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- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
Excerpted with permission from "The Dual Edged Role of the Business Model in Leveraging Corporate Technology Investments," in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
funds offer a level of professional investment management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save View Details
- November 1994
- Case
Hewlett-Packard: French Manufacturing Operations
By: Robin Cooper, Patricia Bost and Robert S. Kaplan
Cooper, Robin, Patricia Bost, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Hewlett-Packard: French Manufacturing Operations." Harvard Business School Case 195-120, November 1994.
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
of managers. The best way to address this is to widen the span of control for everyone between the CEO and first-line employees. Instead of six to 12 direct reports, all managers should have 15 to 20 people... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
technologies where initial experiments cost more and reveal less. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48776 Private Networks of Managers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
technologies together are pushing people to take an increasingly active role in managing their own health records. So the project will explore the relationship between, on the one hand, new technologies for predicting future disease View Details
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
service quality are more or less immune from the high-end challenger. These findings suggest that before mounting a counterattack on a competitor's incursion, it's important to understand your customer priorities and your business's place... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
How did you first become interested in PRT systems? Ben Edelman: As a longtime user of public transportation, I often wish for more widespread transit links, more frequent services, and faster journeys. Yet I'm shocked by the View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
make them wiser. An observer of policy based on behavioral economics might well conclude that an assumption of irrationality may be valid, but irrational behavior is hard to predict. Why, for example, do people (even experts and View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49214 Working Papers Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency By: Mohan, Bhavya, Ryan W. Buell, and Leslie K. John Abstract— A firm's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
What is missing is any role for market forces in governance, with their promise to achieve better cost effectiveness and innovation in governance practice. The authors argue that governance-linked D&O... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting
but this logic overlooks the fact that managers don't always do the right thing for shareholders. If managers are opportunistic, then the extra latitude provided by the dual-reporting system can be costly to... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50562 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-ups, and the Growth of Venture Capital By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
with which they can be used. Cheap labor is not really cheap if workers are unproductive. Input costs can be overshadowed by logistical costs, delays, and inefficiencies. There are hidden View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- December 2012 (Revised October 2022)
- Case
Plastiq
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Gaurav Jain, Liroy Haddad, Luke Langford and Matt Noble
The young CEO of a venture-backed startup needs to figure out his go to market strategy and the right profile for his first key sales hires. Should he develop partnerships with channels that would provide leverage or build out a direct sales force? And should the sales... View Details
Keywords: Payments; Sales; Channels; Credit Cards; Digital Platforms; Selection and Staffing; Cost vs Benefits; Salesforce Management; Marketing Channels; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Management Systems
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Gaurav Jain, Liroy Haddad, Luke Langford, and Matt Noble. "Plastiq." Harvard Business School Case 813-125, December 2012. (Revised October 2022.)
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
participation decisions. Based on our experimental results, we suggest preliminary lessons for improving the design of household risk management contracts. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-116.pdf Where Is the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
operations and supply chain will not only better enable them to manage future pandemics, but also some of the disruptions that climate change is bringing like more intensive storms, droughts, View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
effects explain between sixty and eighty percent of manufacturing entry. We use spatial distributions of natural cost advantages to address partially endogeneity concerns. MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
for the Securities and Exchange Commission to pass rules that would allow for crowdfunding investment on a large scale. Already, companies have dipped their toes into crowdfunding through websites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short, medical professionals make money when their patients become sick. Here's one... View Details