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- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
says, ‘I left my heart in San Francisco,’ but it wasn’t the ‘little cable cars climbing half-way to the stars’—it was the willingness to follow a long path of discovery and try and fail repeatedly until one succeeded. And the best... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
impact their decisions to climb the corporate ladder (or not). In Studies 1 and 2, when asked to list their core goals in life, women listed more life goals overall than men, and a smaller proportion of their goals related to achieving... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
effective, and efficient way? Q: For decades, Baby Boomers have driven the economy. Now, as you point out, Millennials are climbing into the driver's seat. From the retailers' perspective, how does this change the market? Alvarez: As... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
The United States housing market is tight and expensive and shows no signs of easing. Existing home sales hit a 15-year high in 2021, with 6.12 million sold, a jump of 8.5 percent, according to the National Association of Realtors. Median sales price View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 27 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur
Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million How Uber, Etsy, and Airbnb climbed from one thousand customers to one million. Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful Research at Harvard Business School takes a unique... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey
phenomenon as “cheapflation.” In the United States, the prices of the cheapest food products climbed 30 percent between January 2020 and May 2024, outpacing the 22 percent increase of the fanciest foods. Cheapflation: A global phenomenon... View Details
Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
During the past few years inventory turns among U.S. manufacturers have climbed steadily, and it appears as if productivity has improved nicely. One explanation for these happy trends is that the massive investments we've been making in... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
must be prepared to act when the stakes are much greater than expected. What Signals Should Leaders Send During A Crisis? High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest On May 10, 1996, five mountaineers from two teams perished while View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
executives made early career choices that placed them at the leading edge of the work they liked. They were more enthusiastic about the work itself and less concerned with how quickly—or slowly—they were climbing the corporate ladder. In... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
startups that found further success in the market—are rare, and mainly involve companies purchased for their intellectual property. Lessons for universities The study’s findings are significant as university research expenditures climb to... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
intense research with individual employees, try to make them partners in the research," she said. (HBS professor Nava Ashraf discussed this idea of co-producing knowledge in the Working Knowledge article, Climbing Down from the Ivory... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
period when overall GDP grew by only 5 percent. "Through the years of the 'Great Recession' and the very slow climb back, the businesses that live on the Internet have been a conspicuous exception to the general pattern of... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
were really losing their share for software patents compared to non-software inventions,” Kerr says. The ripple effects of invention Tech clusters, it turns out, are also important for non-software related patents, with those areas of invention View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
use gatekeepers to impose stringent controls on care—were resisted by patients and physicians. In response, the managed care organizations began relaxing their controls, allowing patients more freedom to see specialists and out-of-network doctors. Costs began to View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
first stay-at-home order. COVID-19 fears were keeping diners home. Restaurant visits spiked immediately when states allowed restaurants to offer in-person dining again. However, restaurant activity remained lower than pre-COVID levels. Restaurant demand after lockdowns... View Details
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
capitalists surveyed—who collectively manage $340 billion in assets—said they expected their funds to prosper. However, two-thirds acknowledged that investing had slowed. During the first half of 2020, they invested at 71 percent of pre-pandemic levels, a rate that... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
most state and city government balance sheets had just barely recovered from that shock when the pandemic hit. Green says it remains unclear whether climbing back from this new recession will take as long. Government leaders must make... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
Starbucks claims the world's largest Wi-Fi network, with some 2,200 stores offering wireless connectivity to latte sippers for a charge. That number will climb to 3,000 by year's end, according to the company. Darren Hostin, of Starbucks... View Details
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
the worldwide drug market. But today, the U.S. share has climbed to about 50 percent while the European slice has dwindled to 21 percent. What's more, many drug makers in Europe have moved their R&D facilities to the U.S., where they... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
investing, mostly through term debt. Debt capacity expansion led to firm growth, with profits increasing by 35 percent annually. Growth is even larger for firms further away from debt limits. Delinquency or debt restructuring rates didn’t View Details