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- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
transition? Would these strategic decisions be sufficient to steer SOHO China through new economic hurdles? Is 3Q enough to buoy SOHO’s performance and bring it into the next phase of growth? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
other hand, always prided itself on its personal touch, empowering individual stores—even individual employees—to make decisions about products that emphasize high quality, healthy, and local foods. That decentralization, however, caused... View Details
- 23 Nov 2021
- Book
What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins
produce desired behaviors. That slows down decision making and execution. Employees (and, as we will see) customers are loyal only to a point. This is a culture designed to support one strategy. It may be a strategy built around a highly... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
predict that they will act ethically at the bargaining table. 2. Participating in the negotiation: During this action phase when negotiators are at the table, making decisions about offers, agreements, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?
Administration. He looked most closely at decisions made during phase two clinical trials—the period when diseased patients are treated with the test drug and results are compared with patients randomly... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
differently in the initial phases of the restructuring, pushing back against the French government and other shareholders by resisting the pressure for increased dividends, or more accurately gauging the likely acceleration of competition... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
in the retail industry, some shareholders claimed that the price was "grossly inadequate," making the decision whether to approve the transaction a difficult one for shareholders generally. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt
associated with stress. To control for differences in cortisol production, all the women participated in the stress test during the luteal phase of their menstrual cycles, which is the phase when cortisol... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
academics call transactional “friction.” As a result, decisions are made and implemented faster and at lower cost, something critical in an age where speed takes on greater and greater value. At a 2019 business conference, Brian Chesky,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
"paper" board, existing only on paper, or acts as a "rubber stamp," validating whatever decisions the owner makes. During the Sibling Partnership stage, where two or more siblings have voting control of the company,... View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
Levy Publication:American Journal of Public Health (forthcoming) Abstract Objectives: We assessed whether a 2-phase labeling and choice architecture intervention increased sales of healthy food and beverages in a large hospital cafeteria. Methods: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
challenge as one of employing focus appropriately or in proper proportion to more broadly "noticing." Cedric Roossel said: "To put it simply, you don't want to be focused during a strategy definition phase but you have to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
http://hbr.org/product/Opening-the-Valve--From-S/an/415015-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-016 Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (B) The (B) case provides significant detail on Valve's initial decisions but keeps the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
class supplier to design and build a turnkey automotive painting facility in Oakville, Canada. Ford and ABB agreed to work together in an initial preparatory phase, rejecting the traditional approach of bids based on incomplete information. The initial preparatory... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
have assumed greater roles in defining disease categories than in the past and now influence clinical trials and participate in regulatory decision making. Yet these developments are far from universal and are taking very different forms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
worries, their personal finances may be in shambles. Most entrepreneurs cut their own salaries as their venture goes into decline, and many have invested their life savings in the startup—along with funds from friends and family. If entrepreneurs reach the acceptance... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
methods and to make decisions on quantitative analysis. This book offers a variety of practical tools and examples to improve a manager's understanding of business analytics, and to enhance their thinking and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
phases of a new industry, formed a strategic goal. Our data show goal formation as a phased social process. By aggregating previously encountered solutions to known problems, the founding team formed an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
systems for coordinating group decisions or managing event tickets. The long-run view is that there is real fundamental technological value here, and so what really matters for the market is whether we can realize that value through... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
correctly, and adjust the amount of fertilizer they use accordingly. “It’s so accurate, you can make these decisions on a plant-by-plant basis,” Lal says. In transportation, meanwhile, companies are selling everything from jet engines to... View Details