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- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
want to capitalize on the first-movers' research and development. . . . Regardless of the type of complexity, whether product- or choice-related, the consumer is ultimately... View Details
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
under intense operational pressure is nearly impossible. In addition, the heavy burden of compliance with government regulations and internal corporate requirements is taking a toll on people, limiting their... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
scale very well, and it costs nearly as much to serve the ten millionth member as the millionth. Little networks like LiveJournal exist, but they don't grow into Facebook any more than beetles grow to the size View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
environment with no Xerox involvement and eventually became very valuable. In fact, their combined market capitalization is more than twice that of Xerox itself! Many organizations today are in the same... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
concerns occur whenever employees take into account the impact of their current actions on their future career. In essence, whenever the internal and/or external labor market observes a performance measure... View Details
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
public advisories, and it is regarded as more of a policeman than a partner by national governments. Its many dedicated scientists produce useful reports on the global state of public health, but the WHO's... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
Conference on November 7. Beaulieu's research focuses on many aspects of healthcare—including contracting, quality competition in managed care, and human capital management and performance measurement. At... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
South Africa over its attempt to reduce the cost of HIV drugs through parallel importation (buying pharmaceuticals in countries with lower prices and then importing them) and compulsory licensing (requiring... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
songs since its April 2003 debut. No wonder then that Steve Jobs was a recent BusinessWeek cover boy. But for longtime Apple watcher David Yoffie, the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
features racial violence and the quest for justice in the South. I also recommend Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream by Nicholas Lemann, which provides insight into... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
There were a whole lot of risk factors in the Great Recession that contributed to the collapse: It was availability of credit to subprime borrowers, the syndication of these... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
economic players. If you want to make sure that the small- to medium-sized enterprises that are the job engines of this economy are going to continue to grow, the government can't leave these firms with the impression that their View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
procedure performed or patient seen, without explicit rewards for the quality of the services rendered. This model translates internally into an incentive system that prioritizes patient volume over patient... View Details
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
resolve internal conflicts. In the Negotiations course, students not only analyze a number of case studies, but also participate in a series of negotiation exercises that give... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
make this diagnosis, one obviously has to make all kinds of assumptions, but sometimes the implied value gap is just enormous. The third reason companies restructure is to correct a large error in how the company is valued in the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
number of additional analyses we conducted confirm that our findings are most likely driven by changes in individuals’ opportunity costs of starting new ventures as a result... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
key components: It is organized into "integrated practice units" that focus on a particular disease, as well as the conditions associated with that disease. It measures outcome based on the patient's condition before, during, and after care. It measures View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
arise primarily from the wave of mergers and acquisitions that continue to alter the balance of power among media firms. The Walt Disney Company, for instance, in addition to owning the American Broadcasting... View Details
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
years or, more often, 10 years. Researchers can’t observe the potential immediate adjustment costs faced by native workers, such as temporarily lower wages or higher unemployment. It’s thus impossible to conclude that immigration has no... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
tolerated with others. The sales manager who brings in big bucks but acts in a hostile, domineering way with his team may be seen as the definition of success, yet letting “a brilliant jerk be a jerk” could View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman