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19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

induced to behave rationally. Many other disciplines, including economics, finance, and marketing, have successfully incorporated departures from this rationality assumption into their models and theories. In this paper, we argue that operations View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

you decide to focus your research on the grocery retail business? Rajiv Lal: The programs I see most often are the simple programs where you get a card, and use the card to get promotions. You see these in all types of retail business:... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

competing platforms are better for consumers than a single aggregate platform. About the Author Martha Lagace is a writer based in Boston. [Image: nimis69] Related Reading Is Business Management a Profession? LEED-ing by Example Why... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

02 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

“Historically, when the government tries to set limits it doesn't work very well.” Say on pay has been a research focus of HBS assistant professor Fabrizio Ferri, who started his career at Stern Stewart & Co specializing in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

dramatically since several large public institutions (for instance, the California Public Employees Retirement System and the University of Texas Investment Management Company) have released onto the Internet the returns from the funds in... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

Janisse Publication:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2012). Abstract We examine the internal supply chains at two service organizations to discover the source of disruptions that erode employees' efficiency. Through... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

for both brick-and-mortar and online retailers. We focus on product categories where consumers may purchase multiple products during a season and investigate a new reason why frequent assortment rotations can be valuable to a retailer.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

organizations: Businesses focus on commerce, while charities engage in activities that support social welfare. Increasingly, however, founders of social ventures interested in improving society are pursuing hybrid business models, which... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

cover in one of the chapters in the book. A network approach requires leaders to focus not only on management challenges and opportunities at an organizational level, but also more broadly on how to mobilize... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

We know the symptoms all too well. We wait months to see a doctor. Office visits end, it seems, just moments after they begin. Managed care firms hold sway over doctors' treatment plans, and health insurance premiums are heading for the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

increases," write the authors of How to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business, published in the Winter 2013 issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review. “Ineffective opportunity management... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

the one hand, more measures provide more dials to turn to get the manager to take actions consistent with the firm's best interests. On the other hand, more public information imposes more risk on the View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

04 Mar 2015
What Do You Think?

Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

suggest that no one should hold their breath waiting for a hands-off approach to work. But now a recent announcement by Walmart's management to raise minimum and average wages paid by the company has changed the tenor of the conversation... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

Kazuo (Kaz) Hirai becomes CEO and successfully transforms Sony, including a relentless focus on differentiation through "wow" products instead of chasing scale. How should he organize and manage... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

PUBLISHED PAPERS forthcoming Advances in Strategic Management Strategy Beyond Markets By: Figueiredo, John de, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Rick Vanden Bergh, eds. Abstract—Since the early 1990s, strategy beyond markets has... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/jlerner/private-equity-jobs-and-productivity-8-march-2014-with-ables-and-figures-clean.pdf August 2013 Strategic Management Journal The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

Christopher J. Malloy, along with University of Chicago colleague Andrea Frazzini, investigated the ties between more than 1,800 sell-side analysts and the management of public firms, and the subsequent performance of stock... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

business." "The statistics are correct," said Raj Kapoor (HBS MBA '96), managing director at Mayfield, a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. "It's an extremely hit-driven business that's becoming more... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

families. As Professor of Management Practice and co-head of the HBS Entrepreneurial and Service Management unit, Myra Hart has been particularly interested in women in business. Since joining the faculty in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

other groups to win at all costs—suddenly those traits don’t matter anymore. Loyalty forces you to focus in on your goal.” That Achilles’ heel of loyalty is one that managers need to be conscious of in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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