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- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
where the village head was a woman, were much likely to say the police acted efficiently and the case was solved," says Iyer. In another survey that looked at people's perceptions of the police, respondents said they believed that... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
exclude customers without Internet access or a bank account. That strikes me as a relatively small investment to make for a relatively large number of individuals. Tufano suggests a few adjustments to "reinvent" the savings bond program, such as allowing... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
managers: "Can we teach [the people we serve] the importance of being self-sufficient while not being self-sufficient ourselves?" Bread Means Business The bakery at Boston's Haley House is a case View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Charitable Trust did a study of both pension and OPEB shortfalls in the 30 largest cities in the United States. The unfunded pension deficits for these cities amounted to $99 billion, while the unfunded retiree healthcare benefits totaled... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
[ought to] have a clearly defined set of purposes or goals which keeps it moving in a deliberately chosen direction and prevents its drifting in undesired directions" (emphasis added). As shown in the case of Alfred Sloan at General... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
to $2 million to hospitals serving Medicare patients that adopted electronic medical records (EMRs). Quelch and HBS research associate Margaret L. Rodriguez released a case study in April about one... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
crowdfunding will shake up the world of traditional VC financing. One venture capitalist Nanda interviewed for a case study expressed fears that it might lead to a kind of arms race among investors. "A... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
manage it, and give it direction? That's what our new book, From Resource Allocation to Strategy, is about. People have studied the process in various ways, first to understand how it works and then to understand how it breaks down; and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
lead to dysfunctional group dynamics) and the perspectives brought to the table by board leaders and director. Finally, the benefits of two opposing leadership structures are debated: one chapter argues for electing a chairman who is separate from the CEO, while... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
should, nor do we have many cases about business leaders operating in that high-conflict, low-authority domain." Giving students a broader perspective outside the HBS classroom is another possibility, such as pairing B-school students... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
sounding-board for their ideas. "With the case study method, the delivery is in the classroom," says Mayo. "With FIELD, 80 percent of the success is in the design of the individual sessions... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Massachusetts, there has been considerable controversy regarding the building of wind turbines on Cape Cod—a situation I describe in a case study I've written. But no matter what happens there, only about... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
of the NFL coaching carousel over the last few decades? Why did coaches succeed or fail in a league that some scholars have referred to as a natural laboratory for studying performance? When and why did previously successful coaches lose... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
attributes such shortcomings to a prevailing "sense of entitlement" that's fostered in part by the absence of competitors. "You could make a good case that the very promise of job security is the first step in destroying... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
industry leaders? How competitive are existing, well-capitalized companies when they compete against user-manufacturers? Although there have been a number of studies on user innovation, little if any work has been done on the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
suggests that it could grow even more quickly—that it could join the small number of nations achieving annual double-digit increases in real GDP. Liberia, Werker says, "could be the perfect storm for very fast growth." The other question his View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
are paving their own way," Kraus says. "But even if you're not an entrepreneur, you can still harness that ability to pave your own way by creating a plan and reassessing when bad luck shows up." Finding Your 'flow' Students learn about reinventing themselves from... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
"The Changing Structure of the Global Wine Industry," won the Best Paper award at the 2003 European Applied Business Research Conference. Roberto recently shared his thoughts on wine for HBS Working Knowledge in an e-mail Q&A. Manda Salls: Why did you... View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
them powerful competitors in the new marketplaces, but institutionally they need to be nimble and aggressively study the appeal of the new entrants and develop new capabilities. The Role Of Regulation Although the online small business... View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
the question is as important as the answer," Thomke says. When Apple Buys Your Company In teaching a case study about Apple, Thomke asks a thought-provoking question to conclude the discussion: Imagine that... View Details