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- 06 Jun 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?
China and India as competition but as profit centers to improve our short term return on investment. We need to reexamine that paradigm. . . . Sometimes the kids in the global community don't play fair. We don't have to take our ball... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
careers at the Harvard Business School, we discovered that the turnover of CIOs ran at around 30 to 40 percent per year. As a result of our research, we described the driving cause as the rapid change of IT through the operation of Moore's Law (IT View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
other policies to change relative prices can provide a countervailing force by subsidizing exports. But they increase the costs of imports, hurting both domestic consumption and export-oriented industries with high import content. More... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
their global competitiveness. Their approach was simple: They centralized huge scale and built all the Toyotas in Toyoda City. Or they produced all the Panasonic VCRs out of Osaka. These huge, centralized, scale-intensive operations drove their View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
salesperson handles those issues slightly differently. It’s hard to train for that because everyone has a different style and way of talking to customers.” Tackling reticence and resistance at a call center For the study, Stanton and his... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details
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By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
data. But higher costs for materials, manufacturing, shipping and trucking, and COVID safety measures, coupled with unprecedented competition for workers, are testing the endurance of retailers, especially those who rely heavily on cheap... View Details
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
pandemic) that challenge traditional economic theory centered on the so-called Phillips curve. It’s a simple economic model named after the economist who explored the positive relationship between low unemployment and higher wage rates.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
low-cost camera, but only after spending $2 billion trying to maximize its cameras' performance.10 The result of asymmetric battles often is the seemingly sudden end of a great firm. Cramming happens all the time. It is almost never successful. It View Details
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
Summing Up Business school relevance is an issue, judging from the predominance of responses to this month's column. The ways of increasing relevance were advanced, but the question of whether, in the current academic context, they can be implemented remains. Sources... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
Success in Social Enterprise," ending August 1. This two-year study was the second carried out by SEKN since it was founded in 2001 as a research partnership between HBS and leading business schools in Latin America and Spain. SEKN's research View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
company in January 2001. In the late 1990s, the company increased prices and lost many consumers to less expensive soup brands. Rather than bring prices back down, to maintain earnings Campbell cut costs by reducing advertising and laying... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
powerful who are resistant to change. Most people resist change, even when change might be in their interest, because change is threatening; it involves taking risks and experimenting, not knowing the outcome. This is hard for most people to do. It's even hard for us... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
Others identified factors accounting for too much focus. Yadeed Lobo said: "I think focus in organizations might have its roots in competitive strategy, intense focus on differentiation or cost consciousness." Edward Hare put it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
you have to make judgments about the extent and timing of the overlap depending on the circumstance. We are recommending a sequence that our research and experience show leads to more rapid and cost effective change. The important point... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
hedonic products to enhance their enjoyment of future consumption occasions. Current approaches to becoming expert center on cultivating an analytic mindset. In the present research the authors explore the benefit to enthusiasts of moving... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
resulting void at the center of the business school curriculum eventually caused business educators to take a second look at the discipline of economics. Economics, in the decades prior to World War II, had occupied a relatively weak... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
Ghemawat explained to the audience in his introduction, is one of the first "outputs" of the School's new Latin America Research Center (LARC). It was co-written by Ghemawat with LARC executive director Gustavo Herrero and... View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
January to August using court records through the federal Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) and the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) databases. PACER records bankruptcy filings within 24 hours and FJC keeps historical data.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne