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- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
center of much discussion. The advice most often provided to managers is to weave the brand into the most potent popular culture trends. Recently, consultants and ad agencies began emphasizing the reverse: recommending that managers seek... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
defense internally and in the public spotlight. Along with reports of players' pharmacological and off-field transgressions (behaviors also found in other professional sports leagues), the NFL has had to address new medical research into... View Details
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
Government, and International Economy Unit and is affiliated with the Center for Economic Policy Research and the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration. He studies the... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
Research Center lab. When it didn't see the results it sought, Xerox terminated further funding for projects that we know today as Ethernet (by 3Com) and PostScript (by Adobe). These projects were evaluated... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
on GE Security’s payroll plus hundreds more in GE’s corporate research centers in Niskayuna, New York; Bangalore; Shanghai; and Munich — to come up with a steady flow of innovations. Hearing success stories... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- News
HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship
included the opening of the Japanese Research Center in 2002 and the annual Independent Field Course that launched in 2011. Amano, a marketing professor, gave a lecture entitled “Gaming or Gambling? An... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
to the School's permanent endowment. In addition, in a period when U.S. corporations were the center of business schools' attention, Fouraker saw the importance of an international outlook, encouraging View Details
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
parasites, or chemicals to consumers. In 2010, 582 million cases of 22 different foodborne diseases resulted in 351,000 deaths worldwide, with salmonella, E.coli, and norovirus resulting in the greatest number of fatalities, according to a September 2015 case Quelch... View Details
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Partnering with climate scientists. The investment management firm Wellington Management has partnered with climate scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) to understand how and where climate... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Working Papers An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors: Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
warning that antibiotic resistance presents one of the greatest threats to health, food security, and development worldwide. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the United States at least 2... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
block of apartments overlooking the Nile River. She graduated from Cairo University in 2006 with a degree in economics, followed by a master's in environment and development at the London School of Economics. After stints as a researcher... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
spend more than $800 billion annually on those efforts. Sales compensation plans are at the center of all this activity, the primary tool managers use to motivate and incentivize salespeople. Sales reps feed on two forms of compensation:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
even this is a relatively small slice of the country. More than 1.5 million Americans have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. As I am writing this, the official military fatality count is approaching 4,000. But a survey last year by The Pew View Details
Keywords: Government
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
Abstract This book presents new research on the historical impact of globalization on Argentina and Chile. The authors focus on the role of entrepreneurs and firms. The Role of Venture Capitalists in the Acquisition of Private Companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Art Nature Business
her. Swept up by hurricane-like forces—and surrounded by clippings of articles on climate change, the environment, and extreme weather—the figure at the center can be read as a casualty of inaction on climate change. KEVIN COOLEY Driggs ,... View Details
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
and health care. For example, all aspects of travel (e.g. airports, flights, hotels, car hire, rebooking, monitoring payments, etc.) can be integrated into a single stream of activity that not only centers on individual support, but that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
In 2009, a stroke victim at a Los Angeles medical center started losing his hair following a CT brain perfusion scan. After some confusion, doctors determined he had been subject to a radiation overdose—a serious accident that might lead... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
observations. Although healthcare as a whole still suffers from the elephant problem, it's suffering less all the time—at least where science is concerned—thanks to remarkable and ever-faster scientific advances. Chief among the advances is genomic View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Prosocial Identity Reduces Prosocial Behavior Authors:Adam M. Grant, Andrew Molinsky, Joshua D. Margolis, Melissa Kamin, and William Schiano Periodical:Journal of Applied Social Psychology 39, no. 2 (2009): 319-349 Abstract Considerable View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace