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16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

become known as "Silicon Valley" unique? Will Silicon Valley remain a vibrant community of technological innovation and economic growth, or will it decline like other previously thriving U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

providing access to being a leader and exercising leadership effectively (in short, a technology for reliably creating leaders). Our research program involves not only discovering the technology, but also creating a course that would be... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

focused on building a strong regional presence in Latin America. Even if Telefónica has to sell its assets, or itself, its regional position will command a high price. Keep Your Eye on the Ball. A big deal takes lots of time and consumes lots of managerial attention.... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

of the ways in which ideas, images, and other forms of organizational content pass between leaders and employees, or from one employee (or group of employees) to another. It occupies roughly the same space that "corporate communication"... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

dropping out, value the benefits associated with competing in the second round more than influencing its outcome. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54540 forthcoming Administrative Science Quarterly View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

discussions that we’ve had” The case study, written by HBS’s Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration and head of the Technology and Operations Management unit, focuses on the data analysis used by the... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports

03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

leadership, governance, innovation management, the networking of organizations, and social responsibility—as the "single most important development(s) in the area of management in the just-ended decade of the new century." Developments in information View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

27 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Customer Loyalty Programs That Work

and other retailers are experimenting with offering rewards program members discounts on gasoline, for instance. And Stop & Shop recently rolled out Scan It! Mobile, an app that turns a customer's iPhone into a mobile scanner and... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Retail

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

already." Such is the pace of business development that "Starting New Ventures" has spawned its own spin-off this year, a separate course focused on launching technology ventures. That has let Hart's class focus more on... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

administrative background for the other two cases. This case deals with the problems facing the head of a start-up division responsible for developing and bringing to market a new product based on technology... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Oct 2012
What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

economy. The argument presumably extends as well to other countries with developed economies. Pisano and Shih maintain that their proposals are intended to encourage the regeneration of the "industrial commons" the "R&D... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5

likelihood that non-compliant practices are detected, and the likelihood that detected violations are punished. However, the type of regulatory regime-compliance-based or "pay-to-pollute"-and three important cost thresholds also drive firm response: i) the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

which other online upstarts such as Amazon.com changed retail and Square changed the small business payments business. A few factors account for the rapid growth of the entrants. First, institutional debt and equity investors have been... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

so that it would act in the national interest. Exporting began to be seen as a route to development, and foreign firms offered both the technology and access to markets that might make exports possible. Many state-owned firms—some of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

end users would agree: Their distribution channels are outdated and unwieldy, serving neither customers nor channel partners as well as they should. In a few cases, distribution channels are streamlined and satisfying for all participants. In some cases, View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

30 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

paper, Toffel says. Other questions to answer include: What types of responses to incidents are most effective? When should behavioral corrections be implemented? When should technological corrections be... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

should be done? Some thought that, quite simply, bad things happen on occasion and that if governments didn't get in the way too much, things would sort themselves out. Others were worried that governments would intervene with populist... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

and other distributions as opposed to purely growth. What, if anything, could Woolf and other farmers do to influence the outcome? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510033-PDF-ENG... View Details