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18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

hard for multinationals to figure out the value of South African companies and affects their assessments of potential partners. Executives would do well to identify a country's power centers and figure out if there are checks and balances... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

26 May 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

studies to check on shifts in price elasticities of demand and price-attribute tradeoffs can usefully improve the profitability of pricing decisions at a time when cash is king. Keep an eye on the new consumer. No one has a perfect record... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

09 May 2018
Research & Ideas

A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

stores, schools, and other food-handling establishments, checking whether they adhere to public health regulations. The rules are strict. Food businesses where serious violations are found must clean up their acts quickly or risk being... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Service

26 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

FangXiaNuo Airbnb is revolutionizing the lodging market by keeping hotel rates in check and making additional rooms available in the country's hottest travel spots during peak periods when hotel rooms often sell out and rates skyrocket, a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel

26 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

error. With hand-written prescriptions, the error could easily make it all the way to the pharmacist, who would check on it with the physician. "That requires more time and resources to get to the right answer," Huckman says. Though... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

02 Oct 2019
What Do You Think?

What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?

openly carry firearms into its stores Ask Congress to increase background checks and consider an assault rifle ban The decision was expected to reduce Walmart’s share of ammunition sales in the United States from 20 percent to 6 percent.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

23 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?

unique case, with most of its companies owned by either the state or large families, and lacking checks and balances such as shareholder voting and class action lawsuits that, in the United States and Europe, can help control companies'... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

panelists explored the benefits and potential pitfalls of "venture philanthropy," the term for applying the techniques of venture capitalists in funding nonprofits and other socially focused organizations. The model differs from traditional grant-giving in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?

mail messages with them and checked Bain's "people finder" database for more contacts. Eventually she connected with nine partners and several managers who had developed growth strategies for financial services institutions. She... View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Nitin Nohria & Thomas Tierney; Consulting

10 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

at Alghanim Industries, one of the largest multibusiness companies in the Middle East. Hall previously served as EVP and then interim CEO of the company, and is now an adviser. "You will never succeed until you become a good team player, somebody who thinks about... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

Agency to institute such a program. The researchers examined the prevailing inspection system called On-Board Diagnostics II (OBD-II), which tests for excessive carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides, and also checks the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

system of internal checks and balances, Reinhardt told the group. His question: Why did BP decide to do that? What may have been Browne's rationale from a business-strategy point of view? On one hand, it might have tied into the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

this a scam?' For us, the most important thing we've done is build trust with the community," said James DeJulio, co-founder and chief product officer of Tongal. "Our marketing strategy was to pay people as fast as we possibly could. If you win $1,000 for your idea, we... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

scientists and engineers about their latest ideas; visiting production facilities and service centers to check on quality and customer support. That means far less time holding lengthy business reviews in their conference rooms or having... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

04 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

Medicare recipients who are admitted to a hospital end up back at the hospital in less than a month. Studies have shown that the frequency of those repeat stays could be reduced drastically if a doctor or nurse followed up with patients a week or two after View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

31 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 31

consumers with Bling Nation "tags"-microchip stickers that could be placed on any mobile phone device. The tags allowed users to make payments directly from their checking accounts and functioned similarly to a debit card. While... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Aug 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance

but their passive investment nature offers few checks on those companies’ executives. Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds As investors increasingly demand investment opportunities that match their social beliefs,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative, now 15 years old. Back in 1993, most people took a "spray and pray" approach to philanthropy—writing checks to charities and... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

06 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

This observation reinforces the fact that poor areas are always at more risk.” Most of the empirical literature has been cross-country. That's always a little bit of a problem because you're almost comparing apples and oranges. Here we had the same conflict and the... View Details