Providing Marginal Rewards - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

rewarding to operate from a place of strength. Be unapologetic about protecting your time with your family. You’ll make mistakes, but over time you will hone the ability to know what to attend and what to miss.” —Eva Heyman (MBA 2002),... View Details

04 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

Pisano and David J. Teece Periodical:California Management Review 50, no. 1 (fall 2007): 278-296 Abstract Capturing value from innovation requires innovators to figure out how to blunt inroads into the profit stream by imitators, customers, suppliers, and other View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

in OSS one way to diminish Microsoft's dominance. We find that the presence of strategic buyers together with Linux's sufficiently strong demand-side learning results in Windows being driven out of the market. This may be one main reason why Microsoft has been View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

start my career at the level of a clerical worker. HBS had given me confidence, so I found another opportunity and left. Nobody will provide opportunities to women unless they initiate the move. Just sitting and waiting for changes to... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

Covering the Issues

banker, for instance, who authored "A New World for Women" in 1936, concluded, "It is inevitable that more and more women will occupy places of responsibility in our country's banks." Indeed, the Bulletin provides a window on the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

ability to use customer information for pricing or whether even larger rewards could be found in leveraging the connection to the GM family. However, although jointly selling auto insurance and cars is common in many countries, the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human... View Details

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Feb 2002
News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

rewarding and valuable to society. HBS professor Myra M. Hart, who conducted the survey, met many of its respondents at Charting Your Course: Alumnae Career Choices and Transitions, a prereunion program she launched last spring. Hart... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

margin to a core group of loyal users and you don't talk much about market share? (Market researchers pinpoint the Mac share at 2 to 4 percent of the overall PC market.) Is this a viable strategy for Apple? A: Over the long run, no. There... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

about tax legislation beyond concern over the amount of the check we write each April 15? Yes, very much so. Our tax policies reflect the values that the country stands for. Do we cut taxes on top earners or redistribute their wealth to help the less fortunate? Should... View Details