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- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
When the supply of the probiotic drinks dwindled due to the Yakult factory shutting down and the Yakult Ladies ran out of products to deliver, some decided on their own to deliver water and instant noodles to their customers, for free. When Watanabe View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions
readily be reclaimed by investors in the firm who lost money." In a new research paper, coauthored with World Bank economists Martin Kanz and Leora Klapper, Cole explores how various performance incentives affect lending decisions among bank loan officers. Not... View Details
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Strategist?
I'll ask a participant at random, 'Do you have that clarity in your company?' And there's always a pause. That pause gives them away." To illustrate the importance of clear purpose, The Strategist touts Swedish home goods retailer IKEA, View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Suggested Resources: Israel - Hamas War
officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries. View Details
- 13 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases
product images. The team found that the images nudged shoppers to explore those narrower search queries. Some 5.5 percent of the test group searched for narrower queries suggested by the new refinement tool, compared to 1 percent of the... View Details
- 07 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay
economic spectrum are creating faux management jobs, pointing to wage cases filed by workers at tech and financial services giants. The team found a five-fold increase in manager titles like “directors of first impressions” (aka... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
in mining and petroleum. During the first global economy, much of the growth had been driven by the exchange of manufactured goods made in the developed world for the resources found elsewhere. The emergent new global economy was driven... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 21 Mar 2019
- HBS Case
The Ferrari Way
and secretive companies in the world,” he says. “I wanted to lift the veil and see how they work.” The Ferrari Way What he found is something he termed "The Ferrari Way" after an offhand comment from the company’s chief test... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
Recently, I was listening to the Huberman Lab podcast where Dr. Andrew Huberman interviewed Dr. David Buss, a founding member in the field of evolutionary psychology and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, whose... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't
Both Associate Professor Christine Exley and Assistant Professor Julian Zlatev apply the tools of their research to examine a simple question: What makes people give? Exley became interested in the topic as a child, when she tried to raise funds for her local animal... View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
someone who actually worked for me ended up switching jobs, found out that the opportunity wasn't what it seemed to be on the surface and ended up coming back. That's not a common occurrence. You know, once you jump, sometimes it's hard... View Details
- 21 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity
(USPTO), which has used innovative practices around employees working remotely. “I found the US patent office fascinating,” Choudhury says. “It is not only a large organization with more than 10,000 people, but also an organization that... View Details
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Investors - Entrepreneurship
Patrick Chung Founding Partner, Xfund MBA 2004 Elizabeth Clarkson Partner, Sapphire Partners MBA 2000 Sir Ronald M. Cohen Founding Partner, Apax Partners MBA 1969 Sherry Coutu Independent Non Executive... View Details
- 25 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Collaborating Across Cultures
researchers found that affective trust was much more likely to stem from having high cultural metacognition than cognitive trust. This time, 60 managers attending another executive MBA course were asked to complete a network survey... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers
associate professor at the University of Chicago. Consumers put on blindfolds The researchers performed dozens of experiments, using products ranging from gummy candy to dictionaries, and testing out labels such as “newer version,” “updated edition,” and “revised... View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works
asking multiple times gets results. Titled "How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power, and Timing in Redundant Communication," Neeley and Northwestern University's Paul M. Leonardi and Elizabeth M. Gerber found... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
2016, Swedish entrepreneurs Carl-Erik Lagercrantz and Peter Carlsson founded an electric battery company called Northvolt with the dual goals of creating a company to address climate change and bringing battery manufacture to Europe.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
bringing the idea of a circular economy within grasp. HBS alumni can be found working in ventures up and down the value chain as part of this effort; here are just a few of the ways in which these tech-enabled business models are helping... View Details
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907412 HDFC (A) Harvard Business School Case 301-093 The top management team at India's leading home finance company must decide how to deal with the emergence of intense competition at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
their study of more than a dozen non-military organizations, they found numerous problems with their after action review procedures, including those that were conducted so long after the event that recollections were hazy and that failed... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott