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- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract New industries sparked by technological change are characterized by high technological, market, and competitive uncertainty. In this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
by society, rather than by the parents themselves. A third framework would relate to equity. As a society, we need to think about what fairness means in this realm. Is the ability to reproduce a basic human right? Is it part of medical... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
each of these indices of safety and performance, they were exemplars of the company's efforts to create a new kind of offshore operating environment. Our discussions with senior managers led us to believe that organizational features of... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
surgical team, the overall care cycle is crucial. Unless the patient's problem is accurately diagnosed, the patient is properly prepared, and recovery and rehabilitation are managed well, patient results will suffer. Indeed, the impact of... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
Hershey- Hershey.' The machine, of course, had no ability to learn what he was doing, whereas a frequent shopper program can do much more subtle things. If you were a regular user of, say, a skin cream, and a competitor wanted to launch a... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
aeronautic plant, I demonstrate how an implicitly negotiated leniency between management and workers around the use of company materials and tools, on company time, to produce artifacts for personal use, enhances workers' identities. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
largely by scale alone." Several respondents offered an explanation for these phenomena. Typical was Rahul Sharma's comment: " . . . these high executive compensation packages are . . . necessitated by the reduced 'lifespans' of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
Office of Education at USAID. Christensen's influential book was not about AIDS; it described companies that were well managed yet were blindsided by rapid advances from unexpected challengers. Yet HIV and AIDS also have that potential to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
language originally intended to inform an investor, which now protects the offerers. —D. Quinn Mills "While some analysts insist that Quattrone believed in honest research, others say he tried to bully them. `I'll have you out of here Monday morning if you say... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
Society to Create Competitive Advantage Harvard Business School Case 307-076 Focuses on the experience of China's largest shirt manufacturer in managing various aspects of government relations in China. Identifies a wide variety of social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
alternative paths to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in skill, but caste affinity to the politician's party base also helps secure important positions. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the choice of both competitive actions and organizational design, the paper makes an attempt at bringing economic theory and management strategy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
center of much discussion. The advice most often provided to managers is to weave the brand into the most potent popular culture trends. Recently, consultants and ad agencies began emphasizing the reverse: recommending that View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
working in the welfarist normative tradition should include nonwelfarist principles in how they judge economic policy. The key idea behind this argument is that the world is too complex, and our ability to model it too limited, for us to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
appears to be a trail of former executives of Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft. (I specifically referred to heroes in my question, because potential heroines like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer have just recently risen to high levels in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
and high performers draw on them less. NEXT UP: NEW COLLABORATION TOOLS Not all intermittency is gone, despite management trends and collaboration tools pushing the always-on ethos. Sprints used by agile teams are an example of... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
it has proved beneficial. "Markets have been able to use the information to assess companies more effectively, managers have improved internal processes, and the internal control testing has become more cost-effective over... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Collis and Akiko Kanno “Tokio Marine, Japan's leading insurance company, has spent nearly two decades building a global footprint in different insurance businesses. As the company becomes majority non-domestic it has to make a choice of what organisation structure to... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
business executives who attended the symposium to discuss how to address inequality issues and encourage greater diversity in the workplace. Held on the Harvard Business School campus on March 31 and April 1, the symposium was... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
capital firm Accel Partners; Susan L. Decker (HBS MBA '86), president of Yahoo! Inc.; and Eric Kim (HBS MBA '81), senior vice president and general manager of Intel Corporation's Digital Home Group. The first computer, the ENIAC, cleared... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace