Infrastructure As A Service - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

strategy would be a very risky move Ryan Raffaelli: We often define radical innovations as "competency-destroying," meaning that they render all related products and services... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Electronics; Retail; Health

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

destroy value by adding administrative costs and leads to structures involving health plans and providers and other actors, which are misaligned with patient value. In a world of zero-sum competition, for example, providers will... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

robust direct link between CSR and financial performance” It is true that in areas such as environmentally sustainable practices, customers have been willing to pay responsible producers a premium for... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

but only by the firms that have employee longevity and a valued ... way of life." This may not mean retaining everyone, however, as Horacio Cavallero suggests in commenting that "I have always... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

nature of cases is changing as well, with more cases focusing on international and global issues, as compared to single-country cases that are easier for a faculty member to do... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

Gridlock has unfortunately become a way of political life in the nation's capital. But as of midnight on September 30, things went from bad to worse with the shutdown of funding for the federal government.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

28 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates

interactions, Frost and Norton are also exploring the social implications of people seeking relationships online and the possibility for technology to influence the initial tone and trajectory of relationships. One obstacle they noticed is that the main dating sites... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Publishing

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

factors like chauvinism. They mostly failed. But in failing to find a quantifiable explanation, they succeeded to challenge a commonly held notion that the corporate gender gap can be attributed to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

people with different backgrounds for a portion of their work. Giving people a common task, especially a meaningful one, so that they depend on one another to accomplish it, is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

with first-line employees every day will have a much better sense of how their businesses are running, and their presence will be highly motivating and even inspiring. As a... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

video case studies of laid-off workers, as well as a couple of technical notes for students—one focusing on best practices for managers as they... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), allowing businesses to cite religious freedom as a defensible reason to deny service to a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

created by the parties' relational, substantive, and procedural acts, we call these six forms improvisations. Just as each musical improvisation plays on an established melody or a set chord progression, the... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

As every company knows, employees are its greatest resource. It's more than a shame, then, that many workers are either not encouraged or afraid to speak up and communicate ideas at work. Employers are... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

This confirmed the rationale back in 1970 for PARC's charter as a separate research center. As Robert Adams, then a Xerox senior vice president,... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

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

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