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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
S. Fader, Sunil Gupta, Bruce Hardie, Aurelie Lemmens, Barak Libai, David T. Neal, Foster Provost, and Rom Schrift Abstract—In today’s turbulent business environment, customer retention presents a significant challenge for many service companies. Academics have View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
all have to be in alignment." Along with Russell A. Eisenstat, an independent consultant and former HBS faculty member, Beer has developed a process called Organizational Fitness Profiling, which helps a CEO or business unit general... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
professor Alan MacCormack took on the question of future "form factors" at the 2005 Cyberposium conference at HBS on January 29th. The general consensus: It's more important for users to be able to easily move digital... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
information while packaging that information for vendors who need it. "A sea change is upon us," say the authors. "Those managers who ignore the potential may find themselves managing without access to customer information." A byproduct of field View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
had a "system" of hiring MBAs in cohorts of ten to fifteen. These young MBAs were generally placed into "assistant to" positions (assisting the head of a division, for example) for a couple of years to learn the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
convictions of the Valley's remarkable innovators, who created not just a company but an industry, still echo through the community. Bill Hewlett and David Packard influenced the older generation directly; many of them were early... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
directors. This can serve to cut down on the clubby board atmosphere. Outside recruitment has grown more common in recent years, in part because of improved governance and in part because the usual playing field of director candidates has begun to thin out organically.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
variable labor supply, social security benefits and portfolio choice over safe bonds and risky equities. Our analysis reinforces prior findings that equities are the preferred asset for young households, with the optimal share of equities View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
way a centralized clearinghouse can fix them, and the effects on market outcomes. In the conclusion we discuss aspects of the experience of the gastroenterology labor market that seem to generalize fairly widely. Purchase the paper from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
Barometer found. Another 30 percent would not offer help to those they disagree with if needed. Flip that data and you may see it differently: eight in 10 people with strongly held views would be willing to work with someone they disagree... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
justifying the indulgent purchase and reducing indulgence guilt. We demonstrate that consumers tend to inflate the value, and usage frequency, of utilitarian features when they are attached to hedonic luxuries. Using a mixed-method approach, combining archival View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024
are the generous gifts from its alumni and friends. Each year, the revenue and expenses that flow through the School’s income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement tell a unique story. The following pages discuss the financial... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
there is actually no systematic evidence on this subject. Given that dearth of evidence, I adopted the research strategy of picking an interesting sector and zooming in on a particularly interesting case within it, and then generalizing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
projects, for example, don’t generate enough water bill revenue to pay for themselves. But, rather than go without water for lack of current funds or skills, municipalities like Algiers, Algeria, have contracted for water with GE on an... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
firms jump on the new technology bandwagon to the coming of rules and governance. Would you elaborate on that? Spar: Since Professor Chandler has mentioned RCA, let me use that as an example. In 1926, along with General Electric and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
mission to develop great general managers by capitalizing on the case method. In recent years, the School has added myriad initiatives that appear to celebrate complexity rather than strategic simplicity. Please draw these initiatives... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
tasks and finding the appropriate platforms for execution. In that sense, the tasks were defined for data scientists and algorithm developers who do not necessarily have that domain knowledge, but possess the skills necessary for... View Details
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
interviews to replace a worker the company has a huge amount of data on from personnel files, performance evaluations, etc. When they replace the worker who leaves because of caregiving conflicts, they incur the direct costs, but they... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
we measure–and invest in–those co-benefits; and the key business opportunities, including data and technology, looking through the lens of climate risk in infrastructure, real estate, buildings and public health. Why Climate Adaptation?... View Details