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- 05 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures
failures, nor does it affect their perception of the person’s status. “Even after revealing their struggles or failures, high achievers still look good,” Brooks says. She cautioned that this effect works only for people who have reached at View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?
down from almost $18 billion to $17 billion. That comes out to sales of about $150 per square foot, which is probably in the lower third of department store sales, if not the lowest. In contrast, competitors like Macy's and Kohl's have... View Details
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
appreciate as well." A Complementary Research Method Finally, some teams went the extra mile by making themselves extreme consumers. A group of students working on developing a new rice cooker conducted the usual surveys of consumers in Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
ISPs all offer IPv4 transit. Transition raises the question of who goes first. ISPs have hesitated to offer IPv6 service because there's not much demand. Users (and end-user networks like companies and universities) aren't demanding IPv6 because, at View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
workplace, at least to some extent. Organizations understand that they must become more diverse, equitable, and inclusive places, and that they must reach out to people as individuals of different backgrounds, engage with them on their... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 05 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?
challenge, Lal says. Pricing It Right Retail pricing is a high art, and Johnson is starting from scratch at Penney, replacing frequent sales—the company had 590 of them in 2011—with "Fair and Square everyday pricing." When outlining the... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
fund. A hedge fund investor must have at least $1.5 million in net worth to invest. The funds are regulated little and do not report their activities, trades, and balances. The smaller investor cannot play this game successfully. He or... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
innovation in ways that obviate its inherent disruptive energy. It takes an innovation from a circumstance in which its unique features are valuable to a circumstance in which its unique features are a liability. Cramming is like trying to stuff a View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
competitiveness strategy needs to cover both export-oriented and local industries. And it needs to take into account that in the export-oriented sector policy choices have to be made with a much stronger view on policies in places in other locations. Competitiveness... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
of organizational capabilities, technological innovation through R&D, problem solving, knowledge, and continuous learning—investment in human capital and technology that only firms could generate. Chandler placed the issue of managerial coordination View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
others. That’s counterproductive, at least given the rhetoric of open offices. Architects aren’t clueless to this, of course. It’s just that the cocktail of other considerations, like cost per square foot... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
old, on average. Lab leaders spend a great deal of their energy recruiting the right people for their lab, nurturing a portfolio of interesting projects, and raising money. Most principal investigators, even the most successful ones in the world, spend at View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Steve Jobs Legacy
spurned because he is so harsh and demanding. He is in turn betrayed by his closest ally (John Sculley), but ultimately the clarity of his vision and charisma triumph, and he transforms the world. The transformation in communications he creates gives View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
a constructive identification result where the causal price parameter can be expressed as a function of the covariance of unobserved shocks. The function is estimated efficiently by the output of ordinary View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
JCI is facing decisions regarding implementation of its business strategy, wondering if now is the time to diversify its service offerings. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=805119 Kendall View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
micrograms of total suspended particulates per cubic meter, yet the World Health Organization establishes 90 as a maximum safe level (Berlin's level is 50). Over 25,000 square kilometers of land were deforested in Brazil each year from... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
share to succeed; targeting a minority of consumers with a distinctive product is often more profitable than an all-things-to-all-people approach. But, in the world of representative democracy, you have to be the market share leader, scoring at View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
decades, the system may have worked better than ever for the constituencies that it was built to serve best: primary voters, donors, and lobbyists for special interests, including businesses. Unfortunately for the American public, most View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
focuses on the most sensational scams (e.g., Enron, Bernard Madoff), less attention is given to more prevalent "ordinary" unethical behavior-unethical actions committed by people who value morality but behave unethically when faced with an opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
as big an impact on strategy as corporate-level managers. One of the examples we use in the book is Intel. While the corporate office continued to conceive of Intel as a memory chip company, an operating rule in their manufacturing organization (to maximize gross... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace