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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at traditional strategy-consulting firms,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
Board Still, Feeley remains bullish on the value of value-based health care, and is heartened by high-level interest by government officials. Over the past few months, Feeley, Porter, and Kaplan met with Julian Harris, associate director for health at the View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
stated that their ventures were separate from their parent company, but their daily work processes indicated otherwise. Online sales reps still reported to and had offices near their print managers, for example. This direct reporting and... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
in a variety of ways, Khalsa says. "First of all, the roughly 15 percent of the staff who are Sikhs come to the office centered and focused after our morning spiritual practice, which gives us the clarity to make better decisions," he... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
also mind the gap over time. When UPS acquired Mail Boxes Etc. and FedEx acquired Kinko's, they helped to mind the gap for growing e-commerce sales deliveries. Neither firm can compete with the post office on individual residential... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
Case 112-702 On November 15, 2006, German prosecutors raided offices and homes of Siemens AG staff as part of an ongoing investigation into bribery. The subsequent investigations covered business representing 60% of Siemens' revenues and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
companies and, well, straight men. In the offices of a Cambridge software firm, the Deckingers are discussing their vision for Jess, Meet Ken with a team of mobile app designers. Their target audience is single, heterosexual women, ages... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
preparation offices were given the option to purchase U.S. Savings Bonds in addition to existing Block savings products. The fraction of filers who did any savings at the tax-site was 8.5 times higher at these treatment sites offering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the CFO
challenges. Recognizing their importance, HBS covers a portion of the staff and operational expenses required to support them, and shares the MBA tuition with the partnering Harvard schools. We receive generous support from HBS alumni,... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
destruction." Sharing the views of most of the industry, my septuagenarian grandfather was ill-prepared for the new era. The "how," though, was a question that had bothered me for years: How had the treasurer managed to do it? While the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
matter of avoiding particular missteps. Students really appreciate it when you have someone like Christina who is willing to come to class and talk openly about what happened.” In the stories that follow, alumni share their own takeaways... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
see, or rather what they will experience, will change as the technology evolves. There’s an anecdote IBMers share at Watson’s gleaming new headquarters on Astor Place in the East Village. One day, a boy named Kevin walked into his... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
rapidly replicate improved business processes throughout an organization, thereby not only increasing productivity but also market share and market value. We then empirically document a substantial increase in turbulence starting in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
adverse selection and moral hazard, which implies that the social benefits of bank monitoring must for incentive reasons be shared between depositors and banks. Consequently, socially too few deposits are made in equilibrium. Deposit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm performance have largely centered on economies of scope achieved by sharing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
skeptical Nigerian consumers to eat what its farmers grow. A couple of summers ago, Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (MBA 1999) saw this dilemma firsthand when she stopped by a small restaurant outside Lagos in southwest Nigeria, not far from the home she View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
structure, value, and finance large, "Greenfield" projects. He also has created the Project Finance Portal. Perhaps fittingly, his HBS office is just a few miles down the road from one of the most expensive public works project... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
premised on the proposition that proximity reduces the cost of search and coordination. Thus, learning from proximate parties is easier than from more distant ones. As a consequence, nearby individuals, teams, and firms share overlapping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
responsibilities as Weber Shandwick employees. Unlike office managers, who are measured based on the bottom line, CRLs are measured on top-line growth. Another objective of the CRL program is to enable Weber Shandwick to differentiate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
perspective, we reached out to alumni who had confronted similar challenges—including the OPEC crisis, the Vietnam War, the Financial Crisis of 2008—and we asked them how they made it through those difficult times. And in this special edition of Skydeck Voices, they... View Details