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- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and community development nonprofit organization. Harvey explains that exorbitant housing costs encourage young, professional workers to look elsewhere for jobs, threatening the...
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- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
important narratives around the world that encourages students to more fully inhabit the story's hero—leads to fuller engagement and more active learning. We report results using this approach with undergraduate and graduate students in...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Michael Beer and Lynda St. ClairHarvard Business School Case 913-521 A new Dallas-based health and beauty spa aims to use a highly distinctive human resource system as the foundation of its competitive strategy. By encouraging employees...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
that, relative to offering free shipping, offering contingent free shipping increases basket sizes by encouraging consumers to meet the minimum order threshold. Consumers incur search costs to meet this threshold exactly; sellers may...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
Penney's, but will only buy clothing at specialty stores. Sören Petsch, finance manager at Sears, Roebuck & Co., said encouraging customers who buy from one category at their stores to buy from more departments is a key challenge for...
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- 28 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
significant challenges to overcome? A: It was refreshing and encouraging to experience the strong positive response to the SEI from HBS students, alums, faculty, and staff. By providing support, encouragement, and intellectual legitimacy,...
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by Manda Salls
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
encourage Shell Oil to test Smart-Pump, an automated device providing a two-minute fill while allowing the driver to remain in the car. It appears that we are well on our way to "drive through" refueling without stopping, a...
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by James Heskett
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system...
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- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
happiness and well-being and how a government could go about encouraging happiness. The UAE in effect implemented a complex incentive scheme with the aim of coordinating attempts to increase happiness and well-being. The connection...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
"Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?" As you think about business 31 years after that article appeared, do you see changes in the roles you described back then? What have you learned about leaders and managersin business today that View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
support. Internally, it is important so that people working within the nonprofit have a clear idea of concrete goals that the organization is saying it will achieve, because this will help them figure out what actions to take, motivate them to make greater effort, and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
addition, OLPC had to determine the right mix of attributes and features that would appeal to the target users, children. Design could not be an afterthought; the laptop had to be attractive enough so a young person would feel proud to own it. The XO also required...
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- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
unique ways that multinational corporations (MNCs) and local businesses are serving the previously invisible BOP market: Nestlé, with its "milk-district model" that encourages supporting businesses to spring up around its...
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by Garry Emmons
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
but going without formal organizational membership also has its challenges. I am also looking forward to opening new fields on organizational gray zones. Gray zones operate at the intersection of the legal and illegal boundary. I welcome suggestions from readers as to...
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- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
says. He is encouraged by congressional efforts to standardize food date labels and do away with what is now a patchwork of state laws. “A lot of manufacturers and retailers are listening,” he says. “Everyone has a grandmother who says,...
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- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
customer needs both today and tomorrow, and the other that is focused on crazy innovation." Leaders who strike the balance well, note O'Reilly and Tushman, do so by mitigating the effects of separation with a structure that View Details
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by Paul Michelman
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
inclusion. Define goals that define success and that signal how each person contributes to achieving the overall goals. Inspire initiative: Encourage new ideas and treat people with respect as experts in their work. View Details
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
how can you step up to make the most immediate and positive impact on the issue? Think about what effect your efforts will have on the people around you. And consider what you can do to encourage those hanging back to pitch in. Reach: How...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
a lower threat of escalation. Furthermore, acknowledging possible unintentionality may encourage settlement due to the typically inadvertent nature of these incidences. The resulting higher settlement rate prevents additional legal action...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
develop new ways of working together. To bolster out-of-the-box thinking at their companies, boards should promote diversity among members. They should foster "creative abrasion" to keep ideas flowing and rethink traditional methods of governing. And they must learn to...
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Carmen Nobel