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  • 30 Nov 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy
  • 03 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

people use various online social platforms, makes some predictions. In the first decade of its existence, Facebook, aided by the broad adoption of mobile devices and fast internet connections, emerged as a virtual Cheers bar where people share their lives with a legion... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
  • 10 Nov 2008
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

need to bring trouble-shooting forums in house, Ruediger Voelske said, "Innovations and strategies can then be developed from forum experience." Others offered examples of interesting applications of the idea of involving... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

and resource-efficient development with the use of information and communication technologies to better manage complex urban systems. Book: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415893169/ Integrated Reporting Requires Integrated... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

geographical area are asking lots of questions about the policy on taking gifts from certain ministers, then this would help compliance leaders appreciate that maybe it’s time to go back and make sure people understand our gifts policy... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • January 2009 (Revised May 2011)
  • Case

China Mobile's Rural Communications Strategy

By: William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, G.A. Donovan and Tracy Manty
China Mobile was the world's leading mobile communications service provider with over 400 million customers. In some cities, its penetration rate was over 100%. With such huge successes, Chairman Wang Jianzhou was exploring ways to expand its customer base. Nearly... View Details
Keywords: Communication Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Investment; Rural Scope; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Telecommunications Industry; China
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  • October 2016
  • Case

Yili Group: Building a Global Dairy Company

By: William C. Kirby and Nancy Hua Dai
From its humble beginnings as a local Chinese dairy company, the Inner Mongolia Yili Group has become one of the largest dairy companies in the world. To achieve this, Yili has aggressively expanded its footprint overseas including building the world’s largest... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Markets And Industries; Global Supply Chain; Competition; Culture; Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Business Growth and Maturation; Food; Global Range; Local Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Nutrition; Employee Relationship Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Supply Chain; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; China
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  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

time. Read the paper: http://www.europeanceo.com/business-and-management/2012/07/iso-standards-stamp-approval/ Children Develop a Veil of Fairness Authors:Alex Shaw, Natalia Montinari, Marco Piovesan, Kristina Olson, Francesca Gino, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

Evolution and Resilience Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence By: Jones, G. Abstract—This chapter explores the British experience in a volume which examines the historical evolution of business groups in developed Western... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

Many organizations have implemented incident reporting systems to highlight actual and potential operational failures in order to encourage problem solving and prevent subsequent failures. Our study is among the first to develop and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

across space and over time, several patterns are documented. Conflict-related deaths are significantly higher in poorer districts and in geographical locations that favor insurgents, such as mountains and forests; a 10-percentage point... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

the detrimental effects of each trigger. We conclude by discussing implications and recommendations for organizational scholars to take a more integrative approach to developing and evaluating theory about unethical behavior. Learning... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

best uses of technology and other support systems create frontline service heroes and heroines, so leaders use technology to elevate the most important and eliminate the worst service jobs; (7) satisfying customers is not enough, so leaders take steps to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle, EME borrowers experience a 32-percentage-point greater increase in the volume of loans issued by foreign banks than do borrowers from developed markets, with a similarly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

W. Feeley Abstract—Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own medical information into the EHR. Prior to the implementation... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

explanations for entrepreneurial success in nascent markets but leaves a key imperative unexplored: the business model. By studying five ventures in the same nascent market, we develop a novel theoretical framework for understanding how... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

increase medical business skills and raise clinical performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53281 Tournament Incentive Plans Incorporating Objective and Subjective Criteria: Implications for a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

$1 million annually in cash and in-kind gifts and helping the organization to expand nationally. City Year in turn played a central role in helping Timberland develop and implement its strategy for community service and a high-engagement... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 4

(November-December 2011) Abstract Commercial open source software (COSS) products-privately developed software based on publicly available source code-represent a rapidly growing, multibillion-dollar market. A unique aspect of competition... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Nov 2024
  • HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

inclusion goals and seek to make an impact beyond the balance sheet. He encourages investors to ask: “How do we make startups more accessible, both geographically and among different groups? How do we think about creating a playing field... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment