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- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
least. (He is documenting his findings in a book, due to come out in 2013.) In a recent seminar at HBS, Piskorksi shared some findings on the... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
execute this study? How did you choose Maverick as a research site? Was the company open to this kind of study? Sandra Cha and Amy Edmondson: Hypocrisy was not at all on our minds when we started the research. Our initial interest in this... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
with the downside of thinking slow. So here is what my gut tells me about what you said this month: Thinking slow, as Daniel Kahneman calls it in his recent book by that name, is important under circumstances of high risk, uncertain... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
allocation." The detailed work was still bottom up, but true change had to be driven by the top in a sustained entrepreneurial effort. Bower teamed with Clark Gilbert and others 37 years later to report... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
Evaluation success will come in doing deals, emulating winners, and not making the same mistakes more than two, three, or four times. Case Study AOL: The One That Got Away Frans Kok shares with us the story... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
changing corporate world beset by reorganization, downsizing, and recession. Of that group, the Bulletin asked four members of the class to share some of their views on sizing up and seizing opportunity. Their discussion gives insights... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
lifestyle, these other products can add brand value and, being produced by others under license, they deliver some extra profit to the Trump organization. "In the world of representative democracy, you have to be the market share... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
exploiting indigenous communities for the benefit of their new employers in the West? And a more hopeful question: Were there cases in which Western firms and rural Indian societies View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
Donald Trump’s administration is requiring hospitals to publish their charges in a way that consumers can easily understand, starting in January. The required information... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
Six National Football League head coaches were fired on December 31, or “Black Monday,” as it’s known in the sport. The infamous tradition begins immediately after the conclusion of each NFL regular season and represents efforts by... View Details
- 26 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More
down in May. He teamed with prominent economists to study price data from June 2018—the month before the trade war began—to early 2019. Their work combines import and export prices at the US border,... View Details
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
business to look like on the other side of the obstacle. Consider what you can do in the next four hours to move in that direction. Develop a series of steps and an ongoing process for dealing with the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
you to that goal." With that in mind, Merton and a team of financial engineers created SmartNest, an individually tailored pension program that requires just a few simple inputs from employees before... View Details
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
with professor Robert Hayes. Key concepts include: Managers must rethink many of the basic principles of good operations management that worked in the past. Companies must adopt a strategy for improvement that fits the specific needs of... View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
saw potential in sports endorsements in the television age. McCormack informed Palmer that he was planning to start up a business revolving around personal business managers or... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
about $40 million. "More importantly," said Kuemmerle, Singulus established 60 percent of world market share in CD metallization. Another company he studied, Jinwoong, the world's largest... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
the new one. Cultural and historical reasons also exist for why one region would be more or less open to information flows. There are also legal issues. For instance, Massachusetts has non-compete agreements where you can't View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
teach—including what moral stand (if any) to promote. As I shared my draft with colleagues in and out of the School, many noted that my descriptions of daily activities did include, however, many unspoken... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
phenomenon—it did not really become popular until the early- to mid-1990s. A second reason is that it is difficult to uncover detailed information and conduct quantitative research. Because most project companies are private companies,... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
wafer is mapped to indicate good regions and bad regions, and this information is then used in cutting the wafer into individual components. Development groups need to be starved so they develop the right... View Details