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- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
estimate the value of the right to determine duration to the buyer, compared to a standard duration. Finally, a counterfactual analysis illustrates why quantifying transaction costs is important for the accurate analysis of welfare.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information technology investments, I find that a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
Toward this end, they obtained the rights to their own copyrights back from Island Records; they oversaw the vast majority of decisions about touring, record production, graphics, and packaging themselves; they focused on touring and a... View Details
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
company statutes and shareholder lists, reveals that the addition of voting rights to their bylaws, particularly maximum vote provisions and graduated voting scales (which stipulated that less-than-proportional votes increase in parallel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
addition, OLPC had to determine the right mix of attributes and features that would appeal to the target users, children. Design could not be an afterthought; the laptop had to be attractive enough so a young person would feel proud to... View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
"But it's a slower process than people imagine. At the GPP, we don't expect change overnight. But we feel that we can help advance the business process in a direction that makes commercial sense and is the right thing to do." View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
regional strategy could take many years. The obvious implication is that strategic initiatives can be pursued at the regional level only if some decision rights are reallocated—whether from the local or global levels, or from the other... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
question is, "Why might having too much choice be bad for a brand?" The research I have done with Dilip Soman shows that certain types of variety can actually overwhelm a shopper or make that shopper question whether they are choosing the View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
PhD. in biochemistry, said that even though issues regarding intellectual property and patent rights are ever more complicated by new discoveries, the language of the court remains very broad. However, there are a few basics to keep in... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
other side of this wall, and I could have gone to her office to take this meeting but I decided to stay at my desk. Roche: I wish we were able to do these studies and get them out faster, because managers need to make these choices right... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
top-management counsel, hiring the most qualified staff, and an apprenticeship process that built excellence. For example, Marvin Bower, founder of McKinsey, preached that partners had to focus on serving the right senior clients on their... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
if your toilet blows up, you aren't going to wait two days for delivery for a part from (competitor) Amazon Prime. You need that part right now. You need it to be in stock, and you need somebody to help you understand what to do, what... View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
to use? A: Yes, this is a key ingredient of our analysis. As is the case in any market, consumers need to be informed about products to make the right decisions. In the context of consumer privacy, consumers need to be informed about the... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
Right Way Authors:Todd Rogers and Michael I. Norton Abstract What happens when people try to "dodge" a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? In four online studies using paid participants, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer outlines what the high-commitment, high-performance organization looks like and provides practitioners with the transformation process to help them get there. Starting with leaders who have the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
property (IP) protection to safeguard their competitive advantages. However, the majority of recent patent litigation is driven by nonpracticing entities (NPEs), firms that generate no products but instead amass patent portfolios for the sake of enforcing IP View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
knowledge and intelligence about the business they run. "You can see how the left side and the right side of an organization come together to produce something that matters, and that is also, by the way, very successful... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
making his job easier, he said. Dorrance led seminars on leadership for his women soccer players, ran leadership self-assessments and team ratings, and then let teams choose their own captains. Leaders find the best people they can, ensure their preparation, put them... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
competition law and, where appropriate, suggest remedies to right the violations we uncover. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51875 2016 Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne