Big Line Or Big Clique Conjecture - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Mar 2003
What Do You Think?

Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?

same accounting firm, suggest hiring someone else, even though accountants for both clients insist that proper barriers are maintained within their firm. A search for another Big Four accounting firm is launched by Acme. But upon closer... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Accounting; Financial Services

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

names: Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, and many others. All that said, it is simply irresponsible for us to tell students, managers, investors, or inventors to just go out and be entrepreneurial. As we are well aware,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

this year, of the millions of cars being churned out in factories all around the world, one of them, unknown and unremarked, will roll off an assembly line and take its place in history. Basking under the hot lights of a showroom, View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

20 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts

the first or worst financial challenge the technology giant has faced. In 1997, the company suffered a near-death experience that caused it to completely reimagine itself. The result was a new line of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

07 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

the responsibility elsewhere so they have more time for their passions, whether that’s their careers, hobbies, or travel. Despite the big differences in operations, the investment strategy Wealthfront... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

Editor's note. Organizations are living, growing, learning things, but this depth of experience and knowledge can be difficult to tap into. The secret, according to the authors of Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

29 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?

accommodating in finding a compromise that does not look like punishment but may encourage others to seek their own deal. This is a big wake-up call for Europe. It is clear that it must reboot. There are many places to find closer... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

expect Republicans in the House and Senate to resist any populist measures that threaten the ability of corporations to compete globally and hurt the US economy in the long run. Let’s talk about the number 20,000. Is that a meaningful number View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

18 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

have built national or global organizations that have achieved social impact. This focus on success stories has led to a skewed view of social entrepreneurship as nothing more or less than a field of huge,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Whence IT Value?

big difference now? After all, IT has been inside most organizations, especially big ones, for well over a generation. And while it is true that IT investments have been skyrocketing recently, they've been... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

10 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!

also worries that a company is at risk if sales depend too much on one or two megabrands that could run into lawsuits from generic competitors or regulatory challenges. On the other hand, the president of... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation; Pharmaceutical

09 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

enormous strain on the 1.2 billion people living on a dollar a day or less. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and relief agencies are on the front lines of this global crisis, distributing food and other... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

A New Model for Business: The Museum

environment. It sets the rules." Apple, meanwhile, has made an art form out of curation, not only by limiting its product line but also by providing quick, clear explanations--starting with the way the company names its products.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

than others. “Every company today needs to think of themselves as a tech company,” says Andy Wu, the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Whether you’re in retailing or... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

11 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections

Companies spend significant sums to acquire customers. Once hooked, marketers protect those investments by attempting to keep patrons happy, engaged, and most of all, loyal. Reducing customer attrition, or "churn" in marketing parlance,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Service

29 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

and lawsuits—the cases against Uber being just the most visible. As the law stands, state officials deciding these cases face a purely binary choice: workers are either employees or independent contractors, with no in-between. That’s a... View Details

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Transportation; Web Services

12 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch

ad, followed by a longer period of joy, in order to get the most 'attention' bang for the buck," Teixeira says. This finding flies in the face of focus groups of the past, which found that viewers responded most positively to ads that had a View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

Control and Prevention—using big data, such as cellular data, credit card usage information, and surveillance camera footage—traced the infected person’s steps to locate everyone that he or she had come into... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies (revised) Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic complements View Details