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- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
former book publishing executive, Olson recognizes that his outlook might be a bit less cheerful if he was reporting to the company's head office in Gütersloh, Germany. "It's a very nice time to be at HBS and not in the book... View Details
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
copy the strategy without having the underlying core principles in place will always be behind the vanguard. Public accountability via end-to-end responsibility. Societal purpose and values help meet an emerging public demand that companies know about, care about, and... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
pieces of news reminded me of the importance of this question. It was reported that Saturn dealerships were closing in anticipation of the announcement by General Motors that Saturn was one of three brands that it would drop. Saturn,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
cognition. Using both thought sampling and brain imaging, the current investigation demonstrated that mind-wandering is associated with activity in a default network of cortical regions that are active when the brain is "at rest." In addition, individuals'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
capital markets are not going to be very transparent. This situation often, but not always, inhibits entrepreneurship. Capital markets have become much more transparent, for example, in France, with Le Nouveau Marche, and in Germany, with Der Neuer Markt. Plus, things... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
forecasting; supply chain speed; inventory planning; and gathering accurate, available data. The following excerpt from their report in the Harvard Business Review shows how some of these companies are making the most of the data... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
the investor's and the investee's countries, affects the asset allocation decisions of global mutual funds. We find that investors tend to underweight investees with greater accounting distance. Using the mandatory adoption of International Financial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
recently on corporate responsibility, integrated reporting, and sustainable investing. His work also looks into equity valuation, corporate governance, and corporate reporting issues in enterprises around the globe. View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
Sebastian Turullols was reporting on the young company's free cash and how to invest it. Former 3Com CEO Bill Krause responded with a cautionary tale: "Many years before, a CFO wanted to invest his company's cash in a high-yield,... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
change and disruption that is going on in the business environment. Indeed, almost 50 percent of the CEOs surveyed in the IBM study said the source of innovation was from changes in the business environment. Less than 20 percent reported... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted by DrumNet in Kenya that attempts to help farmers adopt and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
friends, and faith in God (Studies 3—6). Finally, dream content influenced judgment: Participants reported greater affection for a friend after considering a dream in which a friend protected rather than betrayed them (Study 5) and were... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
messages to those who are not interested in their products or services. It is now possible for chief marketing officers to calculate return on marketing investment and to report regularly to the corporate board progress against three or... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
Impact Reporting & Investment Standards (IRIS). And social impact bonds that use private investment to support government and nonprofit projects are now coming from the United Kingdom to the United States—Massachusetts might be one of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
who pays Medicare’s rates to providers. (For the purposes of this example, we assume Medicare pays providers 50 percent of the rates paid by private plans, at the midpoint of the 35 percent to 65 percent Medicare discounts reported by... View Details
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
managers-firms with the greatest information frictions prior to the rule change. We report three changes related to compensation after 1992 for division managers. First, within firms with dispersed managers, division manager pay co-moves... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
McElheran explains. "He is on top of everything in that organization. He knows all the people. He oversees their training. He looks at the software every day. He runs experiments. He customized all the reports to tell him exactly what he... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
details Schön Klinik's founding, its early focus on measurement and improvement, and the design and implementation of a system-wide structure for measuring and reporting actual health outcomes. The case details the care cycle for eating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
report accusing a Chinese bond company of using fraudulent financial statements. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112066-PDF-ENG Sino-Forest (C) David F. HawkinsHarvard Business School Supplement 112-067 An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne