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- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
labor organizations should be in their death throes." The kind of thinking needed to meet these challenges for organized labor can be found, according to Walter Blass, in Japan. In his words, "I suggest you look at Japanese... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
and the demand-induced death spiral, which is brought about by a shift in sales mix from labor intensive to technology intensive imaging services. In addition, this case offers an opportunity to develop the class discussion in multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
same subject. Using a detailed dataset to track civil war casualties across space and over time, several patterns are documented. Conflict-related deaths are significantly higher in poorer districts and in geographical locations that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
terrible example for everyone to follow. The argument of domestic security simply does not hold in the data. No terrorists on US soil came from the country on the ban list. And there are so many measures that are proven to significantly reduce violent View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
Editor's note: With the death of Nelson Mandela, the words of the Roman poet Horace (65 - 27 BC) seem particularly appropriate in celebrating his life and achievements in freeing South Africa from the oppression of apartheid and leading... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
who are focused on their existing and most profitable markets and don't see the threat coming from below. Exhibit A: The death of Digital Equipment Corp., which, along with a string of other minicomputer firms, was taken down by the PC... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
gun policy. First, mass shootings evoke large policy responses. A single mass shooting leads to a 15% increase in the number of firearm bills introduced in a state in the year after a mass shooting. Second, mass shootings account for a small portion of all gun View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety change when employers adopt ISO 9001. We analyzed a matched sample of nearly 1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
Positive By: Goranson, Amelia, Ryan S. Ritter, Adam Waytz, Michael I. Norton, and Kurt Gray Abstract— In people’s imagination, dying seems dreadful; however, these perceptions may not reflect reality. In two studies, we compared the affective experience of people... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
minimizing the number of deaths versus refraining from murder; actively killing one person or passively watching five die. A twist examines whether a protagonist would choose to push a person heavy enough to stop the train into the... View Details
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
deaths (and only those individuals who lived in the state of Maryland), while the other focused primarily on diseased individuals and their families (who were also able to authorize donations upon death) living both in and out of state.... View Details
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
nonprofit entrepreneurial ventures have begun to address the need for cadavers. Generally, recruiters for these ventures target those for whom death is likely to be top of mind. "They'll set up a stand at a retirees' convention, go... View Details
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
As big box bookstores Barnes & Noble and Borders spread across the landscape in the 1990s, retail observers sounded the death knell for small, independent booksellers. But they had no idea of the onslaught that was coming. Amazon.com... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
knew the goal of the procedure, and making sure they had ample blood available. Since the checklist system has been deployed throughout several operating rooms, he said, there has been an average reduction in death of 47 percent.... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
sector of our economy is more advanced and productive than ever," concludes Hammond. "As Mark Twain might have put it, any reports of its impending death are greatly exaggerated." View Details
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
one reason: a death in the customer's family. A look at the number of waivers showed double-digit growth for the past three years. Either there was a death epidemic, or customers had figured out they could... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
age, there are more consumers than ever before suffering from chronic conditions. Most no longer see disease and the timing of their death as inevitable. Supported by the Internet, many actively seek out information to increase their odds... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
consultant at McKinsey and for Treasury Secretary Larry Summers for six years before joining Google at 32. When she and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began working together in 2007, Sandberg requested that Zuckerberg provide her with weekly feedback. After the tragic... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
HBS case study mentioned in Bower's book, Mulcahy drew counsel from a wide constituency of friends and acquaintances at the company to help set its future direction based on color printers and office services. Xerox has since rebounded from near View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
the world's most dominant retailers. Could Brandless change the way consumers bought the essential items that filled their pantries and medicine cabinets? Industry pundits had long predicted both the death of brands and the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman