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- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
Pontal, PPPs could be replicated throughout the SFV, transforming the historically poor region into an agribusiness hub, as well as being a model for the rest of the world.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
these two relationships may operate in a circular fashion. Second, we consider whether advertising these benefits of charitable giving—asking people to give in order to be happy—may have the perverse consequence of decreasing charitable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
the board take into account? Bagley: The Business Roundtable is to be commended for its clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the outflow of funds from... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
competitor without anyone being the wiser. Working from home has facilitated searches. Employees didn’t have to close the door and hold hushed phone conversations with recruiters (not that such efforts ever fooled anyone). At home and... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
and nutrition and readiness to learn in schools is also well established. Forthcoming revisions to the Millennium Development Goals are expected to again highlight the importance of disease prevention and health care to the global... View Details
- 28 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
B2B Branding: Does it Work?
company websites worldwide to present a consistent face to stakeholders is the best way to get control of marketing communications that may have become too decentralized. Why should brand-building be important to B2B CEOs? First, most B2B... View Details
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
contribute to real—not the measured kind of—productivity. Some will argue that the Metaverse is little more than a place in which misfits can escape their own U-Stor-Its. Before assuming that, remember that this will be a virtual world of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
Think Team Stars don't shine alone. As Harvard Business School's Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee reveal in new research, it is imperative that top performers as well as their managers take into account the quality of colleagues.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
still had to decide what to do about employee bonuses. Since Mercadona did not meet its 2008 targets, the company policy was that no one—not even top management—would get a bonus. But Roig knew that his employees worked hard and well in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
capital processes to create value for its peripheral technologies. If there were promising technologies within Xerox that were not being utilized in Xerox's businesses, XTV provided a new path for them to enter the market. If that... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
to the following phase? Would you be able to predict what the fourth phase might be? A: One thing that I noticed in exploring the history of these risk management policies is that the basic goals policymakers were pursuing changed rather... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
shopper as well, he or she would receive an inferior service. Then as well as now, the more a shopper spends at a particular store, the better that retailer can offer specific value propositions that competitors can't match. Promiscuous... View Details
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
New Year, New Habits
Good Habit Psychological nudges can be a cost-effective way for governments to get citizens to do the right thing. Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful Research at Harvard Business School takes a unique approach to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
downswing) was 30 percent over the last three years, 26 percent over the last five years and 16 percent over the last ten years. This compares favorably with the S&P at 10 percent, 7 percent, and 8 percent, and even well against... View Details
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
strategic rationale of branding and its importance to competing effectively on the demand side of the economy. In a young market, he realized, consumers had to be able to identify a particular product's source, functional attributes, and... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
- 29 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Global Change in the Built Environment
innovation, especially in the life sciences in areas such as stem cell research, requires buildings that must be flexible and readily converted to new and different uses. What will be published or other... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
examine if it can be implemented in different contexts and across academic cultures, structures, and traditions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51496 Spring 2016 Journal of Applied Corporate Finance ESG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
for Kaplan, and became aware of the need for high quality repurposing and packaging of content for the school market. Beyond that, Kim was drawn to education. It's a huge industry with many challenges, as well as View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
existing corporate transport and storage partners to implement a new strategy of moving bulk produce to remote areas, as well as serving its traditional outlets. SecondBite also found different ways to serve food to people in isolation,... View Details
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company's Deep Smarts Dorothy Leonard, Walter Swap, and Gavin Barton Bank of America has recognized the need to ensure that leaders get off to a fast start as well as the need to reduce the high rate of... View Details