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- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
business is to increase its profits," outlined in a New York Times Magazine article in 1970, many advocates of current practice question whether it's even proper to venture outside the price system. This is the widespread perception... View Details
Dwane L. Wallace
In 1936, Wallace took complete control of Clyde Cessna Aircraft and set out to make it the #1 light plane manufacturer. Wallace’s sharp engineering skills allowed him to create high quality, low View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
and these companies are meeting market demand, it's a good thing," he said. "The more space flights we do, the more we'll bring costs down." Some of the audience questions were less related to... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
system with periodic review, constant leadtimes, infinite supply, full backlogging, linear holding and penalty costs and no ordering costs. Forecasting ARIMA View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
executives who failed to speak plainly in a way investors could understand faced various market consequences, including lower trading volume, restricted price movement, and inconsistent analyst forecasts—all after View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
reassignments (transfers) across posts of varying importance to control bureaucrats. High-skilled bureaucrats face less frequent political transfers and lower variability in the importance of their posts. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
digitization of information goods have changed the commercial landscape: Virtual shelf space is infinite, consumers can search through innumerable options, and the marginal cost of reproducing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
home-building concentrated in low-income neighborhoods, Patrimonio Hoy has generated recognition and goodwill for the company. Its innovative approach reduces significantly the cost View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
the most? I’ve taken different skills from different places. I spent some time at a small entrepreneurial venture in Dallas, where I had hands-on experience in manufacturing, supply chain, and selling. I... View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
preferred outcome and think in reverse about how to get there. Here are the basic steps: 1. Draw a "map" of the parties who are currently involved and those who might potentially get onboard, along... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
Debora points out, it is certainly important for firms to take the time to understand all of the issues involved. In doing so, it may be useful for firms to develop an ongoing dialogue with the NGO (or NGOs) View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
on the promise of a product; pragmatists buy when the product's benefits are proven. But pragmatists usually control the bulk of the money. Understanding how a specific set of pragmatists and visionaries... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
planning, channel allocation, and the cost of returns. —Distributors, who provide pre- and post-sale technical support to their resellers on tens of thousands of SKUs, must... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
HBS, HMS, and Harvard’s School of Public Health. Two case protagonists were in attendance: Dr. Paul Farmer, an HMS professor and the subject of the best-seller Mountains Beyond Mountains, View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
time now many business historians have been moving beyond the walls of the firm to consider the social, political, and cultural place of private enterprise in American society. As I see it, the trick—one... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
make purchases. Retailers, however, felt that major credit and debit card issuers had too much market power which was leading to higher costs for retailers to accept such payment forms. Consumers were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
markets in developed nations. But by the mid-1980s, the Yangs decided the time had come to differentiate themselves. They would concentrate on quality and meeting the needs of the most discriminating... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
known as one of the leading public universities in both the U.S. and the world, has seen turbulent times recently. While student enrollment and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
behavior: Operators were hiding their freshest, most innovative techniques from management so as not to "bear the cost of explaining better ways of doing things to others." In the paper he recalls a worker telling an embed,... View Details