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- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
business leaders are using to transform communications with their employees and customers, as it shifts from one-way transmission of information to two-way interaction. That's one reason Time magazine just named Facebook founder Mark... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
Take a seat and hold on tightly. You're aboard the Internet Express, where speed is the order of the day and profit but a remote destination. For firms that ride the rails of the Internet's fast track, getting big fast—whatever its cost—is the strategy of choice. Here... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings illuminate a continuum of open systems to closed systems phenomenological... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
updating the 10 disruptive forces identified in the first edition, showing how managers can address these challenges, and describing how public confidence in the market system could be rebuilt. The revised edition includes examples of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
knowledge transfer depends on identifying not only what is to be transferred—but how. And the transfer will never take place without a willing, skillful coach and a receptive, able learner. Leonardo da Vinci notwithstanding, no one is an expert on everything. An expert... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
and biosecurity community has been banging the drum about for years: the US has massively underinvested in public health. As in so many other areas of the nation's infrastructure, the elements of our health care system have eroded, and we... View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
organizations use incident-reporting systems to encourage employees to communicate about the operational problems they witness. Using data on nearly 7,500 reported incidents, we find that information campaigns encouraging process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
we argue that under the right circumstances, these two domains can be shaped by managers in ways that favor one firm over another. By understanding these forces, managers will be in a better position to utilize the full tool kit of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
conflict—that could be revived with an influx of financial resources, and that would ensure fair distribution of the fruits of the resulting growth. Today the poorest regions of the world benefit from no such infrastructure. And what View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
being integrated into the consumption process) promoted the choice of healthy food over unhealthy food (Experiments 3a and 3b). The positive effect of rituals on self-control held even when a set of ritualized gestures enacted were not explicitly labeled as a ritual,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
suited for a young, entrepreneurial organization. Start-up joiners need to do three things well: manage uncertainty, push the limits, and think like an owner. He then outlines four steps for choosing the right company: Pick a domain (find... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
first clarify, my work does not assess the success or failure of the socialization model described in Manufacturing Morals. I consider myself a process researcher, namely a scholar examining the ways in which human View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
On February 14, US Airways and American Airlines put their names on a valentine to each other as they announced an $11 billion merger, a union that created the largest airline in the United States. For American, it was one more step in... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
place for original work.) If it weren't for NPEs, the argument goes, resource-rich companies would be free to steal ideas of small inventors without fearing retaliatory lawsuits—and this would poison the business environment. But critics have another View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
creation of a vision for the future that represents a significant departure from the past, one that requires breakthroughs for its realization; 2) the creation of a system that facilitates enrollment into and elicits voluntary commitment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
"it's a bigger story," Mikes says over tea recently in her immaculate office. "We believe it's not just risk managers who fight these issues but also human resources managers, accountants, finance professionals, internal auditors, marketing, you View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
30-year customer of Filene's Basement, a retailer offering fashion goods at discounted prices, who was eventually fired by the firm. The case traces how company actions taken in the name of customer relationship management (CRM)... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
School of Public Health, Project Antares aims to create a system for devising commercial incentives that provide affordable public health initiatives, or "interventions" in healthcare parlance. Examples of commercial high-impact... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
market share. Its Mach3 shaving system was a blockbuster product, but the company was suffering the effects of its own reliance on trade loading—the practice of offering discounts to retail customers at the end of a quarter in order to... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter