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- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
therefore facilitates implementation," says Roberto, who teaches in the School's General Management unit. An e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge follows. Martha Lagace: Why should a leader be concerned when he or she hears... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
case was taught, the general consensus was that the economics of the business were very shaky. Q: How so? A: There were two parts to the economics. You could say there was the part of the business that ran in the digital world and there... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Illustration created by HBSWK using assets generated by Midjourney, an artificial intelligence tool View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
leaders constantly have new “teams” to manage. Nowhere is this more relevant than in the NFL, where an average player’s career lasts just over three years. For that reason, the generation gap between coach and players grows over time,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
says. "When you make yourself vulnerable, people like you more." Buell hopes the research findings get company executives thinking about finding ways to engage more openly with consumers in general as a potential way of piquing... View Details
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
More recently, Section 363 sales played a key role in some of the largest and most complex bankruptcies of the financial crisis, including General Motors and Lehman Brothers. “The amount of debt that needed to be restructured posed a... View Details
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
Successful retailers connect with customers via loyalty programs at three levels. The first is an introduction of sorts: the customer receives a generic reward for enrolling in the program. At the second level, the retailer contacts the... View Details
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
that they are not looking for a job, even if they are. Empirical Evidence With these general ideas of why people use these sites, Piskorski examined weblogs of social networking sites (not LinkedIn) to see what people did when they were... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
Businesspeople ignore this lesson at their peril—to survive, they must be entrepreneurial and think strategically. Yet in Schumpeter's view, the general prosperity produced by the "capitalist engine" far outweighs the wreckage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
others involved, how a complicated and difficult restructuring actually gets done. My book is also targeted at corporate executives, general managers and practitioners. Hopefully, investment bankers, strategy consultants, and attorneys... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
this paper. A final general observation is that the decisions that most challenge consumers involve other parties. Rather than reiterating Bagozzi's (2000) discussion of the number of people in the decision-making unit, I am emphasizing... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/314004-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-021 Management Levels at Staples (B): General Manager & District Manager (Abridged (B) & (C)) Supplements 314-004. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
exporters have been politically repressive, generous with foreign aid when oil prices are high, and free of civil war; in contrast, the recipients of petro aid were relatively repressive (and peaceful) during the period of high oil prices... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
you see as some of key factors that led to this? Luis Viceira:The Dow is an index that has traditionally included the largest companies traded in the US stock market. Its growth since its inception reflects the growth and profitability of these companies and more View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
Pareto robustly optimal (PRO) solutions, extend the RO framework by proposing practical methods that verify Pareto optimality, and generate solutions that are PRO. Critically important, our methodology involves solving optimization... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
obtain a master's degree from the Michigan Technological University. Thirty-two years later, a young Indian in Bangalore, Saumil Majmudar, started a small company. Those two events are connected by a trail of knowledge accumulation and hand-offs, of experience hard-won... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
countries. However, despite the fact that the U.S. has more competition than virtually any other health care system in the world, the costs are high and rising without delivering higher quality. The problems with the U.S. health care system are View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
Post article, a mindset shift has occurred among owners and general managers responsible for hiring coaches: They are starting to embrace innovative offensive tactics, and to empower head coaches who can implement them. “For years,”... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater mission of providing multilateral development financing as well as non-financial technical support and expertise for the Latin American and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
opportunity-framed perspective, there is generally an executive who acts as an integrator, actively managing the tensions between the parent and the new venture. At Teradyne, the CEO performed this role, but a divisional manager or even... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower