooting tear gas into the View Details
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
got a high-tech upgrade. On a warm July day at a little past 11 a.m., as the early lunch crowd shuffles in, Karavites runs through the changes: digital menu boards, a mobile ordering system, a new delivery collaboration with UberEATS, and...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
we could tap the wisdom of the crowd to help design them? When you start thinking about making cars this way, at some point you’ve ceased thinking about cars and started thinking about a modern alternative to mass production. People will...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
visitors and that locals weren’t crowded out. Could the two parties now find dry land? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817013-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-014 Airbnb in Amsterdam (B) In December...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
Paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Coming%20Through%20in%20a%20Crisis_1ffcaae3-d616-47f1-875b-de4b09d97b65.pdf When the Crowd Fights Corruption Authors:Healy, Paul M., and Karthik Ramanna Publication:Harvard Business...
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Sean Silverthorne