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- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
domestic bank operating in more than 20 states from 2002 to 2006. In addition to proving what earlier models only hinted at—that new challengers offering high levels of service can siphon off the best customers of long-standing incumbents—the researchers View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
that " we will need to think deeply about how to ensure these crowds we are tapping into (through information networking) are given sufficient opportunities to learn and to properly feel engaged." Both achievements and failures... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
promise to his father, putting the lessons he had learned to good use as he oversaw the family's operations in Fargo. But after three years, he was ready for a change. One possibility was a job offer in New York City with an international... View Details
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
extremely tight coordination and the transfer of learning between those who design and those who manufacture. If you do not understand the production environment, you have a harder time designing the product. In these settings, there are... View Details
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
surprised to learn that a student who worked in the U.S. pulp industry was asked by his co-workers to punch them out later than they actually finished work. Management apparently was aware of this practice and allowed it: a prime example,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
always like it, but I explained to them that they ought to have pride enough in their jobs to learn about this piece of equipment and what it did." He created a simple analogy to drive home the need for accurate measurement: If you... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
disclosure. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50424 forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning By: Chalfin, Aaron, Oren... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
number of challenges. He had learned a great deal from Military.com and Affinity Labs' first launches, but in the case of each new community was faced with how best to construct the vertical and attract a sufficiently large audience.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
senior corporate manager and a highly regarded teacher of future leaders. He cites, for example, lessons he learned working with former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack. Among other things, they included the abilities to listen,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
build a scholarly community that reflects what is happening in the broader world while creating new learning materials for students and practitioners." Iansiti and Lakhani's MBA elective course Digital Innovation and Transformation... View Details
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
The past 10 years have seen some level of this direct marketing model bear out. But according to an HBS working paper to be published in the Journal of Interactive Marketing, consumers are using technology to learn about marketers, rather... View Details
- 01 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
are HBS endeavors to connect in a deeper way with academics and businesses. "It goes beyond learning about a particular kind of company and region of the world. Think about two decades from now," said Clark. "If we were to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Markets Authors:Charles Dhanaraj and Tarun Khanna Publication:Academy of Management Learning & Education 10, no. 4 (December 2011) Abstract Economic growth in the Western world increasingly depends on meaningful engagement with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
expressed support for the RFRA. “We didn’t find any evidence that people who were opposed to Cook’s view were less likely to purchase from Apple after learning of his view,” Toffel says. Of course, it’s possible that this loyalty was due... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
and complex matter. All over the world, businesses are learning to deal with a more diverse workforce. If Harvard Business School is to continue as a leader in business education, we have to address this issue here first. And if we figure... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
Every firm has two strategies, we learn early on in the pages of One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making. "Explicit" strategy is the one you read about in your company's planning memos and PowerPoint slides.... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
software patents. These classified patents were then used to train a machine learning algorithm to identify among millions of patents those that were software related. Once software and non-software patents were separated, the researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
productive in it. On the other hand, phenomena that didn’t live up to expectations, at least for many years, were improvements in productivity, to the extent they can be measured. There are many explanations. We had to learn how to use... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
Piskorski with information about its members, covering user demographics such as age, gender, height, and body type. The data also included usage patterns—how users learned about one another's profiles, how many profiles they viewed on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
do not have the time for that." As you said, good judgment in thinking fast or slow is an important characteristic of outstanding leadership. Can it be taught or does it have to be acquired over time? How do leaders learn how to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett