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- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
likes by the following day. Employers contemplating layoffs should take care to follow all legal requirements, recognizing recent changes in this respect. Many states have implemented temporary legal guidelines regarding employment that...
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by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
Francesca Gino
Francesca Gino is an award-winning researcher who focuses on why people make the decisions they do at work, and how leaders and employees have more productive, creative and fulfilling lives. She is the best-selling author, most recently, of “
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
By April, immediately after the first severe lockdown, the number of new online customers had spiked, as new shoppers represented 38 percent of shoppers in the US and 23...
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- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
mind-sets. When companies relinquish a fundamental task—such as designing a new product—to customers, the two parties must redefine their relationship, and this change can be risky. With custom computer chips, for instance, companies...
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by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia
Consumer product makers looking to sell in Asia cannot expect the relative homogeneity they find in the U.S. or European countries, according to the panelists at the "Consumer Marketing in Asia" panel at the HBS Asia Business...
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by Julie Jette
- 15 Jan 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
The Creation and Evolution of Entrepreneurial Public Markets
- 05 Mar 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change
- 18 Mar 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives
- 08 Oct 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
manager's skills. When the telecommunications industry was deregulated and challenged by new entrants, for instance, few former Bell Systems managers were able to successfully transition to the fast-moving,...
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- 07 Jan 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
International Differences in the Size and Roles of Corporate Headquarters: An Empirical Examination
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
was barely any lights, no public transportation, and an airport with one gate. I wanted the lights of the city, the bustle of a subway, the noise of a flight taking off from an airport to a new destination. When I started my career after...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
This opinion piece, first published in the New York Times in August 2005, has been updated by Pankaj Ghemawat for HBS Working Knowledge.Mighty Wal-Mart's headquarters in...
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- 21 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment
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by Laura Alfaro & Andrew Charlton
- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
several key drivers: Product quality improved each year for four consecutive years Annual yield losses were reduced by 70 percent Safety incidents resulting in lost work were reduced by 80 percent...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 10 Nov 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930
- 09 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity
- 11 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship
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by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda
- 14 Jan 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Optimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions
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by Benjamin G. Edelman & Michael Schwarz