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- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
Working PapersSecuring Online Advertising: Rustlers and Sheriffs in the New Wild West Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract Read the news of recent computer security guffaws, and it's striking how many problems stem from online... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
value." Lawyers who have no experience working with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists will most likely focus on the wrong things.—Constance Bagley # 10: Failing to incorporate early enough. One problem that arises here is the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607047 The Pine Street Initiative at Goldman Sachs Harvard Business School Case 407-053 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407053 Revenue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care
when the information is so complex? The key is not just to get the information to the consumers but to help them process it." Decentralizing approaches to problem solving: Conference attendees and survey respondents generally... View Details
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
"If the other team ended up paying that money they were making a mistake." Business schools began teaching negotiation in the 1980s, when it was presented as a straightforward economic analysis. Assuming the other side was... View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
Rio Doce. But again, the company runs into problems with obtaining regulatory approvals. This is compounded by the global financial crisis that seriously impacts the global steel industry. How will Baosteel react to this adverse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
illegal business entities don’t incorporate to make people happy or to make people better. They incorporate to make people money. Everything else good that happens beyond that is icing on the stakeholders’ cake.” Others differed. Michael... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
in Jamaica This case describes the economic development problems faced by the small Caribbean-island country of Jamaica over most of the past half-century. The Jamaican economy showed relatively strong growth in the 1960s but stagnated in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
number of improvisers as well. In order to make this work, the players adhere to a set of shared codes—almost like language—consisting of, among other things, key, tempo, groove, rhythm, song form, tradition, and harmony. Miles Davis was known to have a preference for... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide
technique, but that extends to a lot of other parts of the investing world. The human-plus-machine idea is making a big impact in how things are being done. There are things that machines can do that humans don’t have to do. But at the View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
achievement. What do you think about the end of his story? A: Let's begin with the beginning of the end. In the beginning of the end, there were Shackleton's tireless attempts to rescue the twenty-two men who were trapped on Elephant... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
116-007 Dollar General Bids for Family Dollar In spring 2015, Dollar General's CEO Rick Dreiling was looking ahead to retiring at year's end but worried about ensuring continued growth for the company he had built since 2008 into a market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions
Most companies rely on artificial intelligence-based algorithms to make a wide variety of business decisions—from pinpointing the products customers prefer to determining which resumes should go to hiring managers. The problem for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 04 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.
Ambitious New Year’s resolutions often end in disappointment. So instead of setting unrealistic goals in 2022, business leaders should consider making smaller, simpler changes—and they just might see better results, says Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
these two additional measurements, they may end up with trousers that fit them better. For retailers, the goal is to devise measures that capture the variability in people’s preferences well enough, while minimizing the number of... View Details
- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
this is the greatest opportunity for a company to move in and create a memorable experience,” Thomke says. “A problem could be a problem, or a problem could be an opportunity.” “A View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
build a literature more effectively than they could with less diverse approaches to gathering data. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51015 April 29, 2016 Science The Growing Problem of Patent Trolling By:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
supervisor, peers, and customers. You're constantly fighting fires. You're mired in office politics. You end each day exhausted and discouraged, wondering what, if anything, you've accomplished. You're not alone. As Linda Hill and Kent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
On the flip side, 28 percent laid off or furloughed workers. By the end of April 2020, 15.9 million Americans were out of work, and the unemployment rate was 14.7 percent—a huge swing from the 50-year low of 3.6 percent just months... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert