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- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
109-070 Commercial Director Prado wonders how to leverage the loyalty card information to prepare the fall 2008 budget. The case discusses the value of subjective and objective information for profit-planning purposes. Spanish children's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
suggested that we "share only data, not information among employees/colleagues." Just where we draw the line on information was the subject of many comments. As Carl put it, "transparency protocols should follow a distinct... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
Do you see a marked difference in the types and degrees of ethical breaches occurring in the past, compared to more recently? Paine: Business ethics, of course, is as old as business itself, but formal academic study of the subject is, as... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
light of new external circumstances, data collected about the performance of the existing strategy, and new suggestions from employees throughout the organization. Being willing to welcome and subject... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
the subject in a new paper: Can Wages Buy Honesty? The Relationship between Relative Wages and Employee Theft. She cowrote the study, published in the September issue of the Journal of Accounting Research, with Clara Xiaoling Chen, an... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
of an airliner. Hundreds of hours may go into gathering and analyzing data to sort out exactly what happened and what can be learned. Compare this kind of analysis to what takes place in most organizations after a failure. As noted above,... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
funny—but remember your brand’s purpose Social media is a place where people appreciate humor—as long as it fits with the brand image, Avery says. Squatty Potty does an excellent job of engaging its audience with amusing and entertaining Facebook videos to sell a... View Details
- 04 Nov 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Do We Chase Stars?
performance," and reaches conclusions that might give pause to many who chase stars. Their subjects are top investment analysts (as identified annually by Institutional Investor magazine) and the organizations that develop and hire... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
enough data and information to do so. Plans, and the corresponding KPIs and other metrics that will empower your team to execute them, should be adjusted to address the company’s immediate needs and short-term goals, and communicated... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
data-id=_/AEj4uxRw9JpybYcAgQmw][/div] The computer even beat out the joke recommendations of close friends and spouses, a comedy of human errors that surprised the research team. They figured people would have a better handle on something as View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
empirical analysis to be more than sketched in this paper. It is also a field that has not yet taken management as a central subject of empirical study. We shall therefore deal only with some of the central problems of the structure of... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
a context apart from the complexity and sensitivity of their own company; this allows executives to engage in important discussions about, for example, risk trade-offs and relationships with peers, subjects that might be too sensitive in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
bankruptcy losses (moral hazard) and are subject to a regulatory capital requirement. In contrast, shadow bank liabilities are subject to runs and credit risk and thus typically less liquid compared to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
scanner panel data from a single California location of a major grocery chain, and completely controlling for consumer heterogeneity, we demonstrate that bringing your own bags simultaneously increases purchases of environmentally... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
created the world, he made data only available about the past. As teachers at HBS, we're trained to nail students to the wall if they ever make an assertion in class discussion that is not backed up with View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
Leadership As a subject of scholarly inquiry, leadership-and who leaders are, what makes them tick, how they affect others-has been neglected for decades. The Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Harvard Business School's... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
but not nearly as dramatic as a computer produced in 2000, which runs 10 million times faster than a 1960s' computer. Carr's graph on information technology stands as a subject lesson for Darrell Huff's well-known book How to Lie with... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
"Excess of everything is bad it always relates to the matter in point (for example) getting big data about our customers and focusing too deeply on it will lead to not noticing other important facets However, while finalizing a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 May 2022
- What Do You Think?
Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?
The primary pedagogical rap on it is that it is an inefficient way to teach some things. This is particularly true, the argument goes, if concepts or quantitative techniques are the subject of the day. Why not instead employ an expert to... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
including proprietary data that has never been shared with scholars before and can lead to novel lines of inquiry.” Harvard Business School’s Michael Toffel. “This is my soapbox message to academics: be more relevant,” he says. Toffel,... View Details