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- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
in the Spring 2003 issue of California Management Review. In the piece, the authors offer case studies of Unocal, Nike, and Novartis. Spar and... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions for David Garvin and Michael Roberto
the article that the inquiry approach, which you prefer, doesn't come easily or naturally to most people. How can people make inquiry their main method of decision making? A:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
tackle if reporting is to achieve legitimacy in the system of market capitalism, says Ramanna. "One of the things we hope the conference does is bring to bear some of our... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
lives, said Narayanan. Owens & Minor allowed customers to internalize the consequences of their demand for services.— V.G. Narayanan The case of Video Vault, a small outfit... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
technological disruptions. Scholars such as HBS professors Clayton M. Christensen, well known for his research on disruptive technological change and author of The Innovator's Dilemma, and Dorothy Leonard, whose idea of "core... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
selectivity to staff their firms in response to demand. Growth goals should return to a method of deriving from––not providing the primary impetus for––firm management goals. Adapt governance. View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
MarsYu Who says finance is boring? These stories, written about HBS faculty research and case studies, cover such diverse topics as financial adviser robots, the rise of impact investing, and View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
minority backgrounds enter business schools as well as post-graduate employment are soon dashed by an inability or unwillingness on the part of organizations to tap into and retain that talent. In business, View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
important qualities and capabilities to be sought in a successor to Welch is moot. But as in any good Harvard Business School case discussion, hindsight provides neither a guide to the future nor necessarily... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
"as part of a small team building a new company ... the time we spend together (as opposed to the day per week that she and her colleagues telecommute) ... is the most... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
than what traits they display. Importantly, the reconstruction of masculine identity on the platforms was not simply a case of men replacing the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
In 2012, two seasoned scholars shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their research on designing markets. Lloyd Shapley had developed theoretical methods to create stable matches in... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
solely a product problem. NB: I imagine that doing a good job of picking that mainstream market is a function of the entrepreneur's own experience in an industry and his or her intuition about the future.... View Details
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
all this time. It's this long, continuous, consistent data set." By comparing a brand's ranking before and after a merger, Sheen reasoned, he could gauge the merger's effect on quality (at least in View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
affected only those companies that had not yet patched known flaws in their software. The fixes had been available from the vendor for more than a month in the View Details
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
Wildebeest added: “There is a good case to be made that deficits from loose monetary policy are the actual cause of the ever-widening income disparity in View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
drug promotion of all kinds and the bulk of that spending continues to be directed toward health care professionals. Q: What was the purpose of your study and what methods were... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
within a state with a closely contested election during an election year. In the latter case, high employment firms were 25 percent less likely to be sanctioned than those in the bottom tier. These results... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
data—in some cases in exchange for free services or lower prices—as well as firms that pledge to keep a lid on people's information, but often charge consumers higher prices. Firms competing with privacy tend to benefit from engaging in... View Details
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
reduced to one unit), rapid response (utilizing faster, more dependable methods of transportation and rapid-transfer "cross-docking"), and positive tracking (allowing customers to trace the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett