Goals and Objectives - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

has to be done by the politicians. There are some very good, young, bright politicians in their 40s, but you can't expect them to take power and consolidate in a five-year period." Vogel placed the political View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

address corruption by self-reporting their experiences online. Since corruption flourishes where information is murky, the goal is transparency, leveraging the ubiquity and anonymity of the Internet. People... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

04 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

Gates, and ThorCon Power, whose lead investor is Acadian Asset Management founder Gary Bergstrom, have publically committed to goals on cost (< $0.07/kwh), availability (full-scale demonstration by 2025)... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

website. If consumers don’t trust the service providers who are active on the platform, they won’t go there and the platform won’t get any revenues. So, a platform’s interests are very aligned with the government View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

restructuring as the process through which a company radically changes the contractual relationships that exist among its creditors, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders. The goal of restructuring... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

their strengths to produce in-depth, state-of-the-art research. Q: What are some of your plans and goals for the office in the next two to four years? How do you see business in Japan developing in the years... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Mar 2004
What Do You Think?

Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?

Summing Up This month's column presented two views of the importance of customer loyalty management, one challenging its feasibility and long-term impact (Michael Treacy, Double Digit Growth) and one... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

conflict. But they will occur in a context of underlying trust, understanding, and partnership that has already been established. Effective managers use their networks to pursue plans and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

HBS model proves successful at achieving its goal is for others to decide. That said, I hope my book will open our model to broader scrutiny and jump-start that conversation. A few conditions are nonetheless... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

A: Again, this is a question about the multifaceted nature of price. I think that price-optimization software is very good at the objective part of pricing—the questions of "What price should I charge?" View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

organizations like Factual (founded by a former Google employee) have set as their goal that of providing access to all of the world's facts. Presumably this means data such as the location of every factory in the world, data that has not... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

expenses, are not taxed. In addition to this federal program, individual states have 529 savings plans, with similar goals and broadly similar features. Susan Dynarski at Harvard's Kennedy School of... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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