Theatre And Community - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

Soviet Communism when Kremlinologists would take a look at who's standing on the Kremlin Wall. Q: There's a pecking order there. A: Right. And they would try to decode who has power by literally seeing where... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

06 Mar 2006
What Do You Think?

The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?

hardware or software that filters communications or facilitates their monitoring to a government that is likely to use it for both purposes. For Yahoo and Google, among others, it gets even more complex. It... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

23 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

square-foot retail complex, a hotel, and the Kodak Theatre, the future home of the Academy Awards. The second project was a mixed-use development, located on Sunset and Vine. This property had suffered a bad... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

businesses are the very fabric of our communities, all across the country,” Mills said. “Days matter at this critical time. If we lose these small businesses, our communities are going to look very different when all is said View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

and then go further to consider ways the domain of innovation itself has changed. We suggest that because of fundamental shifts in communication and information processing... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

Working Papers Using By-Product Synergy for Competitive Advantage Author: Deishin Lee Abstract We study how a manufacturer can leverage by-product synergy for competitive advantage. By focusing on the economic impact to the firm and the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

Public Sector seminar series, which runs through May, is designed to induce lively conversation, build a community of scholars, and create a research agenda exploring the possible role of the private sector... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Aug 2019
What Do You Think?

Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?

among all the cases I’ve written and one of the all-time best sellers at HBS. It’s about strategic planning at a hospital that does one thing, fixing inguinal hernias. It illustrates a set of ideas that could be presented in less time by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

with the results that NAFTA has produced. But it seems not to have receded in interest among at least one group of readers of this column. The column "What Lies Beyond NAFTA?," with a focus on future responses to issues concerning migration between Mexico... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

wasn't quite ready for showtime. Whether or not Russia goes the way of Great Britain or Greece depends on a number of factors, starting with the infrastructure of the Games. The resort community of Sochi isn't known for its snow; for... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

business community and its ideas are unleashed on the problem. We may get the gist of this in an upcoming article of his that, according to him, will be titled, "Green Is the New Red, White, View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

27 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Social Network Marketing: What Works?

it's important to understand both who influences purchase decisions in online communities and which groups of users can be influenced. “Viral campaigns truly leverage the network aspect of these social... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising; Publishing; Retail

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

Siemens, the Deutsche Bank, Dresdner, Bosch, BASF, and so on, all managed to somehow reconstruct and reinvent themselves after these upheavals. So I intended to write a long-term study about a company or... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

bottom-up strategic initiatives, but also injects meaning into individual effort. It means articulating company values that not only align organizational effort with the overall enterprise objectives, but also define a community to which... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

Reinhardt called this a cautionary tale about the risks of differentiating your product in the marketplace. For differentiation to make business sense, he said, you need a willingness to pay on the part of the customers and a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

do in recognizing and then communicating the user’s commands. Understanding the various levels can help managers focus on the big concepts without getting mired in minutiae. Technology systems consist of... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

May 2018
Case

The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation's Answer Fund

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble

Citation

Educators

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

warm shareholders to the benefits of the risk management tools you suggest? A: Whenever the firm is undertaking new strategic directions, including implementing strategic risk management that may use derivatives, it is wise to communicate... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

focuses on basic scientific discovery, it has identified clinical physicians and scientists in the broad research community as its primary customers. Accordingly, the firm is organized to support pure View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

the doubt as it progresses with the IPO, GM must not only follow through with products that deliver higher quality and reliability but also clearly communicate these advances to consumers, even If that means... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

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