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- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
says. “Digital technology has the potential to completely disrupt the kinds of channels they’re used to. Take the music industry: new technologies allow someone like Beyoncé to have a direct route to the consumer, which has all kinds of... View Details
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
league's partners include Nike, Monster Energy, and Fox Sports, indicating the sport's potential to drive both consumer advertising and new media rights. "There's a rabid fan base," Higgins says of the skateboarding league.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
constituencies within their organization, making the identity of the leader unimportant as long as the internal dynamics of the organization remain constant. Leader selection systems. The process by which leaders come to power homogenizes the pool of View Details
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
registered. Other countries, including Australia and Indonesia, are studying the UIDAI system with thoughts of potentially pursuing similar programs of their own. And the impressive scale of the project has attracted the attention of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
personally special as we co-wrote a chapter together in a past book, Confidence, focusing on Nelson Mandela’s leadership lessons for organizations and businesses seeking large scale transformation. The Fearless Organization touches on themes of how to unlock the full... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
potential explanations or collapse many mechanisms altogether. We discuss the empirical difficulties that arise in distinguishing between different mechanisms as well as some promising approaches for making progress in doing so. We also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
potentially greater, more contingent control rights are used. 2006 Strategic Organization Digitization, Innovation, and Copyright: What Is the Agenda? By: Lerner, Josh, Shane Greenstein, and Scott Stern Abstract—This essay discusses the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
and industry-level evidence. We find a positive robust correlation between de jure and de facto measures of international financial integration and proxies for entrepreneurial activity such as entry, size, and skewness of the firm-size distribution. We then explore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
attracted to skilled labor and specialized suppliers than they are to potential knowledge spillovers, even in R&D intensive industries. We also find that leading firms will be more attracted to pools of labor, suppliers, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
etc.) to implement the new strategy. Purchase the case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109015 BMW's Project Switch (B): Importers vs. National Sales Companies Harvard Business School Supplement 509-024 BMW is faced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
delivery tomorrow versus two days in the future do not show this want/should pattern, and we briefly discuss survey results suggesting a potential explanation for the nonlinearity in customers' apparent decreasing impatience. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
Bill after World War II, which created a huge pool of potential new students. What were other crucial turning points? A: The Great Depression of the 1930s reinvigorated the discourse and questions about what a profession is and what end... View Details
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
days has been advising Congressional and business leaders about potential aid approaches. “Money in the door allows you to put money out the door.” A cash crunch with no end in sight The JPMorgan Chase Institute estimates that the average... View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
system (largely intended to identify the attractiveness or special needs of a potential immigrant) used in Canada and some other countries.” Do you agree with David Wittenberg regarding the adoption of a Canadian-style system for sorting... View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
useless, but some will be useful,” Koning says. “If the person is open, they will take in the good and the bad and potentially find ways to recombine them to generate a great idea.” On the other hand, people who were closed didn’t... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
benefits from regulatory and enforcement agencies if something goes amiss. For example, showing that a firm took pains to educate employees on legal regulations can potentially reduce fines by up to 95 percent. Ideally, the code of ethics... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
economies.) Is our obsession with technology creating new kinds of potential hazards in the workplace? Is there something wrong with the way we work? What can we do about it? What do you think? To Read More: Leslie A. Perlow, Sleeping... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
concentration of wealth is very high. Others view inequality as a potential drag on the economy, a deterrent to the development of a strong, large middle class, which in turn is considered essential to economic growth and development.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett