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- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
"I'm very strong, I can handle this." And he said, "Well, you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." And I thought, "Oh, could you have a more disgusting analogy for a woman who's giving birth?" I was... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
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of bits and pieces that we’ve been working on into a coherent scaffold,” says Hawkins. “It helps orient us and helps us think about our research and where to go next.” VP of Research Subutai Ahmad also employs the puzzle analogy to... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
tapes when everyone else was selling CDs," says Huber, noting that the antiquated nature of his analogy proves his point. “General Motors spent a billion dollars on my tuition.” GM's leadership team heeded the suggestion, not only... View Details
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
findings show that people don't click through on advertising on social networks. "A good analogy is to imagine sitting at a table with friends when a stranger pulls up a chair, sits down, and tries to sell you something while you are... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
coupled search processes can dramatically obscure the true impact of design on performance, confounding empirical research. We identify research strategies for tackling this difficulty; discuss population-level advantages of coupled search processes; and highlight... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
analogy of cyberdefense as a castle—a favorite of his—he tends to the moats, the walls, and the gates. Get past those, and he deploys the dogs. And he’s watched many people scale walls, break gates, evade dogs, and leave with your AmEx... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
explores the changes that have taken place in the consumer television receiver market and the challenges faced by leaders of the analog market, like Sony. It is intended for use with the technical note, "Competency-destroying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
base. But many ventures simply partition markets based on what is identifiable and accessible via purchased customer lists, SIC codes, LinkedIn, Facebook, or the sheer number of cold calls. Sales may be made, but it's the result of a random-walk process View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
call center they saw in Houston. Having identified contractors' need for just-in-time delivery, the team reasoned by analogy that emergency response teams faced a similar problem of quickly reacting to urgent requests from unpredictable... View Details
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
a player's pay-off from agreement is risky. We find that a risk-averse player typically increases his equilibrium receipts when his pay-off is made risky. This is because the presence of risk makes individuals behave "more patiently" in bargaining. Strong... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
performance decline when they move from one team to another; they operate fairly independently. (In the corporate world, the somewhat autonomous position of the chief financial officer is analogous to that of the punter, Groysberg says.)... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
world will have recognized the urgency of the climate change problem. I think the best analogy for the state of the industry, once that realization has set in, is aerospace in the 1960s and the moon shot, where there’s a real problem and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
latecomers, as we build a technological infrastructure, it will be the newest and most advanced," Sicupira explains. "That has happened in Brazil with our digital cable installation, which surpasses the analog cable that is the core of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
solicit input on the ground, refine, and finally present their completed proposal to their partner organization. Moon draws on a medical school analogy to describe the immersion experience. “For decades medical schools have understood the... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
Markets By: Menon, Anoop R., and Dennis Yao Abstract—This paper explores how mental models affect the analysis of dynamic strategic interactions. We develop an explanation-based view of mental models founded on a regression analogy and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
to Cummins. One way to analogize this is to imagine if a fraction of your mortgage interest deduction was disallowed, and that fraction reflected the number of days you spent abroad. Such a disallowance would increase your taxes and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
catalog that professors would employ "an analogous method [to the 'case method' used at the Law School], emphasizing classroom discussion, supplemented by lectures and frequent reports, which may be called the problem method."... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
enlisting companies to adopt a role considered the province of government. However, to use the analogy above, what if there are no washing machines to clean clothes? If the ideal institutions for redressing societal ills do not exist or... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
with the target? 5. Ask analogous questions about the player(s) at this next-to-final stage: Whom would you ideally like to have onboard to maximize the chances of the most difficult player at this stage saying "yes"? How can... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
than eliminate or relax it. The analogy to the keiretsu system has been widely touted in the Internet era. Companies such as CMGI billed themselves as new economy keiretsu. We are seeing a similar outcome as in Japan. The model turned out... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer