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- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
Editor's note: As traditional hierarchical organizations flatten, new ways of thinking about internal communications must be developed—news no longer flows just from top to bottom. In Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
measures: the resources needed to perform an activity, and the time it takes to perform it. Feeley, Kaplan, and a team at UnitedHealthcare are using TDABC to track the costs for the bundled payment pilot.... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
Field—approached the tricky subject of branding. The concept of branding as we understand it today was just barely entering business parlance at the time of Heinz and Field, who came to prominence in the late nineteenth century, Koehn... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
communications in corporations? Where did the idea come from? Toby Stuart: For the first time in history, it is possible to actually analyze the "soft wiring" or largely complete social networks inside organizations. This is feasible... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
How long can the real estate boom last? No one knows the answer, but this is the most exciting time in real estate during my almost thirty years in the business. The world is awash with liquidity, and real estate is capturing much of it... View Details
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
fortuitous things. I came to Pfizer from CARE and it was around that time Clark's Tropical Disease Research Program had hired someone who used to work for me at CARE. She informed her boss, Joe Cook, that I... View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
ask them whether a drug will “work in people like me.” Beyond the health and financial ramifications of overlooking large population segments, the research offers a call to action for drugmakers at a time when companies face pressure to... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
contingent claims analysis (CCA). We illustrate how to use the CCA approach to model and measure sectoral and national risk exposures, and analyze policies to offset their potentially harmful effects. This new framework provides economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
irony, given its title and topic. I had confidence in the quality of my work, but not enough to bet my job. I canceled publication and forfeited my advance. It was painful to scuttle Speed Trap, but I don’t second guess my decision: I got promoted. I recently read... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
Last year I completed a case series on GE, titled "GE ... We Bring Good Things to Life," in which the issue of CEO succession was raised in the last of the two cases. In classes in which I've used... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
value, the issue is framing price appropriately. Frank Cespedes: To use a small daily example: At the gas pump, the credit-card price is typically the default price while paying cash garners a discount. Yet, many executives seem to think... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
the puzzle for us in truly understanding the problem. We have known for a long time that U.S. healthcare is high cost. What everyone assumed was that U.S. healthcare was very high quality, which at least... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
made up 46.7 percent of the US labor force, and filled more than half of management, professional, and related occupations. If the strategy was to get more women in the workplace and let them naturally ascend to positions of upper... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
an article that explores various uses of the corporate assessment tool that they developed for their research. They recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss the origins of the project, and where they plan to take it from... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
about the product so you could discover whether you wanted to buy it. But now we have all the information about all the new products available to us online. Now, we want ads to entertain us." But making an ad go viral requires more than... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
discussions that we’ve had” The case study, written by HBS’s Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration and head of the Technology and Operations Management unit, focuses on the data analysis used by the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
organization culture, it prompted several executives and alumni to ask me if I had a comment on the subject. In typical business school fashion, I’m asking for yours. The article cites four case examples--Ecolab, Delta, Ford, and Novartis--in which current or former... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
annually and acquired 15 million customers—more than a third of the country’s population—within five years of launch. A woman checks her mobile phone at a floating market in the Mekong River, Vietnam. Mobile phone use is widespread in... View Details
- 11 Jun 2019
- Book
These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway
greater burdens on managers but also creating new opportunities to shine. Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time Making a business successful is a challenge in itself, but making a green business profitable is an even... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
employees are informed with a timely explanation of reasons for the shortfall. Relatively small differences in the degree to which expectations are perceived to be met and trust established appear to be associated with significant... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett