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10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

blame game engulfed politicians and S&P itself. In the midst of all this angst, four Harvard Business School faculty members offer their views on what went wrong and what needs to be done to right the US ship of state. bo Becker,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

02 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?

overall, the companies that were successful had much higher performance. “Putting it into baseball terms, investors who relied on their gut feel had a lower batting average, but more home runs,” Huang says. In the current paper, she... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

21 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Parable of the Bungled Baggage And the Unhappy Customer

Late-arriving luggage proved to be a parable about customer service for Harvard Business School professor W. Earl Sasser. In this excerpted transcript from a new video CD presentation, Sasser discusses how a seemingly harmless budget trim... View Details

Keywords: by W. Earl Sasser

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

managers still need to seek other drivers of creativity. I Want My Functional Experts To Influence High-level Strategy Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer New research by HBS professor Anette Mikes and colleagues looks into how... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

of home buyers, investors, and regulators. Using the latest research in psychology and behavioral economics, they present a new theory of belief formation that explains why the financial crisis came as such a shock to so many people—and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

players who aren't yet significantly impacted by ecommerce and have some runway; Home Depot for example. They use the omnichannel strategy to help their businesses thrive instead of just survive. Home Depot... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

14 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

prompting a takeover, than at engaging in long-term corporate governance or operating issues. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-004.pdf Correlated Equilibrium and Nash Equilibrium as an Observer's Assessment of the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

consumer trend or technological development may be emerging in Germany or Japan, not your home market," Bartlett says. "Having eyes and ears around the world is critical, as is having the response capabilities to tap into the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

considered to have fixed national identities. While firms have reallocated various activities around the world in response to value creation opportunities, they have largely retained their national identities, and their headquarter activities remained bundled in their... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

Mums the Word! Cross-national Relationship between Maternal Employment and Gender Inequalities at Work and at Home By: McGinn, Kathleen L., Mayra Ruiz Castro, and Elizabeth Long Lingo Abstract—Our research considers how childhood exposure... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008

developed a revolutionary video pill for imaging the small bowel in the gastro-intestinal tract. The development has required the integration of a wide variety of technologies. GI founder and CEO Gabriel Meron must determine GI's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

Elephants By: Okada, Isao, and Stephen A. Greyser Abstract—In recent years, the total spending on hosting the Olympic Games has snowballed. The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games spent $40 billion on infrastructure... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

November 2017
Teaching Note

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455. On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details

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15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

when several other similar services with big name sponsors such as Google have failed to gain much traction? Apple has a chicken-and-egg game to solve. Consumers won't use the service unless it's in use at a compelling number of stores.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

14 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 14

founded Netflix to provide a home movie service that would do a better job satisfying customers than the traditional retail rental model. But as it encountered challenges it underwent several major strategy shifts, ultimately developing a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

All the video calls are especially exhausting,” Whillans says. Take time off, if you can. The demands of work haven’t slowed for many. And even in the best of times, people who report greater “time scarcity”—those who feel overwhelmed by... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

17 Apr 2017
Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

The simple answer: Give customers a good reason to keep using the platform. For instance, Rover.com providers a calendaring system for pet sitters. For owners, the company creates a music video out of the photographs taken by the sitter... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service

15 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

group were women who were just about to step off [the career track] or who were at home with young children thinking, "I am going to come back but not for three years, so I want a strategy to bridge the gap, keep my skills current,... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

afford to pass on any opportunity, no matter how small. They see business much like a game of PacMan—you can bag big fish only by learning to swallow small ones. The best entrepreneurs also recognize that trying out a business model on a... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

home removes the usual social signals about when to eat or drink. Don’t rely on feeling hungry or thirsty! Put meals and hydration times on your to-do list or set alarms if necessary. One of us recently witnessed a colleague pass out from... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?

The Parable of the Bungled Baggage And the Unhappy Customer

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

First Look: August 14, 2007

The Death of the Global Manager

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January 19, 2016

First Look: August 26, 2008

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

Reinventing Best Buy

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

First Look: October 14

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

Women Find New Path to Work

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

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