Filter Results
:
(579)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,353)
- People (4)
- News (416)
- Research (579)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (20)
- Faculty Publications (390)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,353)
- People (4)
- News (416)
- Research (579)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (20)
- Faculty Publications (390)
Sort by
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
providing incentives and protecting proprietary information as needed—then leveraging the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning through entities such as GNS Healthcare and IBM’s Watson to find an answer. Clinical trials...
View Details
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
mediated through communication channels like email, there are going to be challenges. However, if you have people who are intelligent about language, know how to manage, and know how to think about it at all levels in an organization, it...
View Details
Keywords:
Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
espoused behavior. Together, these problems conspire to undermine learning and reduce its effectiveness." Garvin also describes three distinct modes that successful learning organizations have adopted: intelligence gathering and...
View Details
Keywords:
by Laurie Joan Aron
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
generator for the shareholders. Basically you are managing to create an attractive annuity for shareholders. Lal: It's not just about eliminating the stores, but managing the business to maximize cash-flow. If done intelligently this can...
View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
unique role as arbiter and steward of strategy has been eclipsed. And an overemphasis on sustainable competitive advantage has obscured the importance of making strategy a dynamic tool for guiding the company's development over time. For any company, View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
factors like chauvinism. They mostly failed. But in failing to find a quantifiable explanation, they succeeded to challenge a commonly held notion that the corporate gender gap can be attributed to observable, measurable, controllable factors such as a woman’s View Details
Keywords:
by Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Breaks in Interaction Improve Collective Intelligence By: Bernstein, Ethan, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer Abstract— People influence each other when they interact to solve problems. Such social influence introduces both benefits (higher...
View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World For the first time in 100 years, new technologies such as artificial intelligence are causing firms to rethink their competitive strategy and organizational...
View Details
Keywords:
by Staff
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
monetary incentive to join the company more quickly than originally planned. The case provides an opportunity to analyze negotiation strategy and the importance of emotional intelligence and effective interpersonal communication during a...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
the researchers recently wrote in a GfK Marketing Intelligence Review article called "Beyond Bedlam: How Consumers and Brands Alike Are Playing the Web." In the last decade, marketers have used digital media in different ways. First, many...
View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Customer Intelligence (A)," HBS No. 107-055. These datasets are available upon request from the author. Purchase the note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109052 DermaCare: Zapping Zits Directly Harvard...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
in a U-Stor-It container in Inglewood, California. After losing his day job, he turns to his “auxiliary emergency backup job” as a “freelance stringer for the CIC, the Central Intelligence Corporation of Langley, Virginia.” He, along with...
View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
rigidity, unthinking application of age-old rules (vs.) careful reflective thought on matters that need intelligent application of criteria." Just how to promote slow thinking where it is appropriate stimulated an interesting and...
View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
options to their employees, ranging from indexed bond funds to microcap equity funds. Second, sources providing advice and information about mutual-fund investment results proliferated, with companies like Morningstar supplying individual investors with the data and...
View Details
Keywords:
by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
fruition. The typical pitfalls encountered in group decision-making are all too familiar. Who hasn't witnessed, for instance, the silence around a conference table as meeting participants turn suddenly speechless, unable to generate novel suggestions? Another common...
View Details
Keywords:
by Laurie Joan Aron
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
But we must all press and pray for a return to intelligent and careful deliberations, as this is a setting where shock treatments can do permanent harm. Regardless of political leaning, we must all hope and persevere that President...
View Details
Keywords:
by Staff
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
Quarterly Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia By: Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Organizations today can use both crowds and experts to produce...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
is the only way to identify the whereabouts of the otherwise invisible virus, similar to collecting enemy intelligence in time of war. From its experience with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in 2015, South Korea from...
View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
Massachusetts, is assessing its investment in Tableau, a data visualization company. Tableau, which conducted an IPO a few years ago, has been experiencing substantial growth as it aims at disrupting the business intelligence software...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne