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18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

For many decades, corporate research and development has been pretty much an "inside job." The road to innovative new products and services began and ended with a company's internal R&D. But according to HBS assistant... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

explained, but for the flagship line of Nescafé coffee, even with its some 100 different blends worldwide, the company's strategy is to make sure that "the perception of that product is always View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

02 Apr 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

Pfeffer asks why, in the face of the evidence of its importance, do so few of these initiatives involve the sustainability of workers in these... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

local economies where they do business. We asked Harvard Business School professor C. Fritz Foley to discuss the research, which he conducted with Lee Branstetter and Raymond Fisman, both of View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

life sciences. The initiative was started in 1997 at the behest of Dean Kim Clark. We asked professor Gary P. Pisano, who heads up the... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

section, "The shortage caught many Americans by surprise, but it followed decades of warnings from health experts who said the nation's system for vaccine supply and distribution was growing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

citizens and firms is unusually available, compared with other nations. (When I ask Keloharju about the “Swedish data sample,” he gently corrects me. “This data is extraordinary,” Keloharju says. “It’s not a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

response by the Chinese authorities was extraordinary. They enacted of series of price-distorting measures that smacked of desperation. They stopped all IPOs; they asked state-owned companies to buy back... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

Until the close of the last decade, health consumers received much of their knowledge and advice about prescription drugs from their physicians or other health care professionals. Today, pharmaceutical... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

ideally suited to teaching best restructuring practices, because it forces you to put yourself in management's shoes, and understand the issues and challenges that managers actually face in these situations. View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

expanding the tent to incorporate ESG issues where that might not be the case, asking what is the role of investors in enabling companies to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

control. With the path-based approach you've got to have your eye out for how easily is this thing going to integrate with things I haven't even thought of yet. "A key question to ask yourself as you... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

Creativity" is scheduled to appear in the April 2001 issue. Asked by HBS Working Knowledge about her motivation for focusing on John Irving, Amabile replied, "I wanted to counteract a strong... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

as the basic concept. And almost everyone who is willing to talk about the idea finds that it continually gets refined and better. It also gets people to buy into the idea and... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

involvement, they depend entirely on inquiry—assembling a large group of managers and asking them to define a direction. The result is often widespread frustration. Managers and employees look to leaders to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

to be published by Princeton University Press. In this recent interview conducted by e-mail, Lodge is hopeful that the World Development Corporation will be formed. He explains why nonprofits aren't the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

19 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

information to provide." “Focusing on a single revenue source is the most profitable strategy when firms compete for consumer information” It's clear from their research that the marketplace has plenty of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

Business School professors who have signed the petition, and asked them to share why they openly oppose the Executive Order. Here are their initial responses. David B. Yoffie,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

levels: When Childs first proposed the task force strategy, Gerstner asked him one question: "Why?" But in the end, IBM's task force structure paved View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

11 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

E-Commerce Unplugged

Guess? Tommy's wireless device has GPS-like location-sensing capabilities.) Tommy's tempted, but he's running late to meet Jenny—and she wanted to go to a movie anyway. Still, it can't hurt to ask her. He pushes a button and calls Jenny.... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma

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