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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
both the firm and their own energy. Richard Tedlow will present his observations of "why bad things happen to good companies," focusing on the 1982 and 1986 Tylenol crises. Michael Porter will continue to address the latest View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
reflect on the material and ideas discussed in class and apply it to their own situations. This is a rich opportunity for sharing information in an informal atmosphere in which participants can build relationships with each other that... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
sales industry was created using this idea as a cornerstone of its business strategy. In this paper we identify and investigate a new reason why frequent assortment rotations can be valuable to a retailer, particularly for products where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
distribution will fundamentally change the number and variety of products that consumers purchase. However, there is sharp disagreement about what type of change will occur. Proponents of the "long tail" idea argue that a sharp... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
the idea of a radical space reduction strikes him. The case follows Lachman, working closely with Country HR Manager Jane Lewis, from idea inception to the eve of the company-wide transition to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
market as a whole experienced high returns relative to Treasury bills. In the spirit of Fischer Black’s 1993 article “Beta and Return,” published in this journal, the author takes seriously the idea that this evidence reflects a risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
HBS Working Knowledge recently celebrated its tenth birthday, and we mark the occasion by looking back and looking forward. We've asked HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and a number of faculty to both remark on what they view as the most significant business management View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
While some find the idea of exchanging digital tokens puzzling, in many ways it’s nothing new—through the same type of technology that powers cryptocurrency, NFTs provide a sort of “digital deed” that we can use to establish ownership of... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
what you have done, it is explicit. Tacit knowledge, on the other hand, is trickier. It is know-how that is carried around in the heads of people that hasn’t necessarily been written down, and combines skills, prior experiences, and ideas... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
Review 85, no. 6 (June 2007) Abstract This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Why do... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
investment treaties within the broader debate on the convergence of corporate governance protections. As such, several cases have provided the foundation for academic papers that have extended and reinforced the ideas from the cases.... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
essentially looking for the kind of people who would have wanted to sign on with Columbus for his first voyage west. Sahlman: When I first proposed to teach a course in Entrepreneurial Finance, I was told it was the stupidest idea in the... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
Administration in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. “No one had relationships with the parliamentarians—he built his business in part around this opportunity.” “No one had relationships with the parliamentarians—he built his business in part around this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
including IBM, Procter & Gamble, Banco Real, Omrom, and Cemex. "I could have included Cisco, Avon products, Novartis, Toyota, and others," she says in her Harvard Business School office on a recent rainy afternoon. We asked Kanter to expand on the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
organizational boundaries and organizational designs. We suggest that when critical tasks can be modularized and when problem-solving knowledge is widely distributed and available, open innovation complements traditional innovation logics. We induce these View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
data and establish a process for keeping that front-line information flowing and timely. Otherwise, “customer focus” will remain a perennial slogan, not an organizational reality. Oversight over this activity is as important as it is in the capital budgeting process,... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
among all the cases I’ve written and one of the all-time best sellers at HBS. It’s about strategic planning at a hospital that does one thing, fixing inguinal hernias. It illustrates a set of ideas that could be presented in less time by... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
Working Papers Patent Publication and the Market for Ideas By: Hegde, Deepak, and Hong Luo Abstract—In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure-through patent publication-on the market for ideas. We do so by analyzing the... View Details
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
customize classes so that students received the lessons they needed without reviewing material they already knew? That is the idea behind School of One, an approach to learning piloted by New York City Department of Education, which... View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
systems, compliance systems. [Markets] do not punish with sufficient speed and force to eliminate the incentive for misconduct. Q: So the problem was making the maximization of shareholder wealth the primary goal? A: The idea of... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update