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- 29 Sep 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property
percent over the 2002-2007 period. Since 2000, the annual release of new albums has more than doubled, and worldwide feature film production since 2003 is up by more than 30 percent. How markets for complementary View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
the "comp," or complimentary benefit, which can include a free dinner at a hotel restaurant, reduced-priced tickets and good seats to a show, or even free lodging in deluxe accommodations. In short, casino... View Details
- 14 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition
well. As a result, these organizations staff very carefully, hiring for attitude and then training for skills, whether the business is fast food or cutting-edge medical organizations such as the Mayo Clinic. These are not View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
for evaluating mergers and acquisitions. Assumes that the criterion of a good deal is that it creates value for shareholders, i.e., has a positive deal NPV. Looks at the deal NPV from both the buyer's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
happened was good or bad, but whether or not much better results could have been achieved with better leadership. This is a very important question to be addressed to business leadership also. We conclude that America has not had very... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
The devastating Japanese earthquakes sent aftershocks of another kind to the economy: the potential disruption of the flow of goods from Japanese suppliers to US high-tech manufacturers. But the Obama administration View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Profile
Fereshteh Zeineddin
events introduced me to a number of new industries and opportunities. I became interested in exploring opportunities in the luxury goods space and was introduced by a classmate... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 07 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
How One Organization Increased Their Internship Yield
confusion. “Consider Sara,” says Lauren Murphy, Director of Career and Professional Development at HBS. “Sara” is not a real student, but a hypothetical illustration of a real phenomenon Murphy has frequently witnessed. “She’s been... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
could merge, none of that could have happened and the story would have been worse for it. At Pixar, people knew the heart of a good movie was a good story, View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
percent from 6.9 billion today. Implicit in the cross-sector gathering was this: Unprecedented demand on the planet's resources requires new solutions and a heavy reliance on strong public-private partnerships. Clean water, for example,... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
have typically fallen into HR's domain. The prevailing wisdom has been that if HR took care of those often intangible "soft" issues, line managers and executives would be free to focus on "hard" business issues View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
recommended by theory, top marginal income tax rates have declined, marginal income tax schedules have flattened, redistribution has risen with income inequality, and commodity taxes are more uniform View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
206-046 Using a comprehensive and simple example of a firm exposed to foreign exchange risk, interest rate risk, and commodity price risk, shows how to use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
and a vulnerable position in the labor market. External focus makes them more "portable" in terms of making a positive move, but can cause problems if they want to progress within their own organization, because you need a solid... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
Summing Up Summarizing responses to questions about a topic as complex as thinking slow requires that one think slow. So I wrote this column, slept on it, rewrote it, and still have problems with it. But deadlines, as they so often do,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
company. The company specialized in providing its clients with software used for transaction processing and risk management in various commodity markets. Triple Point Technology had grown substantially in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
with Lula and had to decide what to do to attenuate these political pressures. What could Agnelli do to deal with political pressures at home? Was the purchase of large vessels to ship iron ore to Asia a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
Gamble and IBM have learned to do this—others can learn as well. In a similar way there is concern about loss of secrecy. The reality in most industries is that most firms have a reasonably good idea about... View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
they are doing for the environment," Rangan says. Profit Doesn't Always Follow Yet some companies make the mistake of drawing an overzealous connection between social responsibility and business goals, believing that being a View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman