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12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

that hold back progress in resource mobilization research. We then propose a path ahead for future research guided by two overarching goals. First, we advocate for a process perspective, focusing attention on how an individual actor’s... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 May 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

education from Classes VI - VIII, a second phase of two years of vocational training, and a third phase of asking the children to pay back any loans with accrued interest. We intend to offer the product through a series of partnerships... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services

13 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw

targeting credit bureau Equifax and the UK’s National Health Service, which could possibly have been prevented if organizations had run available software updates sooner. Tracking software vulnerabilities For their study, Greenstein and... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Information Technology; Computer; Web Services

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

up with a new platform and trying to become the new dominant design." Other companies that have attempted mobile payments have run into similar problems. Google Wallet was limited by its compatibility with different types of phones... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

which has employed team acquisition as a successful growth strategy for many years. The Quaker-founded firm’s compensation policies, strategic planning, consensus-based decision making, and even office décor reflect its culture. This firm knows its culture, View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

said: Julie Battilana: Put people and the planet at economy's core My hope is that President Biden and his team will help all of us rebuild strong democratic foundations, and place human beings and the planet back at the core of our... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

Act)-leveraged effective federal programs that already existed, while also taking action in some new areas. With the Recovery Act, the federal government significantly expanded its role as a guarantor of small business capital, particularly through the Small Business... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

account 20 percent of the makeup of parliaments worldwide, a figure that holds steady in the U.S. Senate as well. They hold just 26 percent of full professorships across the country—and fewer at HBS, where 22 percent of the faculty are women—and View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

died and his family was running out of funds, he said that "All I had in mind was to make enough money so that my mother would never have to work again." His first job was as an office boy in an insurance firm. His... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

Russian authorities, ironically, on charges of embezzlement. The charges, which date back to 2009, allege that he defrauded the Russian region of Kirov. "Rospil.info" discusses the charges and considers whether they are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

19 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

earthquake and Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina. In certain cases catastrophe insurance costs more than doubled and took eight years to work their way back down. This year,the earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand, and the devastating floods... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services

19 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

variable store traffic. What Mercadona shows is that all this torture isn't necessary. You can offer employees stability and still run a very successful supermarket chain." The Specialist Knows The Mercadona case, which Ton has... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

we’re good at and enjoy, we may discover that all the meetings we used to hold in the office sucked up too much time or that a trip to the children’s museum wasn’t the key to bringing the family joy. “Rather than fighting for ways to get View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Academic business research typically travels one-way. From government agencies, scholars gather and process data—say on workplace safety or environmental pollution—perform analysis, and publish the results. Rarely, however, do they take their findings View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

George C. Lodge

Spearheads of Democracy (inspired by his Labor Department duties, which had taken him to Latin America, Africa, and Asia), he decided to leave the School to run for the U.S. Senate as the Republican candidate against Edward M. Kennedy.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

23 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

client-facing people when service problems are systematically tolerated. The cape starts to feel heavy when it's overused. Great service, it turns out, is not made possible by running the business harder and faster on the View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service

04 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

they can relocate their headquarters to a hub, as GE recently did (but make them much smaller). A less expensive strategy is to create an innovation lab or corporate outpost in a talent cluster, as Walmart did with Walmart Labs. The most conservative strategy is to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. In particular, we run a horserace between two distinct economic forces: location fundamentals and agglomeration economies. We find that location fundamentals,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

core activities in any business. Without a good customer acquisition process, you can’t grow.” A professor at Harvard Business School for 11 years, Cespedes left for an equal time to run a firm, where he learned firsthand the importance... View Details