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- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
we be working instead on faster vaccine development once we know the shape of the virus? Rather than take risks with human lives, should we be giving more attention to the development of human substitutes for testing vaccines, View Details
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by James Heskett
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Research Summary
By: Leslie A. Perlow
There has been tremendous change in the workplace — ubiquitous technology, 24/7 globalization, hyper-efficiency and now significant changes in work location. Professor Perlow’s research focuses on the implications for the ways we work and live, and what we can do to... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
What's a Boss Worth?
exploration. “There is a growing literature in the social sciences about the importance of peer effects—many people think about how to form teams and what the right team should look like,” says Stanton. But according to this data, the effects of View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
begun to emerge that said technologies complement rather than substitute for labor. However, they also shift the demand for specific types of skills and other worker competencies. Such shifts imply unequal demographic impacts, but beyond...
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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
difference between complements and substitutes and discover the power of complements as a competitive advantage. Highlights Pricing Complements Discerning Complements from Substitutes Creating...
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
categories and then develop a stylized model that illustrates four contributing factors: the probability a customer finds their favorite brand, customers’ willingness to substitute brands, the cost and attractiveness of visiting other...
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- 05 May 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
opportunities. Harvard University and Urban Mining Industries: Decarbonizing the Supply Chain The case describes Harvard University's consideration to decarbonize its supply chain by replacing cement with a low-carbon substitute called...
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Managing Marketspace Service Interfaces
Jeffrey F. Rayport is focusing on the strategic challenges that face businesses selling information-intensive products and services. A key strategic issue in such businesses is the dematerialization of information-intensive products and services as a consequence of... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
per time unit of supplying capacity. For example, if employees receive an 8 percent compensation increase, the resource cost rate in our example increases from $0.80 per supplied minute to $0.864 per minute. If new machines are View Details
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by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented...
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- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
accelerating the integration of wind, solar, and battery storage — while leveraging existing infrastructure assets. TS’s products can be used to substitute legacy conductors using the same tools and installation procedures. TS is a...
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Understanding Customers
In conventional business case studies, protagonists almost never have the option of stepping back to seek a new understanding of the customer. But to be effective in practice, managers need both the self-assurance and ability to initiate and pursue, with rigor and...
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- 2013
- Working Paper
Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe
By: Christian Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv
This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to government policies and actions of individual companies in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path–related...
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Technological Innovation;
Competition;
Industry Clusters;
Globalization;
Economic Growth;
Europe
Ketels, Christian, and Sergiy Protsiv. "Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe." WWW for Europe Working Paper Series, No. 14, July 2013. (WIFO, Vienna.)
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
is to assume that quality of labor is genetic ." Flavius Chircu said, "I would simplify the analysis by substituting 'quality of labor' with 'quality of output,' be that output a product, service, or mix thereof." In Sneh...
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by by Jim Heskett
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
less at stake than I do." You might also suggest that your substitute is a harder bargainer than you are: " I don't want to walk away from this deal, but he's in charge and is not happy with the offer on the table." In both...
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by Deepak Malhotra
- Blog
Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives
buddy—someone in your work life who can give you direct feedback and a sanity check when needed. Step 8: Maximize Your Contribution Whether it's your first board meeting or your fortieth, there is no substitute for preparation. Read all...
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- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
about the first three levels, although certainly levels two and three abound in organizations. There's much more to admire in levels four, five, and six. Level Four: Achiever "Achievers often substitute the needs of the whole with...
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by Mitch Maidique
- 01 Dec 2015
- HBS Seminar