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- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
accountability. Focused tightly on the bottom line, these companies don't know how to quantify the value of legacy functions, which often evolve into jobs that simply support those departments that drive the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
Potential real estate moguls at the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference received an earful about profiting in a down market, creating value where there is none, and the addiction of... View Details
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
Even if you have a great deal of money, the best entrepreneurs won't care—they'll just want a good partner. And that comes by building a reputation over time: "It's all about performance—it's easy for an entrepreneur to make a few... View Details
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
etc., you would get a list of very interesting and sometimes helpful practices. And if you, as a public leader, aren’t doing the things on that list, you should. And if you, the public, aren’t demanding them, you should. But the reality... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards
this happens is one of the many subjects discussed in the new book Joining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know, by authors Marc J. Epstein of Rice University and F. Warren... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
the right balance between the private benefits of integrated markets and the public value of civic engagement, evidence on the size of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
in the grocery retail business. Loyalty programs do not affect the behavior of best customers. By using rewards programs, retailers give away things for free that their best customers would have bought anyway. Retailers thereby begin to... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2280370 A Formal Theory of Strategy By: Van den Steen, Eric Abstract—What makes a decision strategic? When is strategy most important? This paper studies the structure and value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
On It? The Effects of Overnight Sleep on Subjective Preference-Based Choice, forthcoming in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Sleeping on a decision may not lead to a... View Details
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
another company for an amount of money that exceeds the fair market value. Specifically, the FASB was trying to determine whether goodwill should be amortized. To that end, FASB leaders met with leaders from... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
It's a startling idea: Instead of relying on regulators to protect our privacy against telemarketers, data miners, and consumer companies, we should capitalize on the value of... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
hard for multinationals to figure out the value of South African companies and affects their assessments of potential partners. Executives would do well to identify a country's... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
Many companies can double or even triple their capacity to invest in strategic assets and competencies by properly managing their "risk balance sheet," argues Harvard Business School professor Robert C. Merton. In a provocative article on the View Details
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
managers can team with creative talent in six "culture industries": Fashion, publishing, art/architecture/design, film, music, and food. Her subjects include fashion pioneer Chanel, publishers Penguin and Atavist, film icons... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Minor says it was illuminating to use “regular” subjects as opposed to undergrads, who aren’t necessarily representative View Details
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
supply of VC money and told you to start a viable social network, what would it look like? What would it do differently? SG: I wouldn't build a social network for the masses because I think that space is... View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
profitability. There are at least two antidotes to this scenario. One involves serial acquisitions. But research has suggested that most acquisitions destroy value. This helps explain why the stock of acquiring firms is often discounted... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
competitive position as important factors in determining how management might respond to NGOs. Do have you any recommendations for managers in determining the relative value of each factor? Spar: Firms need... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell