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- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
funding strategies, Lerner hopes the book will help government officials around the world craft policies and laws meant to fuel innovation. "Policymakers are paying a lot more attention to innovation right now," Lerner says.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
approval," Trichakis says. "The Office of Civil Rights is involved too. Everyone is still in the loop of thinking about how the system should look: how many points for dialysis time, waiting time, things like that. "I... View Details
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
2000-2005 period covered in the paper, the number of titles that sold only a few copies each week increased twofold—yet the number of titles that didn't sell at all was four times as high as in 2000. The increasing clutter may be a problem, she notes. With the View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
Kennecott also arranged for an Export-Import Bank loan plus U.S. political risk insurance. The mine's output would then be sold to North American and European industrial customers under long-term supply contracts, with collection rights... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
areas of our lives, we expect and demand incredible personalization," Kim said. "But right now, there's more personalization in the music you listen to through applications like Pandora and Spotify than the average school system... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
customer loyalty management initiative, in and of itself, will overcome basic shortfalls in product/service delivering in a competitive situation." Robin Clark pointed out that: "Neither view is completely right or wrong. I... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of CEO activism focuses on social issues unrelated to their core business, ranging from environmental issues to LGBT rights and race relations. Using two field experiments we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
Materials"L'Occitane en Provence Bo Becker, Daniela Beyersdorfer, Scott Mayfield, and Mayuka YamazakiHarvard Business School Case 212-051 Cosmetics company L'Occitane en Provence must decide if it is the right time to go public, and,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
right direction. These subsequent regulations and general trends imply that the impact of investment banking conflicts that we document for affiliated and unaffiliated analysts might have been attenuated, but it is difficult to envision... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
disillusioned because while the names and faces changed, the partisan-driven gridlock in Washington and politicians’ focus on primary voters, special interests, and donors did not. “I was always looking for ‘who’s the right candidate?’”... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
this regard at one time or another. How do the great service organizations avoid this? Sasser: It starts with creating great—not always comfortable—places to work for people who are customer oriented, then populating them with the right... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
this loss of land, mining-related environmental degradation, and allegations of human rights abuses, a coalition of five indigenous communities forged an alliance with a group of domestic and international NGOs to build their case against... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
worked. Right after graduating in 2000, Rovell landed a job at ESPN.com as its first business-of-sports anchor. He's now regularly featured on the network and writes prolifically for its online magazine. On the surface, Rovell's story... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
strength or weakness of local entrepreneurship in host countries, Huang argued. The institutional quality of an economy, which affects the efficiency of capital allocation and the security of property rights of productive and innovative... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
Collaboration Is Right for You? Authors:Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti Publication:Harvard Business Review 86, no. 12 (December 2008) Abstract Nowadays, virtually no companies innovate alone. Firms team up with a variety of partners,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
change in the information set for employees when the incentives and decision rights remain unchanged. Also examines the tradeoffs front-line employees face as they divide their efforts between reaching new customers and increasing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking cost effective and routine. In addition, a web of interlocking ad networks trades inventory and offers to show the right ad to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen by stakeholders to mediate organizational goals (e.g., profits) and private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
new ideas and approaches within certain zones of privacy. Organizations allow them to do that by drawing four types of boundaries: around teams of people (zones of attention), between feedback and evaluation (zones of judgment), between decision View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810086-PDF-ENG Torts 101: Civil Wrongs & Ways to Right Them Lena G. Goldberg and Mary Beth FindlayHarvard Business School Note 312-033 This note summarizes basic principles of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne