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- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
with economies of scale in merchandising, marketing, and distribution. To ensure standardization, Wal-Mart sets the span of control for store managers at the "narrow" end of the scale. Although they nominally control their... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
percent year over year, and the National Restaurant Association projected an industry revenue shortfall of $240 billion for the year. Second-order effects of restaurant closures ripple through the American economy, bringing economic pain... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
effectively discuss race, but if they approach it with a sense of openness and learning, they can play an important role in advocating change.” Managers must learn to create safe spaces at work View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Summer 2020
- Article
Venture Capital's Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn
By: Josh Lerner and Ramana Nanda
Venture capital is associated with some of the most high-growth and influential firms in the world. Academics and practitioners have effectively articulated the strengths of the venture model. At the same time, venture capital financing also has real limitations in its... View Details
Lerner, Josh, and Ramana Nanda. "Venture Capital's Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn." Journal of Economic Perspectives 34, no. 3 (Summer 2020): 237–261.
- 24 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Optimal Deterrence when Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid In Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
nations, but the diseases' effects and potential impact on businesses and organizations is only recently coming into stark relief, particularly in Africa and Asia. Approximately 38 million adults and children in Africa and Asia (including... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
for neural networks increase, as does accessibility to off-the-shelf APIs from big tech and academic institutions that help speed up innovation. Entrepreneurs have also learned the wisdom of targeting AI... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee
projects to allow time for reflection and utilize meeting time most effectively Encourage employees to “unplug.” Set expectations for standard work times across time zones.... View Details
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
express a high-level set of principles that employees are expected to abide by, but what the court effectively said is, ‘This is akin to marketing material that people don’t... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS
Nick Nicholas, HBS ’64, he convinced me that HBO had the potential to revolutionize the industry. His vision was so compelling that I signed on and didn’t leave for 34 years when I retired and return to... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
Retail and Luxury Goods Conference on April 3. Chadwick noted that while department stores used to be where shoppers went for everything from baby clothes to furniture to power... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff
turbulence, Sucher says. “There’s a tendency to think that our rules, or any way that we interpret the law, is universal,” she says. “It’s just not true.” 2. Reduce costs without cutting people Layoffs can be View Details
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
their artificial reality (AR) annotation products on mobile phones. AT&T, Cisco, and Zoom have enhanced their network capabilities for increased demand in bandwidth. In addition, numerous small businesses like restaurants and home... View Details
- 02 May 2023
- Blog Post
From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job
presence as a DJ on SoundCloud helped me gain a deeper understanding of the problems creators face in the industry, and the limitations of current technical solutions. 2. Use elective coursework to gain a... View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace
stop at hiring, however; effective collaboration along with employee retention and growth are the true goals. To achieve these ends, leaders must create work environments where employees truly feel... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
until we make sure that the treatments and services consumers are getting are effective and affordable, changing the way we consumers pay for the services doesn’t fix anything. What we need is a system of new value View Details
- 07 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook
Network effects can provide an advantage Some products become more competitive the wider the network of customers. For instance, Facebook benefits from the wide user base that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
journals. “Academic research can be helpful, but it tends to be overly complex, hard to digest, and not backed by real quantitative insights from customer populations or engagements,” says Neale-May,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
constraints. A new Glass-Steagall law that segregated commercial banking from other financial activities, or that limited banks’ proprietary trading, would strengthen the financial system, if crafted properly. But it could hardly be... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
books, I'm not with a customer. So bookkeeping is the last thing I want to do." For Cook, that produced an insight that led to the development of QuickBooks, which greatly simplifies small-business... View Details