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- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
achieving your goals. He outlines specific steps and exercises to help you understand yourself more deeply, take control of your career, and build your capabilities in a way that fits your passions and aspirations. Are you doing what... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
competitive advantage—by operating at a lower cost, by commanding a premium price, or by doing both. Cost and price advantages can be achieved in two ways. One is operational effectiveness—doing the same things your competitors do but... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
companies has become available in the past 10 years. Myth Number 5: ESG adds value almost entirely by limiting risks. Reality: Along with lower risk and a lower cost of capital, companies with high ESG scores have also experienced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Abstract—We investigate how the scientific community's perception of a scientist's prior work changes when one of his articles is retracted. Relative to non-retracted control authors, faculty members who experience a retraction see the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
consumers in the dining area. On average, restaurants spend 30 percent of their revenue on labor. With increasing focus on fair wages and legislated wage increases, restaurants may easily exceed that average. Moreover, restaurants spend roughly equivalently for View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
level regulating against outsourcing, controlling borders to discourage labor migration, or training for "quality"—including attitude and skills as well as other attributes? What do you think? Original Article Over the past... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
cost advantage over integrated mills. But the quality of the steel they produced was inferior. The rebar market at the bottom rung of the industry (rebar is small steel bars made from scrap and used to create reinforced concrete) was the... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
in our data set by non-negotiation organizational research reveals that more open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation article will be cited in organizational studies, after controlling for other, previously... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
have created, balancing their generosity with the need to keep some of that value for themselves. Achieving this balance may not be as easy as it seems. Keystone organizations must make sure that the value of their platforms, divided by the View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
- 2023
- Article
Towards Bridging the Gaps between the Right to Explanation and the Right to Be Forgotten
By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Satyapriya Krishna and Jiaqi Ma
The Right to Explanation and the Right to be Forgotten are two important principles outlined to regulate algorithmic decision making and data usage in real-world applications. While the right to explanation allows individuals to request an actionable explanation for an... View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; AI and Machine Learning; Decision Making; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Lakkaraju, Himabindu, Satyapriya Krishna, and Jiaqi Ma. "Towards Bridging the Gaps between the Right to Explanation and the Right to Be Forgotten." Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 40th (2023): 17808–17826.
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
and leadership. Results: Seventy-two frontline staff submitted 138 ideas addressing wide-ranging issues including patient experience, cost of care, workflow, utilization, and access. Two hundred forty-five participated in evaluation.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation projects. We analyze the design costs and architectures and communication costs associated with each model. We conclude that innovation by individual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
strategy. Salesmen pushed customers to buy products or services that they might not have otherwise purchased. They were particularly good at introducing new products to customers. For instance, the cost of selling the first electric... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
Snack Foods, located in Austin, Texas, manufactures, markets, and distributes snack foods and frozen treats. The CEO is passionate about maximizing shareholder value and believes in keeping tight control over View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44800 Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract—Minimum capital requirements are a central... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies
Why did a group of Harvard Business School professors become interested in an innovative new heart surgery technique? It turns out that a hospital's operating room provides an excellent controlled arena from which to explore the role that... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
settle in a desired geographic location while retaining a job elsewhere—the best of both worlds for many people. “I see work-from-anywhere as a policy that allows the individual to control her personal geography. And I think that’s why... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
PublicationsConcentrating on Governance Authors:Dalida Kadyrzhanova, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model that integrates agency View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
Public health officials who took to social media to push people to get the COVID-19 vaccine may have wondered if they were screaming into a void. Over the course of the pandemic, health agencies around the world—ranging from the World Health Organization to the Center... View Details