Speed - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Strategy and the Internet

achieving or strengthening a distinctive strategic positioning. Operational Effectiveness. The Internet is arguably the most powerful tool available today for enhancing operational effectiveness. By easing and speeding the exchange of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter

April 2023 (Revised July 2023)
Case

Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco

By: Emily Truelove, Michelle Zhang and Alpana Thapar

Dena Almansoori, the first female and one of the youngest members of the United Arab Emirates-based e&’s leadership team, joined in 2020 just before e& began a strategic transition from being a regional telecommunications company to becoming a global technology... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Culture; Transformation; Technology; Telecommunications; Employee Mobility; Talent; Leading Change; Human Resources; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; United Arab Emirates

Citation

Educators

Purchase

Web

The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

speed of a horse, locomotives compressed weeklong journeys into days. By mid-century, the rails moved people, raw materials, and goods around the country relatively quickly, cheaply and, for the most part, in all seasons and weather. With... View Details

Web

Academics - Health Care

fibrosis. A goal of the program is to draw out some key debates that are more broadly relevant to life sciences, such as: the value of early detection, the pricing of life saving drugs, the incentives for innovation, and the speed of FDA... View Details

06 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn

could get up to speed quickly elsewhere. The bottom line So is it wise in a downturn to save expenses by slashing commissions? Depends, Stanton says. If the workers leave during down months, then cutting compensation might work because... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

18 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

environments.” If central banks had used economic models that account for variations in the speed of firm’s pricing decisions rather than their traditional forecasting tools, policymakers might have detected rising inflation sooner,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

07 Jul 2019
HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

Walmart planned for 500,000 employees to go through Pathways in 2016, the initial rollout was considerably lower; as a result, Walmart needed to revamp some parts of the program to speed up its completion rate. (Its Academies program,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

01 Jun 2024
News

Again and Again

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Jason Holley Whenever he’s presenting to a large audience, Professor Michael Norton likes to pose this question to the crowd: After you get up in the morning, do you brush your teeth first and then shower, or vice versa?... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

08 Feb 2017
HBS Seminar

Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research

Web

Impact - Health Care

research is designed to help ventures at any stage of development across all sectors. Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences The life sciences industry faces significant challenges such as pricing pressures and regulatory issues. Faculty, alumni and students seek to... View Details

21 Mar 2019
HBS Case

The Ferrari Way

car on the market, but the best combination of the two, which makes us the most thrilling. Our concept of performance includes pleasure.” While other sports car manufacturers try to make their cars as light as possible to aid acceleration, for example, Ferrari is not... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

27 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

device industry. That allowed the researchers to evaluate how a recall’s severity and proximity—the degree of product market overlap between recalled and competing products—may stall or speed innovation in a product market. Among their... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies

Research Summary

Automotive Product Development

At present, my primary research focus is studying product development in the auto industry. I am working with Stefan Thomke (HBS) and Takahiro Fujimoto (University of Tokyo) on the 4th Round of the Global Automotive Development Study. The first round of this... View Details

February 2022
Case

NFX Capital and Moov Technologies

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller

In July 2019, James Currier, a general partner at San Francisco-based NFX Ventures, was considering a seed stage investment of $1.5 million in Moov Technologies, a B2B marketplace for used industrial equipment. NFX was a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Network Effects; Marketplace Matching; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Applications and Software; Semiconductor Industry; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco

Citation

Educators

Purchase

30 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date

intelligent as well.” The research, published in the paper It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask: Question-Asking Increases Liking, examined data from online chats and face-to-face speed dating conversations. In addition to Brooks, the coauthors were... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

02 Apr 2020
What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

legal protections in the event of failed experiments? Could this speed up the vaccine development process? Some may conclude that it’s a fool’s errand to look for management lessons from anyone Black Swan. For the rest of us, the question... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp - Research Computing Services

a number of files on the /tmp volume that is local to each compute node. This volume is shared by all jobs on that node, is essential for the health of the node, offers a significant speed advantage over using storage on the network, and... View Details

Research Summary

Output and asset price fluctuations

What are the sources of business cycles? How are these shocks propagated in the economy? Why are their effects so persistent? How can we explain asset price fluctuations? How are shocks transmitted internationally?To study these questions, I have developed a series... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Quantum Leap

initiative, which aimed to develop energy-efficient superconducting supercomputers. At first, Levy envisioned developing superconducting servers that could speed up data center operations while reducing power consumption. But he dropped... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

19 Jan 2024
News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led... View Details

Publications