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- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
as it is being employed to unite dispersed functional or geographic groups within a firm. While automatic process execution continues to be valuable for these networks, the greater goal of integration often appears to be better and faster... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy, published by Prentice Hall. Q: What's the context for the development of this book? Simons: My colleagues and I in the School's Accounting and Control Unit have spent a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
Do companies with reputations for acting in socially responsible ways receive public goodwill when unpleasant news hits? The question of how much (or even if) corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies benefit companies beyond the... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50453 November 2, 2015 Harvard Business Review The Best Ways to Hire Salespeople By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Daniel Weinfurter Abstract—Companies typically spend more on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
The coronavirus crisis forced health care providers to mobilize in ways few could have predicted six months ago, revealing not only the system’s weaknesses but its profound ingenuity. Within weeks, providers worldwide set up drive-through... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
the world about the problems they thought might constitute material threats to the sustainability of market capitalism. As part of Harvard Business School's centennial celebration a few years ago, we convened groups of business leaders in Europe, Asia, Latin America,... View Details
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
the workforce. Companies also pay a price, both directly and indirectly, often in ways they don’t fully understand, the report found. The Gazette spoke with its author Joseph B. Fuller, professor of management practice and co-chair of the... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
for rigorous accounting research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50473 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Hiding Personal Information Reveals the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
formal models and theory can account for important aspects of software design evolution in large-scale systems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-081.pdf From Outsourcing to Global Collaboration: New Ways to Build... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
"Obamacare"—enjoyed a decidedly lackluster launch. Despite there being 35 million uninsured people in the United States, only 8 million signed up for insurance on the exchange. True, another 5 million people signed up on their... View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
widespread secrecy is understandably difficult, since by their very nature, secret inventions are hard to find. Recently, a researcher at Harvard Business School found a way to study this issue—by examining patent applications the US... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
panic selling caused an unprecedented early shutdown of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Horie, who denies wrongdoing, was arrested on January 23. What went wrong at Livedoor, and what are we to learn from its undoing? Robin Greenwood, an assistant professor in the Finance... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
in health and education, including founding Koç University in 1992, now one of the most prestigious universities in the country. Silverthorne: In what ways is Turkish business history distinctive and in what View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
said. “I really wish the doctor would have just said, ‘Here is what we’re doing.’” To find out if other players would feel the same way, the researchers surveyed 74 baseball pitchers from universities in the United States and found that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
report their preliminary findings in their working paper BYOB: How Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags Leads to Treating Yourself, and the Environment. (The collaborative effort addresses each of their particular interests. Karmarkar, an assistant professor and... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
Struggle is an experience we instinctively avoid, looking for any way to minimize the hard work and pain involved in getting what we want. And yet—nearly every book we read and movie we watch involves someone struggling mightily to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
customer, there is no value. Instead of using pricing in a way that turns customers into adversaries, companies can use it to enlarge the pie. That means viewing customers as partners in value creation-a collaboration that increases... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
employers on this issue. Much of my research is about the impact of workplace transparency (the observability of employee activities, routines, behaviors, output, and/or performance) on employee productivity and collaboration. So these questions interested me, as did... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
of sugary drinks. Four well-powered, incentive-compatible experiments evaluate two possible ways in which firms might comply with such a policy: bundles (i.e., dividing the contents of oversized cups into two regulation-sized cups) and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
themes are being produced. Cheng Gao: From a graduate student perspective, the interviews are a terrific way to gain a bottom-up insight on how business is conducted in emerging markets. Challenges one reads about in textbooks become... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne