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- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
otherwise healthy parent corporation can deter a manager from making the investment in the first place even if it is likely to have a positive net present value in expectation. As a result, the firm will suffer an opportunity cost of... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
numbers, industry trends, strategy considerations, shareholder interests, and several other financing options and come up with a plan to save his company. With Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos's recent acquisition of the Washington Post and sports... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
strategic and general management issues facing service organizations as well as the management of service in manufacturing companies. The multidisciplinary unit focuses on three functions critical to the effective delivery of service:... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
information technology for pedagogy; in teaching entrepreneurial management; in global research and scholarship; and in its commitment to values and leadership as core elements of its curriculum and mission. Clark also oversaw a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie
by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron, and Katherine Shonk (Basic Books) In "You Can't Enlarge the Pie": Six Barriers to Effective Government, authors Max Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at HBS,... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Strategic Value Advisors—predict environmental performance. We find that firms that have more KLD Environmental Concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory violations in later years than firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
“lean-in." We use a laboratory experiment to examine the effect of leaning-in. Despite men and women achieving similar and positive returns when they are forced to negotiate, we find that women avoid negotiations more often than men.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
could still purchase an entire album. But consumers found more value in cherry-picking favorite tunes for much less money. Fans of Strawberry Alarm Clock, for instance, could buy the 1960s hit Incense and Peppermint while easily avoiding... View Details
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Strategy in Emerging Economies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
effectiveness and their products are not distinctive. But cost advantages tend to decrease over time, and eventually companies in developing countries will need to address both of these issues if they want to stay competitive. Company... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
currently practiced, contributes much to creativity and innovation, says Professor Emeritus Jim Heskett. What changes will allow managers, particularly in larger organizations, to add value to the creative process? Visit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
Courtesy Pentagram Graphic designers have created some of the world’s best-known logos, from Coke to Mercedes to McDonald’s. Yet their role in establishing a company’s identity is not always understood or valued by senior management. In... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
providers within a small radius around the subscriber's ZIP code.) The best payers would be able to recommend effective disease-management options for subscribers with chronic conditions. Competition would... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
our classmates took off her shoes and—WHOA—eyes burning, nose on fire, it was the worst stench you could imagine! When we asked her why she didn’t do anything, she said the current options stunk (pun intended); they either didn’t work,... View Details
- 22 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)
following graduation, Nneka joined the CrossBoundary team. Now Nneka is thriving at CrossBoundary, working directly with other HBS alumni and collaborating with stakeholders as she attracts capital and grows a highly effective team. In... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
learning a new platform, the value of a new platform, and, perhaps most important, the popularity of a new platform. “There’s been a massive proliferation of platforms, so developers cannot possibly know all the platforms that exist or... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
about the increasing severity of the patent system's problems, and the negative effects that they were having on firms. While these issues had been widely recognized by practitioners, and had been the subject of weighty, footnote-laden... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
that. They make sure they carry enough inventory so you can get that job done immediately. Lighting fixtures, on the other hand, are a different animal. There are hundreds of thousands of options to choose from and generally the need is... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
2018, I left my corporate job and decided to explore opportunities with a social impact-driven food organization, particularly one focused on food access and hunger relief. What made the Greater Boston Food Bank stand out among the View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
new technology . Is (it) irrational (to) place a higher value on their current solution than they do on a future uncertain benefit(?)" What about the impact on management? Nicola Stevens concluded that "It (irrational behavior)... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
McGinn says their results suggest that gender effects around competition are contextual and that the results depend on the sorts of tasks men and women are asked to complete and the gender of those with whom they are interacting.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard