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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
One day in 2010 the CEO of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced that thousands of employees would soon conduct business in a tongue most of them knew nothing about: English. Within days all the signs at the Tokyo headquarters were...
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- 15 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing
quantitative and qualitative research to explain how we can turn cash into contentment. The key lies in changing our spending habits and adhering to five key principles: Buy Experiences (research shows that...
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Re: Michael I. Norton
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
operations for any of the multiple workers and vendors involved in getting goods from the loading dock to the warehouse. Over the course of the pandemic, RoadSync grew from 25 employees to 100 and now operates with a hybrid workplace...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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New Releases
against Netscape, as the two companies vied for leadership in the Internet-browser software market during the mid-1990s. Based on extensive interviews with key officers and employees of Netscape - including...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
of business closures.” “We’re finding that you can’t save businesses by just allowing them to reopen,” Mills says. “Until it’s safe, their employees don’t want to come back. Their customers don’t want to come back. There’s no one out...
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- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development
organization that teach strategy setting, leadership, and giving and receiving feedback. Key Takeaways Career development is an important factor in employee satisfaction and retention as well as...
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- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees' Career Development
that teach strategy setting, leadership, and giving and receiving feedback. Key Takeaways Career development is an important factor in employee satisfaction and retention as well as organizational success....
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- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
disseminating information about peer behavior on savings. Low-saving employees received simplified plan enrollment or contribution increase forms. A randomized subset of forms stated the fraction of age-matched coworkers participating in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
providers continued to feel constrained. Now, no one's happy—not the insurers, not the patients, not the doctors and nurses, not the hospitals, and certainly not the companies that are footing the bill. The situation is dire, but there is a way out of the mess—and the...
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by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
Nohria: The key moment really came when we clearly framed the question, "What basic mental drives do all humans have as members of the same species?" Once the question was sharply posed and carefully considered, drawing on our...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
now has 140 employees and forecasted revenues of $125 million in 2009. Behind those figures, however, is the story of a company that has survived more than one brush with the void by reinventing itself through continuous, deep-seated...
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- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
payoffs of e-commerce operational and capital investments are necessary to demonstrate the value creation of e-commerce initiatives and to obtain additional resources for critical e-commerce projects. The measures are essential to monitor the View Details
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by Marc J. Epstein
- Web
Departments | Employment
Financial Office Global Initiative Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty conduct research and develop cases that capture key business and management developments wherever they occur, with the support of the School's network of Global...
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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
item in the collection is the memoir Jay Cooke wrote late in life. Also noteworthy are the agreements Cooke made with other firms, in particular an 1869 contract between Cooke and the Northern Pacific Railroad. Collection Guide...
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- 20 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Chasing a Dream: My Summer Internship at Chelsea Football Club
Johann Farhat (MBA 2025) holds a Civil Engineering degree from the American University of Beirut. After graduating, he spent three years in management consulting at Strategy& in Dubai before moving to Madrid to work at Amazon for another three years. At Harvard...
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- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
the conditions that enable moral insight and important practical implications. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54871 Harvard Business School Case 318-143 Renegotiating NAFTA January 1, 2019 marked the 25th anniversary of the North...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
at essentially the same frequency as they target cash in segments related to alleged infringement. By contrast, cash is neither a key driver of intellectual property lawsuits by practicing entities (e.g., IBM and Intel) nor of any other...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
negotiators define the game, the group writes, "may be key to better understanding why parties do not reach agreements when we think they should." Preconceptions Count No one goes into a...
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by Martha Lagace
- Career Coach
Craig Husa
value to their customers. Craig’s ability and desire to coach team members, both young and old, has been a key to the success of these teams. “The only thing worse than training your employees and having...
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- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
blues, and a job set up for failure. If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer Researcher Ethan Rouen discovers that rank-and-file employees understand the boss deserves a big salary, but only when...
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by Sean Silverthorne