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- 02 Feb 2002
- What Do You Think?
Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?
Queda" (Mike Donahue). Among the many commenting on the Enron case, nearly all felt that change was warranted, but few believed that significant change would come from it. The general sense of these comments was that investors, by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One
important implications in an election year marked by widespread protests. Harvard Business School Professor Vincent Pons teamed up with Amory Gethin, a fellow economist at the World Bank Development Research Group, to study 14 major... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
and dramatic increases in urbanization. This paper reviews the goals, business models, and partnerships involved in eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
flexibility were limited. The new e-business models emerging on the Internet can be classified within one or more of the generic market roles. In addition, the models can be grouped into two categories. First, and most relevant for our... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
effects" (Alex Evans). "It really doesn't matter whether the world is flat or not. Most value is added by the exploiters, not the creators, and that works in both (flat and non-flat) environments" (Gerald Nanninga). These comments, among others,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
LinkedIn. Follow Jeffrey Bussgang on LinkedIn to read more of his posts. About the Author Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School as well as co-founder and View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 28 Oct 2024
- Op-Ed
Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.
Like: Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace? How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation Feedback or... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
world's most elite and demanding professional service firms—The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)—could work together to ensure that they each could truly disconnect from work for a scheduled unit of time each week. This modest experiment View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
we find evidence that proximity is positively associated with coordination and overall performance. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-092_0272c9fd-0da7-4bad-811c-77eb8db9ef81.pdf Competing in New Markets and the Search for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
Cases & Course MaterialsBunge: Food, Fuel, and World Markets Harvard Business School Case 708-443 In 2007, Bunge, an agribusiness company, had over $26 billion in worldwide sales and was considered, along with Cargill and Archer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
Competition keeps you hungry. It forces you to continually find new and more cost-effective solutions to business problems. Although there's nothing new in this insight, recent research suggests some often-overlooked ways in which... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
Instead, NASA would send smaller spacecraft to the planet every two years, using information generated in each mission to improve the effectiveness of those to follow. While the objectives were admirable, the way NASA went about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
Are coaches worth the multimillion-dollar salaries they are offered? Is the same true of managers in the business world? Just what is the value of a top manager to the organization and employees? Do baseball managers improve performance?... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
Obstacles facing companies in today's hyper-competitive global markets are seemingly more complex than ever, to the point that managers must rethink many of the basic principles of good operations management, says Robert Hayes. In a new book, Hayes and three co-authors... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
twice"), such as a charitable donation in the recipient's name, have become increasingly popular. Recipients generally enjoy these gifts, which not only benefit others in need but also make recipients feel good about themselves. But... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
Pareto robustly optimal (PRO) solutions, extend the RO framework by proposing practical methods that verify Pareto optimality, and generate solutions that are PRO. Critically important, our methodology involves solving optimization... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
the right coaching in order to help to achieve a high self esteem...” Having inspired the question in the title, Joel then seemed to answer it by saying, “I think the answer lies in the demands of the role you hoped they’d fill. As a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
consider future implications for their companies...and then decide what action to take." Muller suggests, alternatively, that "traded companies be required—by regulating authorities—to include in their...financial report an...evaluation [of] View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett