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- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
cable channels were aimed at ardent fans who wanted live, beginning-to-end, daytime coverage, from cross-country ski races to early rounds of the hockey tournament. And then there were the real fanatic fans... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions for David Garvin and Michael Roberto
unequally distributed among the participants, when information is unequally distributed, and when there are no clear rules of engagement—especially about how the final decision will be made. Unfortunately,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
to do with those who are in charge of marketing communications. As a result, the various channels of communication are out of alignment, and the... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
Lost sales. Friction. Inefficiency. These are dirty words in the world of business, and they are inevitabilities for companies that don't watch their language, so to speak. Harvard Business School Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
especially managers, that they cannot expect answers instantaneously.” Examine the geographical distribution of their teams. Companies that distribute workers north and south... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
over the distribution of knowledge. To date, they have been far too concerned with the size of their royalties, at the expense of public utility.... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
This means the distribution shifted: There are more firms overall because of the policy, but there are proportionally more incorporated firms. These were new ventures that people were serious enough about... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
"pro-social," meaning they are likely to value more equal distributions of resources, while others are "pro-self," meaning they try and maximize value for themselves. She wondered, when... View Details
- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
own scale, Wheeler intentionally has users distribute a fixed number of points among the different skills. A high self-rating in one area must be paid for by corresponding lower rating in others. "There's a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
Forest Reinhardt Since brewing is a marketing-driven business, finding ways to differentiate a beverage from its competition is crucial. Heineken’s chief marketing officer took a novel approach: take the complicated processes of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
Additional information and data gathered from the event is expected to be distributed later this year. "We need a vision that says transportation and infrastructure (are) important, so important that a lot View Details
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
section, "The shortage caught many Americans by surprise, but it followed decades of warnings from health experts who said the nation's system for vaccine supply and distribution was growing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
marathon bombings, and still the major fund collecting donations hadn’t finalized a process for distributing those donations. In Columbine, it took years for donated funds to make it to victims, and even then they received only 58 percent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
Would-be innovators know that one of their biggest challenges is systematically identifying the innovations with the greatest likelihood of creating disruptive growth. Pick the wrong one, and squander a year... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
About half of US states—mostly run by Republican governors—cut off extended unemployment benefits months before the federal government was planning to end them on Labor Day last year, convinced workers would flood back to employers who... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
in the creation and distribution of goods and services, becoming a more significant employer in the process. How about employment? Will a post-capitalist society create or destroy jobs? For example, Airbnb... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
HBS professor emeritus George C. Lodge's idea of a World Development Corporation has been percolating for years—he wrote a seminal article on the proposal in Foreign Affairs in 2002 (reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge). The WDC would be a... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
everywhere, and distributed computing. Think how these are starting to apply, for instance, in mass transit. The old model is a centralized bus and light rail system, serving fixed routes at high cost, with little adaptation to schedule... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
iPhoto This weekend the NFL is concluding its annual draft. Up to 255 college football players will be distributed over three days across the 32 NFL teams. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, NFL... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
Beset by changes on several fronts, the media industry, traditionally comprising the familiar print and broadcast channels of mass communication, has been undergoing a major transformation in recent years,... View Details