the Women's Initiative - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

disposables and extended-wear lenses, and two involved new manufacturing processes. In a controversial but necessary move, he canceled dozens of small R&D initiatives for conventional lenses to free up cash for View Details

Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

linking the customer management effort to profitability. The initial phase is important, he says, because the customers a company serves define... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

combat these scourges is for rich countries to double their foreign aid budgets, and Gordon Brown, the United Kingdom's chancellor of the exchequer, has called for a new Marshall Plan to fight poverty. Both... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

19 Mar 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

Businesses It was entrepreneurs from the fringes-of-society who gave birth to the green business movement starting in the 19th century, Geoffrey Jones tells us. Teach Teaching... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

A New Ecosystem for Business and Society

dominant form of organization has been of a hierarchy. Now and in the future, Clark said, many more people in the organization will be responsible for taking action and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

Markt in 1997 (a creation of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, or Deutsche Börse), there is a new and receptive home for initial public offerings. To learn the practitioner's point... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

01 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

indications of failure) of the innovation process. Firm scientists were able to see beyond the drug's initial lack of success in treating hypertension, and, in doing so, they... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical

05 Mar 2001
What Do You Think?

Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?

can get beyond the initial negative reaction to what, for want of a better term, is the potential "commoditization" of people. As one respondent, Quan Quan, put it,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Feb 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business

why they're going to be compelled to buy." A key issue is who do you do business with initially who lets the venture start moving down the "right" product road... View Details

02 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Spending on Happiness

charities each year. Our research suggests that companies might think about splitting that money up among their employees and empowering them to choose the recipient of those donations. We refer to such View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

05 Apr 2017
Research & Ideas

For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost

that they have. That was a very exciting result for me.” One lesson for women is that they should mention their price expectations up front. “This lowers the initial quote while not negatively affecting any... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Auto; Service

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

funded initiatives by Land O' Lakes in some twenty-three poor countries. In Albania, for example, Land O' Lakes has organized 8,000 women into cooperatives for the production of dairy products, providing... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

03 Dec 2008
What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

one might conclude that efforts to influence human decisions through "nudging" might be effective. However, respondents were far from unanimous in drawing this conclusion. Adnan Younis Lodhi initiated View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

07 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers

have been increasing their footprint of small urban stores. In February, Walmart announced plans to add 270 to 300 small stores during the fiscal year, adding to the existing stable of 346 Neighborhood... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

that they may want to provide a lot of information initially to attract investors in the first place. Then as the platforms mature, they can scale back View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

18 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

they tackle issues of funding and growth. In the meantime, they continue to share the initial results of what may be the largest quantitative... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

offering more ways of tracing and communicating such activities," says Healy. (He wrote an article article on such initiatives in the Harvard Business Review with HBS Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna.) If... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Apr 2019
What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

a confluence of factors that muddy the analysis” such as “the extremely deflationary push of technology,” one that is not measured correctly because of productivity increased by the greater capabilities of... View Details