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- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
be displayed. Making Niche Profitable Zhu's interest in how different revenue models affect content, consumers, and companies generates a number of interesting "what... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
of incumbents so there can be better investments and so we can learn about broader economic phenomena. This is particularly true and interesting in developing economies because they are making big... View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
were launched in 2004; expressions of interest were invited in June 2007, but in July 2009, the government postponed the call for bids just a few hours before deadline.) Taught For The First Time The case... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control
World Nutella Day, held on February 5, inspired more than 40,000 Instagram posts as fans of the chocolate-hazelnut spread shared recipe videos, memes, and selfies with jars. It was free marketing for Nutella maker Ferrero, which almost... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
These practices, just two among many strategies for building intellectual capital, raise interesting questions. Which is best for the health of the organization and the ways in which intellectual capital are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
accelerate the transfer of technology between countries. Given my long-standing interest in the activities of multinational firms, I wanted to see if there was any empirical... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
achieve their goals. I've been especially interested in the pattern of succession in many entrepreneurial firms—specifically, that many founders are replaced by "professional" CEOs early in the... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
the 1960s and forward through the early 1990s so he is able examine the process of economic development of these four economies and their relationships with FDI. Huang is especially View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
generating goodwill in a nonaggressive way. Q: You write a lot about interactions between humans and technology. Are computers the perfect tool for customized marketing? A: The tailoring of messages via computer technology to a person's... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
months some compelling data have been released that give us more insight into cash flow dynamics of America’s small businesses. This month’s JPMorgan Chase Institute’s Cash is King: Flows, Balances and Buffer Days report showed that on... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
how they see their boards, we thought it would be interesting to get the perspective of CEOs and try to understand how they saw their boards. At the end of the day, CEOs are as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2022
- Op-Ed
Hear Me Out: Introverts Can Be Loud and You Might Like Microsoft Teams
We've been encouraging readers to share feedback and observations about Working Knowledge articles by email, resulting in a slew of thoughtful responses. Here are a few comments from June, published with permission: Re: "Extroverts, Your... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
preferred outcome and think in reverse about how to get there. Here are the basic steps: 1. Draw a "map" of the parties who are currently involved and those who might potentially get onboard, along with their View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 04 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?
musings of Machiavelli to the present day. Academic interest in it seems to ebb and flow. But judging from the stack of leadership books and articles on my desk, it is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
It's common in Harvard Business School classrooms to discuss the "pivot," the moment an enterprise changes direction to pursue a new strategy. On a visit to eastern Japan, MBA students talked to Masamichi Ono, CEO of... View Details
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
need to do their part and devote time and attention to aligning their interests and cultivating collaborations across the organization. Only when everyone understands the big picture and feels a part of it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
to want more than one indexer on their hard drive." Rahul Lahiri, vice president of search and product management at Ask Jeeves, said improving the specificity of search results is the key to improving... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
of things that mattered to patients that weren't necessarily the kinds of things that we as clinicians thought about. This was a new idea to us, this idea that, gee, cancer patients aren't always primarily... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
In this three-part series, we start with an overview of why retail experts Rajiv Lal, José B. Alvarez, and Dan Greenberg believe retail is at an inflection point. In Part Two, coming next week, they identify effective strategies for... View Details
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
"Someone asked me why I'm interested in labor in the supply chain. The answer from my head is that we have evidence of how important people are to the total equation. So my future research will definitely... View Details