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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
FDA to work 1 million acres of forest, a concession worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Every word of the company’s forty-page proposal was plagiarized from a U.S. Forest Service report on woodlands 7,000 miles away. And even though I... View Details
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (HBS MBA '03) was excelling at his job—selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals—when the company's 360-degree performance-review process underwent a change. As part of the new... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (MBA ’03) was excelling at his job — selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals — when the company’s 360-degree performance-review process underwent a change. As part of the new... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
service requests to their city government. Users who viewed photos of city workers responding to their service requests were more likely to continue using the app over the ensuing 13 months, demonstrating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
when NASA started investing in the commercial space sector in a more concerted way. It created a program called Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS). It spent $500 million to start seeding rocket launch companies to provide a... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
the AdSense business was on fire, and when I said how many new customers we added over the last couple of months, Eric Schmidt almost fell out of his chair, and he said, "What did you say? This is incredible. Do you need more marketing... View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
to look at products as customers do: a way to get a job done. Creating a Positive Professional Image (19,535) In today’s diverse workplace, your actions and motives are constantly under scrutiny. Time to manage your own professional image... View Details
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
(centered) around rapid iteration and customer insight." One way to address the challenge, according to Jeffrey Vetter, is to "separate out forward thinking groups from the day to day business." Dave Schnedler suggested... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
number of companies are placing users at the core of their business strategies. Take MUJI, a leading Japanese design retailer, which has created a range of products designed by customers including a car, light fixtures, and sofas. The... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
article in a business journal that gives as strong, comprehensive, and accurate a depiction of corrupt business practices as “Show Me the Money.” My own career was mostly in the Foreign Service when I had occasion to see and lament most... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
logo, and selecting the right products and services that enhanced her revitalized brand. And, she had to decide where to site the new hotel properties to best compete against global behemoths, Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Leading Diversity for Competitive Advantage provides the evidence-based strategic models, methods, tools, and templates that top leaders require to create equity and inclusion, and drive sustainable diversity for competitive advantage in talent and View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
inventory problems and dire financial crises—and whatever the symptom, the root cause was usually that the company had lost touch with its customers. “It’s one of the main reasons the country continues to fall behind,” she says. Her job was to go in, determine what the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
full-time in 2005, spent seven years developing a deep network of contacts, then set up CET in 2012 to offer travel services to school groups and political think tanks alike. Three years later, in 2015, Michael Laverty—Gordon’s... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
of software-as-a-service apps for a wide range of business needs from customer management to human resources, while the portal service gives businesses the ability to manage all their apps in one place from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
new offering that would "change the way people experience TV." The new service would allow consumers to bypass traditional cable and satellite delivery and use the Internet to access live streams of more than 40 popular... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
Corporation suffered one of the largest cyber breaches to date. The breach that occurred during the busy holiday shopping season resulted in personal and credit card information of approximately 110 million Target customers being... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
Evidence from the Hospital Industry By: Dafny, Leemore S., Katherine Ho, and Robin S. Lee Abstract—We consider the effect of mergers between firms whose products are not viewed as direct substitutes for the same good or service but are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
and many blocks of real Normandy butter created a new model for French manufacturing Complete Table of Contents September 2016 The Taxi Wars of Jakarta How two alumni-founded on-demand ride services are disrupting traffic in the world’s... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
his coauthors, correct some of the misinformation, describe how the thinking on the subject has evolved, and discuss the utility of the theory. They start by clarifying what classic disruption entails—a small enterprise targeting overlooked View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel