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- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
we do work?" Even with Salesforce’s extra muscle, Slack’s executives have puzzled over how to compete with a free rival, a new Harvard Business School case study illustrates. Now, a David-and-Goliath contest is underway, and the outcome...
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- 19 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control
strategies that brand managers have used in order to cope with it. Avery recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss their findings. According to the paper, consumers are operating in four concurrent Web-based eras: The Age of...
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- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
infrastructure for transactional activity, new scholarship asks what forces shape modern patterns of economic activity and how those patterns sort people and resources. Instead of reproducing conventional dichotomies, current historians of American capitalism View Details
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Manufacturing
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
restaurants were created equal. Chain restaurants, in particular, were largely unaffected by the ratings, while the greatest effect was shown for independent restaurants. That makes sense according to economic theory, says Luca, since diners presumably already have...
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- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
two locations shared knowledge of palm oil production even as they competed for market share—a contest that Malaysia eventually won thanks to its more stable political climate and higher quality of...
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- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
Partners, RelayRides, and Birchbox, among others—the Business Plan Contest has grown and evolved from its first iteration in 1997. Back then, 37 teams submitted plans. Last year, a record-breaking 110 teams vied for a total of $170,000 in...
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- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
share of female candidates from major political parties in the subsequent election. This stems mainly from an increased probability that previous women candidates contest again, an important margin in India where a substantial number of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
people back to Bentonville headquarters for recognition; and executive merchandising contests that create incentives for executives to spend more time in the stores. All of this reflects basic company values and culture. In other very...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions for David Garvin and Michael Roberto
Harvard Business School professors David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto fielded questions about their article in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. Garvin and Roberto discuss the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
nations must choose their own paths, for better or worse. He later expanded on his ideas in the following interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. As a student at Cornell, Abdelal said, he became fascinated by the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these agglomeration economies may vary by firm, depending upon the relative value of each economy, and upon firm and agglomeration economy traits. To better determine when a firm will be...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
Harvard Business School MBA '03 students Raj De Datta, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Meghna Modi recently won the Social Enterprise track of the annual HBS Business Plan contest with their plan for brokering microfinance loans to families in...
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- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
cross-border finance and in patterns we have seen before. In his new book Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance, Abdelal documents the waxing and waning of international capital controls in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the View Details
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by Rawi Abdelal
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
them, first, requires in-depth knowledge of a given work setting. Quantifying them, next, requires multiple managers and employees answering questions that could get them fired if the company decided to apply its rules to the letter. This...
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by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
they overcame huge obstacles to execute their strategies in industries as diverse as renewable energy, organic food, natural beauty, eco-tourism, recycling, architecture, and finance. The pioneering efforts to build certification schemes and environmental reporting are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
leading players in these clusters are multi-location firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage knowledge for...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
forthcoming Abstract With rising CEO turnover, companies are increasingly looking outside for qualified candidates. Sure, externally recruited CEOs bring fresh perspectives and connections. But they lack the in-depth knowledge of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
online communities segregate into separate conversations when contributing to contestable knowledge involving controversial, subjective, and unverifiable topics? We analyze the contributors of biased and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, the essays suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by political authority, how it is claimed and View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
offshorability and wage level, where Blinder found no correlation. While Blinder found a slight wage penalty for the most offshorable jobs, the student data exhibited no evidence of wage depreciation from job contestability due to...
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Martha Lagace