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- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
citizens, and others. David Zemanek added, "Isn't that why they call them 'for profit' companies?" Ann Brown said, "There's nothing wrong with profit as a goal. What's important is how you achieve it." (Tony Hayward's replacement at BP, announced on...
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by Jim Heskett
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
on all counts, you have a model that is under significant pressure. Alvarez: What's fascinating is that the model has worked for Walmart for a very long time and looked like a juggernaut that nobody believed...
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- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
business model that best matches the characteristics of the innovation and the needs of the target customer group. For example, one electronics company we worked with thought it had a new-market disruptive innovation on its hands. There...
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- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
solo travelers or small groups. You step inside, press a button for your destination, the door closes, and off you go down a narrow track. Two minutes later—presto, the door opens again and you alight at your destination. You've arrived for your meeting on View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
However, this project was a failure. As one former securities analyst noted, "None of this stuff worked the way it was supposed to." 76 This history seems especially relevant given GM's current attempts to create yet another...
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- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
as bacon ice cream. We propose that such choices are driven by consumers' continual striving to use time productively, make progress, and reach accomplishments (i.e., a productivity orientation). We argue that choices of collectable...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
leaders to make those hard decisions either." John argued that what is missing in MMT is that most economic theory works only within a limited range of economic conditions. “While the U.S. will benefit from MMT for perhaps a long...
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by James Heskett
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
Herz, he wrote the HBS working paper "Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society" [PDF]. An abridged version of Ebrahim's testimony follows. (The entire testimony is available as a PDF)....
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by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
today's companies face. I show that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
markets; however we find significant correlations between kidney market disapproval and attitudes reflecting disapproval towards certain transactions—including both other body markets and market encroachment into traditionally non-market exchanges, such as food...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
Working PapersThe Architecture of Complex Systems: Do Core-Periphery Structures Dominate? Authors:Alan MacCormack, Carliss Baldwin, and John Rusnak Abstract Any complex technological system can be decomposed into a number of subsystems...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business. During the 2008 financial...
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- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
Digital expansion could include everything from improving the center's website to streaming live performances to movie theaters around the country. Another option is to work more closely with content distributors like iTunes or Hulu to...
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- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsAscent Media Group (A) Harvard Business School Case 607-064 Ascent Media races to adapt to the changes resulting from increasing digitalization of its business, from creative...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
associate knowledge with editorials, professional and customer reviews, and ratings systems. Expanding fulfillment networks get products to customers in increasingly shorter time windows, defeating any convenience advantage that category...
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- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.' " For the past several decades Silk has devoted himself to prying open the black box, understanding the economics underlying the work advertising agencies...
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- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
excel in small firms, where they can set a goal and then empower others to work toward it. Navy and Air Force officers, who operate expensive, complex systems, such as submarines and aircraft carriers, are trained to follow processes to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many independent rating systems are designed primarily to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
leadership of Deng Xiaoping, there was an energy that you could feel—the possibility of stability and maybe a different face toward the outside world. But there was also the reality that it was a country that had only begun to emerge from a View Details
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by Deborah Blagg
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
NAS disclosures. Further, following the repeal of disclosure requirements we find no change in the earnings quality of client firms. In sum, data drawn from an earlier time period suggest that auditors' reputational incentives, possible...
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Sean Silverthorne