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- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
competition only when the incumbent offers high (low) quality service relative to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby firms trade-off service quality and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
kind of moral bankruptcy, it isn't going to last. There are so many questions around the world as to whether we are taking on the responsibilities of economic leadership in a proper way. It takes great strength to sort that world out, and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
characterize what we found this year sort of as follows. I think, number one, what we found is that there's a very important moment here in the world economy and it's extremely important that policy makers and corporate leaders don't over... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
deliberate, using higher cognitive processing. While we might be likely to relegate gut feel to Type 1 thinking, Huang has found that what investors mean by the term is actually a combination of Type 1 and Type 2 decision making. “When people are making these View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge. "The delay was a big surprise," says Bo Becker, who coauthored the paper with colleagues Daniel B. Bergstresser and Guhan Subramanian. "Nobody thought the case had much merit. But all... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
after a merger." Tony Eckel said, "Properly applied, they are investments in the continuity and stability of the organization." Some were vehement in their opposition. "I view a retention bonus as a sort of blackmail... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
Media Wise That sort of approach isn't possible in today's media-rich world—and probably wouldn't be very effective anyway. "It's more like the Vietnam War now," Deighton continues. "The ideas have to belong to the people you're... View Details
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
effectively rewire some of the links in the network," says Stuart. "That sort of heated environment creates a rush of investment activity that increases the number of participants hoping to quickly take a company public. It... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
that is, top management's connections to major biotech firms. In contrast, upstream social capital-team members' ties to important research institutions-had no impact at all on the new organization's success. "In this industry," Higgins theorizes, "these... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
development has never been more urgent. Companies of all sorts realize that to survive in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment, they need different leadership skills and organizational capabilities from those... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
afraid of what's to come and pleading with God to let him off the hook because he says, "I have no courage, I am weak, and I want to get out of here. I just can't do this." Kenny: You mention his father, what was his childhood life like? What were the View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
(B) case focuses on the sourcing dilemma: pre-processing vs. source separation. To ensure that its waste input fuel is of sufficiently high quality (i.e., low level of inorganic contaminants), the company can either build a pre-processing facility to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
process analysis—a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management—in a setting that didn't involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting cranberries. Students got to see the design of a system, linked together in a... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
Organized labor, meanwhile, has little sympathy for any sort of sacrifice. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711084-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement (B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711085-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
and behaviors of both consumers and the distribution channels so that Montague folding bicycles have legitimacy." Harry Montague, an avid cyclist, is an example of the sort of "user-entrepreneur" studied by Tripsas.... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
"aware that business practices changed faster than academia could hope to capture in any sort of grand theoretical system," Cruikshank observes, "HBS professors tended to talk in terms of 'currently useful... View Details
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
merchants with these same marketing programs. Q: How should consumers protect themselves from potential fraud? A: It's highly desirable to keep your computer free of the sorts of bad software that I've described. There is a good reason... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
governments that caused their misery in the first place. In such mismanaged countries—which number close to seventy—a way must be found to change the basic system. Globalization—seen by many today as a sort of cure-all—will certainly not... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
investment hurdle rate on new products to stem the flow. But should all new ideas have the same hurdle rate? How can this help a producer sort the better from worse ideas in advance of bringing them to market? Will we as consumers... View Details