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- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
at the firm for the long term (58 percent versus 40 percent) and were more likely to perceive that they were providing significant value to their clients (95 percent versus 84 percent). BCG clients reported a range of experiences with PTO... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
companies have a sense of mission enabling them to deliver what their customers want in a way that is significantly better than the competition. As a formula for the future, it brings together the necessity of financial success... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
light-duty vehicles, the first to earn UL 9741 certification in North America, the first to earn OEM approval for battery health, and the first to earn revenue for fleet customers from utilities. We are hoping that the IRA helps us to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
should have for the broad HBS community. Speaking, for example, about plans to link alumni on a lifetime basis to the HBS network, Clark declared, "What I hope we can do is create a deeper, richer, and more valuable pattern of connection... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
any, difference will the “New Silk Road” make in the global educational landscape? Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55549 Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 13 Platform Systems vs. Step Processes—The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
can harness volunteer leadership for transformative change; and how professionals can sustain core values in the midst of daily routine. The diverse array of writers with international reputations in their fields makes it the only book of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
created nearly one-third of the total market value of all public companies in the United States.” Flight to Quality Over its nearly sixty-year history, the venture-capital industry had experienced several boom-and-bust cycles, but nothing... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
modified to incorporate quasi-hyperbolic preferences. For reasons of political economy or aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over-accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
activity. When our measure is high, safe bonds fall in value and risky assets rally, forecasting a boom in investment. Risk appetite is closely linked to investors’ expectations of future risk and rises following positive macroeconomic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
multimillion-dollar enterprise—and wealth for all of them beyond their wildest dreams. Of particular note is the context for better judgment that LaMagna built around him: the cultural values and sense of mutual accountability within this... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
force of valued managers, when asked by senior management to conduct and analyze a worldwide employee survey, refused to do so. They simply did not want to be associated with what they perceived would be yet another useless exercise. At... View Details
- Profile
Michael Maples
will focus less on layers of management hierarchy and coordination and more on creating networks of access where customers as well as loosely-connected providers of their labor are a key part of the network. “So you won’t need the... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
rather than creating the best content. Success comes not from making the "best" content, but from recognizing how content facilitates user connections; it comes not from protecting the value of content at all costs, but from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
risk because I was still a student," he says. Initially, EyeView's model was devoted to helping businesses create and post online video content. About a year later, the company shifted its focus to creating customized videos that target... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
serve significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion is likely to compromise the headquarters' ability to control its local managers' behavior and satisfy the divergent needs of different types of customers. In this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
it. You've considered simply waiting for something more definitive—but who knows when that will come? Now your hand has been forced. If one employee has heard rumblings, so have others—maybe customers have heard them, too. Any executive... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
knowledge of how to get the product out there. Distributing refrigerated products is not an easy business. People could probably come pretty close to copying our re-cipes, but to actually do the marketing and distribution, manage shelf lives, get View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
where she helps strengthen the school's ties to management consulting firms. Although she is enjoying her new role and feels "generally contented and at times euphoric," the decision to leave the mainstream workforce was difficult. "Work was what I was good at, what I... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where the incumbent may imitate the entrant's business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
million on energy conservation projects, cutting generation demand by 116 megawatts and saving 194,300 megawatt-hours of electricity, compared with the forecasts. The net value of the energy saved was $90 million, of which New England... View Details