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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
local retailer because they know its reputation, location, store layout, product selection, and return policies. Retailers can use technology to magnify rather than minimize the benefits of physical location. For example, imagine an... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
theverge.com Satya Nadella, with Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone Olivia Solon, When should a tech company refuse to build tools for the... View Details
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
more from China. If you have a lot of board members who are Vietnamese, you trade a lot with Vietnam." Correlation Versus Causation The team knew, though, that the correlative data did not necessarily prove the causal impact of ethnic ties on international trade... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
evidence to destroy and which to hide. “I had known that the British government had destroyed evidence, but I had always imagined in my mind that it was this big haphazard bonfire type process,” Elkins says. “And it wasn’t, really. It was... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
Imagine you've arrived for a meeting at a corporate campus. But now you discover that the conference room is in another building a quarter mile away. Sure, you could walk there but in the rain? Up purrs an automated people mover, a... View Details
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
it’s hard to detect. But it is limiting our efforts at imagining new solutions to sticky problems and therefore our abilities to solve them. And that’s “best practices.” Too often in government, the search for a new solution begins and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
at all until we cure cancer.'" (Shifting goals constantly, on the other hand, would be an inhibitor. Imagine a meeting at which the leader says something to the effect of, "Do this because I said so, and never mind that I said... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
constructive among the business community; and you had it being a "stand with the poor" among the religious community. Well, both views are important, we do need to stand with the poor; but if you can't imagine any kind of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
It's easy to deliver lousy service. Examples are too numerous to mention and let's not ruin the day, shall we? But imagine this: How about living in a world where companies treat you, as a customer, nicely and it benefits them as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
mental health issues that are entirely manageable, and by making it more costly for them to come forward. "You can imagine a fallout from this tragedy, subjecting everyone from crane operators to Uber drivers to random mental health... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
assumptions. If anything surprises me about this it's that when we discussed the case it was just a few weeks before graduation and you might imagine that the students were beginning to "check out," but this group was fully... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
visualization, a lens to assess existing competitive offerings, the creation of potential customer personas, and imagining a "hero's journey." When combined, these analyses allow designers to conceive elements that will result... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
new case to two sections of The Coming of Managerial Capitalism course, she invited Harpo executives and Winfrey herself to come to class. No one dared to imagine that Winfrey would take the time to attend, but she did. "The students... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
majority-white establishments has fallen from nearly 95 percent of large workplaces in the early 1970s to just over 70 percent in recent years. Meanwhile, the share of establishments employing a majority of minorities has grown. So, whites aren’t View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
people imagining imminent death. Study 1 revealed that blog posts of near-death patients with cancer and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis were more positive and less negative than the simulated blog posts of nonpatients—and also that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
together, they can be overwhelming and, frankly, mind-numbing. While my comments below are much more nuanced, I thought I would begin with a thought experiment that I've found helpful for simplifying the relevant issues. Imagine if you... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
Working PapersValuation when Cash Flow Forecasts Are Biased Author:Richard S. Ruback Abstract This paper focuses adaptations to the discount cash flow (DCF) method when valuing forecasted cash flows that are biased measures of expected cash flows. I View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=108012 GE's Imagination Breakthroughs: The Evo Project Harvard Business School Case 907-048 In September 2003, Jeff Immelt challenged the business leaders at GE to come up... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
where most players are losing money but capturing the imagination of the industry. But it's unclear how you make money on Wi-Fi. For example, the service-provider model would be difficult, he said, because it would be hard to create... View Details