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- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
financial performance. Q: What are the biggest obstacles for companies attempting to implement this strategy? Rangan: The biggest obstacles remain exactly as they were ten years ago. While technology has enabled widespread application,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
and much of other knowledge work) is a process for creating form out of disorganized materials. Collaborating artists, using the human brain as their principal technology and ideas as their principal... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 2020
- Working Paper
Working (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers During the Coronavirus Shock
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Wesley W. Koo and Xina Li
Prior research has documented that during mortality-related crises workers face psychic costs and are motivated to make social contributions. In addition, management practices that encourage workers to make social contributions during a crisis create value for firms.... View Details
Keywords: Crisis; Social Contributions; Work From Home (WFH); Cannot Work From Home (CWFH); Social Distancing; Online Communities; Coronavirus; COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Employees; Working Conditions; Internet and the Web; Crisis Management
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Wesley W. Koo, and Xina Li. "Working (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers During the Coronavirus Shock." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-096, March 2020. (Revised April 2020.)
- November 2000
- Case
Model E: An Incubated Enterprise
By: Myra M. Hart
Provides a close-up view of an entrepreneurial search for opportunity, the role of incubators in the process, and the development of a viable business concept. Also depicts the changes made to the business concept as new people (with new expertise and experience) are... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Transformation; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Problems and Challenges; Internet and the Web
Hart, Myra M. "Model E: An Incubated Enterprise." Harvard Business School Case 801-257, November 2000.
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
performance-oriented. Moreover, success in professional sports is thought to be especially dependent on the talent of individual performers, since there is no special product technology or other long-lived advantages on which the team can... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
reach of providers, and building an information technology platform that supports value-based care. None of it comes easy, due to deep-seated, convoluted systems already in place. “We don't know what it really costs to care for any... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
empirical results provide strong support for the view that output prices are a key determinant of vertical integration. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49893 forthcoming Production and Operations Management View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
Summing Up How best is denial managed? Denial is endemic to management. It is a natural part of human nature, closely related to the survival instinct. It can be useful or disastrous. And it can be managed. That sums up at least many of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
in market outcomes." Rooting Marketing Strategy in Human Universals Global and local marketing efforts run at the opposite sides of the spectrum, and both "ignore crucial aspects of consumer behavior," argue HBS professors... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
Murphy, and Jorg L. Spenkuch Abstract—We develop a model of intergenerational resource transmission that emphasizes the link between cross-sectional inequality and intergenerational mobility. By drawing on first principles of human... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
level. Yet the corporation's senior management and human resource professionals resisted changing the scheme, pointing out the high quality of junior hires that the firm was making. It was not until 2009 that the firm's management agreed... View Details
- Profile
Terrance McGuire
such success stories as Akamai Technologies, which enabled the rapid movement of data over the Internet, and deCODE Genetics, a global leader in analyzing the human genome based in Iceland. Early on, Polaris decided to invest in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
different you are and how loved you are. We found industries where there are already clear winners that have pulled away from their competitors and gained the love of millennial consumers. (Online search, sports apparel, and mobile View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
discuss areas of interest ranging from opportunities in Asian markets, to managing work/life balance, to the impact of wireless technology on business strategy, to the achievements of African Americans in business. Highlights of some of... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
makers." One indicator that experimental research is hot: business is booming at Harvard Business School's Computer Lab for Experimental Research (CLER), which manages a pool of paid human participants and provides researchers with dozens... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Arjun Goyal
Trust Centre for Human Genetics, a new door opened for Arjun. “It was my first exposure to research,” he says. “It fascinated me that the test tube in my hand could hold a new cure or the next new therapy for controlling a disease.”... View Details
- Web
Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact PMNO Perspectives: Sarah Wong, Amnesty International Sarah Wong 06 Sep 2018 Sarah Wong, deputy... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
discussions that we’ve had” The case study, written by HBS’s Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration and head of the Technology and Operations Management unit, focuses on the data analysis used by the... View Details
- October 2010
- Teaching Note
From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for 610057. View Details
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
And Gerald Nanninga posed the interesting question: "Have we limited our potential by not only mislabeling potential partners as 'customers' but in mislabeling everyone in the entire supply chain?" What do you think? Original Article The Internet and related... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett