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- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
owe their life's blood to PARC—Adobe, SynOptics, VLSI, and 3Com, for example—together recorded a market value last year five or six times greater than that of mother Xerox. "By focusing too narrowly on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
Allison Ciechanover (Harvard MBA 2002) and Kunal Modi (Harvard MBA/MPP 2013), a manager at McKinsey & Co. in San Francisco. The influx of wealthy tech workers into San Francisco'sneighborhoods is the subject of a case... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial responses to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
did. Most teaching around being a successful negotiator focuses on preparations before discussions start, and on strategies during the talks. The problem: We don't spend nearly enough time after the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
It’s India Above China in New World Order
technology lab." Tell us briefly how and why you believe Chinese and Indian émigrés have come to perpetuate such different roles. Do you see these roles changing? A: The different composition of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
and these companies are meeting market demand, it's a good thing," he said. "The more space flights we do, the more we'll bring costs down." Some of the audience questions were less related to... View Details
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
inducing people into believing they can expertly control the ball will affect the way they perceive themselves as business influencers. In fact, Norton spends most of his time thinking about thinking. So... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
talent. Boldness and quickness go hand in hand on the battlefield. As Warfighting states, "Since war is fluid and opportunities fleeting, focus applies to time as well as... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
ten times that of developing nations. 3. Managers in these companies must often innovate on a shoestring budget, since the high cost and scarcity of capital preclude massive... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
transfer pricing, this present study pointed to acute problems of control and managing U.S. affiliates as an important factor. Q: What are the key themes you have discovered among foreign multinational... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
and clinician-reported outcomes. These need to be used for internal improvement in health care delivery organizations, as well as for public reporting, so that patients can make informed choices about their health care. We need to do a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
the former explanation: that the likelihood of Amazon's entry is positively correlated with the popularity and customer ratings of third-party sellers' products. We also find that Amazon's entry reduces the shipping View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for profit. The model is solved using game... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
reassignments (transfers) across posts of varying importance to control bureaucrats. High-skilled bureaucrats face less frequent political transfers and lower variability in the importance of their posts. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
salience of one's own ethical standards at the time of temptation (that is, when one faces the decision to cheat) reduces unethical behavior, a conclusion reached through a combination of lab and field... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
broad or focused managers, to leverage, to the timing of investment, and finally, to the compensation paid to both external managers and internal staff. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
traditional and ubiquitous command and control hierarchies of modern society inhibit, frustrate, and deny our natural instincts.” He suggests... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
planning, channel allocation, and the cost of returns. —Distributors, who provide pre- and post-sale technical support to their resellers on tens of thousands of SKUs, must... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
investors (such as hedge funds, mutual funds, and pension funds) from 1999 to 2014. The information came from Abel Noser Solutions (formerly Ancerno Ltd.), a firm that performs transaction cost analysis for... View Details
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
critical (but often neglected) part of the economy, all at a low cost to taxpayers. Gallup and other surveys show high support for small businesses. However, programs that support small businesses are not... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills