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- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
women back in the workplace. Now, researchers add a new twist: They can even cause women to question their own abilities. How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely Letting independent workers choose their locations can boost... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
brand.” Deighton and Kornfeld suggested that the benefits of lightening up the marketing effort might range from increased sales to lower-cost recruiting (as prospective employees get a different picture of... View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
low-wage workers.” Another point of view rejects the notion that such a competition exists. David Wittenberg commented, “Workers don’t ‘compete for your profits,’ they contract to provide services for a wage shareholders have the right to expect the company to be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
however, succeeded in completing their MBAs with honors. They used the phenomenon as an incentive to succeed, setting high standards for performance and worrying about being under-prepared. They were (and are) achievers, the kind we could... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
intermediary raises concerns about who will end up owning the famous pieces, and whether or not those owners will be artistic benefactors willing to lend them to museums for the benefit of the public good.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
organizational energy released / management time and attention invested. Q: Why do managers benefit from "calculating" the results of this device? A: Not all that long ago, life was different for most of us.... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
Internet (mobile) businesses and users (have) already evaluated the benefits (and) analysts' valuations can be more predictable " Shankar N. Mandapaka added: "The earlier dot.com bubble was due to... View Details
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
Teixeira, which identifies the ingredients necessary to create online videos so compelling that viewers will not only want to watch them but also actively seek them out and share them with friends, family, View Details
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
America. In a nutshell, Republicans are defending deficits because they fuel economic growth. Democrats are justifying them to foster huge investments in social programs [potentially such as the Green New Deal] that produce social View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
who are confident and determined" to add to the near-term cost base for the long-term benefit of the organization. Byron also took leadership to task, pointing out the lack of "deep knowledge of... View Details
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
benefits of digital transformation and platform plays, or deliver a differentiated end-to-end customer experience. Another challenge we’ve seen for managers is that if they want to attract View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
relationships with the short- and long-run benefits that each generates will help companies make informed decisions about how to serve their customers more profitably in the future. Probing The Process... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
in those areas. However, those incremental sales were offset by lower margins and return on equity, negating the benefits of those higher sales. "This evidence suggests that multinationals that tolerate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
this category has lower performance along traditional metrics but offers new benefits around convenience, customization, and simplicity that fit squarely with a customer's behavior patterns View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
Act is an interesting piece of legislation," said Reinhardt. "The federal government has to do everything it can to reduce the probability of extinction. It's explicitly prohibited in the statute from balancing costs and View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
forecasting can be more accurate and replenishment more timely, and thus markdowns, shrink costs, and working capital needs are reduced. Online fulfillment View Details
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
on elections occurring in April. “I suspect both Republicans and Democrats could benefit from this,” he says, “in fact, it’s hard to say who would benefit more.” One thing is... View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
favors so-called "barbell strategies" in which a portion of the business portfolio is created to guarantee survival in the event of a Black Swan so that the more innovative and entrepreneurial remainder of the portfolio can be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
the computer memory industry are that many different companies manufacture both memory and computers, and that computer makers and consumers View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
Since the 1990s, the Balanced Scorecard system has cut a path in business as a more rigorous way to measure performance by quantifying what had been considered intangible assets, such as human capital, information, and culture. The system... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace