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- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
zones As companies expand operations across the globe, they must grapple with time gaps during which employees cannot collaborate (i.e., lost productivity). To study this phenomenon, a research team studied communication patterns among 250 offices of a multinational... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
entry strategies and find that small firms are less likely to be pioneers in new device markets—a phenomenon that is not observed in new drug markets. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
countries. In his new book, Consumer Capitalism: Politics, Product Markets, and Firm Strategy in France and Germany, Trumbull looks at the implications of this rise of consumer protectionism. Sean... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
payroll monthly gave me a new appreciation for sales and selling,” he says. “As [Samuel] Johnson said, the prospect of hanging in the morning concentrates the mind.” He put much of what he learned in his 2014 book, Aligning View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
define a proper strategy for the design language of their products. An empirical analysis was conducted on the product language strategies in the Italian furniture industry; in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
politicians and the voters who elected them—fostering greater employment, say. SEC enforcement actions can be costly for companies, about a third of which go out of business after being targeted. Heese wondered, all things being equal,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
via the exercise and the subsequent discussion." Seventeen faculty members from the Business, Government, and the International Economy course and the Strategy course were involved in the exercise and discussion. “The offshoring... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
and the United States: Dr. Werner G. Seifert, chairman of Deutsche Borse (the German Stock Exchange) and an architect of the planned merger between his Frankfurt-based organization and the London Stock Exchange; James L. Cochrane, senior vice president View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
a powerful tool for value creation. For senior management neither to understand the risks being taken by the firm nor to understand how the risks that were selected not to be... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
longer-term investments—makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive advantage. "Short termism" has been blamed for everything... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
firms and agglomeration economies. We focus on areas where empirical research is scarce but possible. We first outline a conceptual framework for city formation that allows us to contemplate what empiricists... View Details
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
Michael Beer and his coauthors at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, the executives underscored the importance of higher-ambition goals, including engaging with and developing employee and customer commitment, contributing to the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
full, clear, and succinct narrative for hiring managers. 2. “Borrow” reputation and legitimacy from others in your network, establishing innocence by association. Executive search firms can also act as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
bridges, water, power and more? It’s not because they don’t aspire to. It’s because they lack the money and the expertise (in African cities) or because they can’t get to political consensus (in the United States)—or because there are other priorities View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
Viking, its literary press, which any serious author would be over the moon to get a contract with. HBSWK: What would you say is the biggest conflict Noma faces? Khaire: When you as a firm are depending entirely on the chef's creativity... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
their own self-interest? Supporters say integrated reporting brings benefits to companies, including better risk management, development of strategies for long-term sustainability, and positioning of the... View Details
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
Rebecca Henderson lays out three ways for firms to profit from investing in environmental sustainability: forestalling risk, increasing operational efficiency, and selling to the environmental niche. Build a... View Details
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
ESG—factors), both because of its importance to socially conscious investors and as an indicator of long-term corporate health. Firms such as Morgan Stanley Capital International crunch hundreds of factors from carbon emissions to the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
possibilities for an effective resolution. Instead, she urges managers to look beyond differences in practice to underlying principles. In many instances, this approach can help managers find a strategy that... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
force them to move production destined for China to somewhere else. Such unintended consequences make businesses uneasy. Firms conduct business under a set of accepted rules, just like athletes want to... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications