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- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
psychological mechanism whereby price format determines how many product attributes are actively processed at the time of valuation. Three studies support the hypothesis that price partitioning acts as an incentive to process multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
in multiple innovations, including smartphones, search, online purchasing, and social media. Lead director John Thompson led the board committee that chose insider Satya Nadella as its next CEO. Nadella completely changed Microsoft’s... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
you should approach a product launch as an organizational process, and start with the buyers, not the product.” The good news is that there are now a multiplicity of ways for new companies to contact customers through the web, social... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
problem of accumulating space debris in Earth’s orbit. Both cases generated exceptional enthusiasm when taught at HBS for the first time this spring. And Weinzierl and Acocella have multiple additional space cases in the pipeline. In... View Details
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
key battleground states where candidates typically concentrate their campaign resources. "Marketing is very crucial in an election," Chung says. Lessons For Business Readers Chung says the paper may be the first to analyze the effects of View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
Sherman (@RSherman_25) March 29, 2014 Elberse asked about how Twitter has influenced the players' associations with in philanthropic organizations, noting Fitzgerald's involvement in breast cancer awareness, multiple humanitarian trips to... View Details
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim offer an introduction to the best methods for consuming data. In this excerpt, Davenport and Kim discuss multiple ways to tell a story with data, "the best way to communicate results to nonanalytical... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
ordinary drill bits, severely limited time, and the potentially immobilizing fear that plagued the buried miners. Could the trapped miners and rescue workers mobilize before air and resources were depleted? The case describes the ensuing efforts that draw the resources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
article provides conceptual foundations for analyzing organizations comprising multiple legally autonomous entities, which we call meta-organizations. We assess the antecedents of the emergence of such collectives and the design choices... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
into their products and services, from sources (e.g., labor conditions in paper plants where company stationery is manufactured) to applications and ultimate fate (e.g., how used computers are disposed of). Whether this is called acknowledgment of View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 07 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
globalization. We're now able to build intellectual capital and facilitate the School's global research across multiple sites all over the world. In the area of entrepreneurship, we've established a strong curriculum and faculty. Looking... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
should enable a company to enjoy a higher valuation and earnings multiple because investors will see the future earnings stream as more sustainable and less risky. View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
employers who offered a too-generous plan? Since long-term effects of the disease are measured in decades, it is complicated to figure out a business case for diabetes, said one alumnus. Participants said that since many people with diabetes have View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
the big Internet wins of the late 1990s, you may not know a thing about early-stage investing. By the same token, if you had 10 failures in multiple industries, you might not know anything either. But you will if you keep paying... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
application of that work to the company's own products." Now a provider to multiple vendors, Big Blue has become eager to be part of the solution to a problem rather than determined to be the only solution. Long a leading... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
color from 30% to 9%. Use a variety of forecasting approaches. Most companies we surveyed limit themselves to just one type of forecasting. Generally, a single forecast for each item is generated by the buyer or by a small group from merchandising. But generating View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
permitted by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is realigning media ownership. Among other changes, the Federal Communications Commission recently relaxed restrictions on ownership of multiple television stations in larger markets, paving... View Details
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
caregiving responsibilities, as well as workers in countries with strict hourly limits, Choudhury says. Scheduling talks in multiple time zones During real-time, or synchronous, communication—including in-person meetings, video... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
the period from 1996 to 2005 to test the hypothesized relationships. How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power and Timing in Redundant Communication Authors:P.M. Leonardi, T.B. Neeley, and E.M. Gerber... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
given this increases a project's cost and introduces additional technical risk. It is better for a program manager to coordinate the development and validation of these core infrastructural technologies, making sure that they fulfill the requirements for View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne