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- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
chains, and speeding communications. The result: "People can spend more time thinking up new products and servicing customers, and less View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-032.pdf Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten Abstract If a country's accounting standards represent a political-economic equilibrium, why is that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
unprofessional, it featured red font and a pixelated cartoon devil. Other participants received a deliberately professional-looking survey titled "Carnegie Mellon University Executive Council Survey on Ethical Behaviors," which sported... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
tougher patients. To test this, I controlled for the severity of patient illness. The unexpected result not only did not change, the relationship got slightly stronger. Then, I suddenly glimpsed what these results might mean. In well-led... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016
and minimizes the expected time to detection under a pre-specified alternative hypothesis. We apply our method to a model in which the interdependency among the multiple adverse events is captured by a Cox... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
above and below, by virtue of having been there for a long time and by virtue of people thinking that given that this is your baby—that what you're interested in is in the... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
behave and operate in a more sustainable way? It allows you to envision new markets, new opportunities, and new needs. Very few companies have reached this stage." Boosting Commitment Many companies... View Details
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
When American companies move pieces of their operations overseas—often because manufacturing and labor costs are much cheaper—they run the risk of moving the expertise, innovation, View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
their products directly to buyers) or as a reseller (purchasing products from suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a decision between whether control rights over a non-contractible... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
The Rituals of Case Method Teaching
a bit more in control of things—we’re not, the world is not in our control—but there is a sense that if you can do this repeated, familiar set of steps, it increases your sense of control View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
uses of formal “lessons learned,” and how best to use the scarce time of the most valuable JPL engineers. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/917404-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008
tolerance, can have substantial welfare costs. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13966 I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: A Study of Online Grocery Purchases View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
likely to rely on public welfare—they tend to be poorer and have more kids than native-born individuals—the opposite happens over a time horizon of 15 to 20 years. In aging societies, by paying taxes View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
quantitative, large-sample study of digital cameras introduced from 1991 to 2006 by firms from three prior industries: photography, consumer electronics, and computers. By 2004, several features had emerged as a dominant design; however,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
demand for liquidity and immediacy into long-term lending of the kind that promotes growth and prosperity. And banks are the institutions with the expertise to do this. Thus... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
crying, and reflecting hard about life. We felt transformed by the time that we had together. She is a true rebel; a true badass. Frances and I are on a journey, trying to... View Details
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
Hisano cites companies such as Wells, Richardson & Co. and Heller & Merz Company, which introduced dedicated dyes for butter coloring in the late 1870s. Synthetic dyes decreased the cost of coloring... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007
in America with 99% of its revenues deriving from its simple, text-only advertising services. It is on track to bring in roughly $9.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2006, which would place it fourth among American media companies in total ad sales, ahead of giants... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace