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- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
research has evaluated this alternative view and developed a theory based on the effect of past savings on growth through the adoption of new technologies (mostly through foreign direct investment: FDI). Q: What is the technological... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- Web
OWN: The Power of Company Ownership - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog OWN: The Power of Company Ownership Course Number 1235 Senior Lecturer Josh Baron Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits Exam or Paper Overview: This course explores the power of ownership in shaping company success, as well as how to be View Details
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
series of articles and HBS Working Papers, he explores the process of how firms in business-to-business markets manage customer relationships. As a frame of reference, Narayandas explains that modern View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
tasks: strengthening links between portfolio objectives and overall company goals; ensuring that the relationship among projects creates greater value and efficiency; and making sure that projects build organizational capacity to respond View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
polarizing barrier to collaboration,” Neeley says. “But no one was looking at that, even as global organizations were rapidly moving toward making English their lingua franca.” Since joining the HBS Organizational Behavior Unit nearly eight years ago, Neeley has... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai
recycled pellets. A visit to Dharavi in Mumbai, one of the world’s largest informal housing communities, demonstrated how markets can be an effective lever for waste management in a huge way. We crossed a... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
disconfirmation, of different need expectations will yield emotional experience of varying magnitudes, with confirmation of approach-oriented need expectations exerting stronger effects than the confirmation of avoidance-oriented need... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
affected how people behave afterward." The study is related to previous experimental research in which Cuddy and colleagues prove the positive effects of adopting expansive body postures - hands on hips, feet on desk, and the like.... View Details
- 19 Sep 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems
Excellence Comes From Saying No Why it's better to be excellent at one thing than good at everything. Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees Think effective leadership requires gregariousness and charisma? Think again.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions for David Garvin and Michael Roberto
alliance, a restructuring, or entry into a new market or product category) arise relatively infrequently. Q: Is there a place for the advocacy (or "contest") approach in real time and in some situations? A: There's nothing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Kevin Nazemi
Kevin Nazemi chose Microsoft after graduation from MIT for the chance to turn a small market presence into something much bigger. “When I arrived, our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) product had almost no traction in the U.S.,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Up Your Time Affluence
productive but leave us feeling time-poor. To counteract that effect do some time blocking. “Prioritize important tasks by planning long periods of uninterrupted time,” Whillans advises. Make a time-affluence to-do list. Instead of... View Details
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
solutions, says Koning, who studies the ripple effects that occur when entrepreneurs fail to harness new advice, skills, or marketing opportunities. It’s difficult to shake the gravitational pull of sameness... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- January 2006 (Revised October 2007)
- Background Note
Managing Networked Businesses: Course Overview for Students
Provides an overview for students of the MBA elective course Managing Networked Businesses (MNB). MNB focuses on management challenges in businesses that exhibit network effects. The first section of the note explains that such businesses comprise a large and growing... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Capital Structure; Business or Company Management; Network Effects; Organizational Design; Business and Government Relations; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competitive Strategy
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Managing Networked Businesses: Course Overview for Students." Harvard Business School Background Note 806-103, January 2006. (Revised October 2007.)
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
sequence of actions can have different psychological effects due to the role of mutual agreement. Finally, we contribute to research on consumers’ shared experiences by suggesting a novel mechanism for committing to such experiences:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
and so on—has the perverse effect of making you just like everyone else. Youngme's message is simple: Get off the competitive treadmill that's taking you nowhere. Aspire to offer the world something that is meaningfully... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
online food delivery business based in Denmark. This was our conclusion: “Just Eat seems to only work in Denmark, where business is profitable. Its other half-dozen markets are burning cash. It already has 10 percent of the Denmark... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
products for different business contexts requires that a firm deploy different new-product development processes. Products designed for stable and mature end-user markets require a process optimized for control and efficiency. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
critical issues such as racism in business technologies, inclusion in organizations, bias in legal policies, and the effect of incarceration on employment and entrepreneurship,” says Debora Spar, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
customer information. But now, conveniences such as Web browsers and "smart cards" (which today are used to store electronic money in several European markets and, in the future, could record an individual's daily transaction information)... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross