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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
people take the course solely for their own edification. For others, spreading learning throughout their organization is critical, and they need to know how to do it. EE: In summary, what are the overriding View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
sufficient consumer demand and investor interest. But they did so knowing that if the company could get its product right, grow its sales and geographical footprint, and... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 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
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
a white American male, I recognize that throughout my life I have been the beneficiary of positive assumptions about my abilities and my potential—assumptions that did not benefit most of my female... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
In a recent case study, professor Alan MacCormack and research associate Jay Wynn swung for the moon—Mars, actually. After two high-profile missions to Mars failed in 2000, MacCormack wanted to understand the organizational View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
Second, because display ads drive consumers down the funnel so that they click more on search ads and eventually become a customer, this process also increases overall ad cost due to additional search clicks. Therefore, the View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
promising and profitable. This should benefit small businesses who, despite having to deal with higher interest rates in some cases, could find more transparency in product and... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Role of Business Leaders in Sustaining Market Capitalism
for entrepreneurial businesses to market products/services to low-income people, providing a new source of profits and benefitting society. Greater emphasis is needed on employees View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 22 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage
world output and thus consumption and living standards. On the basis of a simple model with just two countries and two goods, he showed that every country—even one enjoying an... View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Moss
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
cross-listed firms that violate the law. What can be done to rectify this situation? Doesn't this undercut one of the supposedly main benefits of listing in this country? Jordan Siegel: The SEC faces two primary challenges. One is that it... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
discovered that this compulsory secrecy program was in place during the war, and after the war it transitioned to a peacetime policy that persists to this day,” Gross says. “Everybody in the system benefits... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
also really didn’t have any idea what I was getting myself into.” The case, known as Mutua and Others versus the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, was filed by five detention camp survivors. Thousands of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
way to combine the best of both? Yes, if marketers are willing to dig below superficial benefits and attributes to connect products and services to emotions View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 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
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
reporting of financial and nonfinancial performance in order to improve sustainable strategy. HBS senior lecturer Robert G. Eccles and coauthor Michael P. Krzus explain the View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
(iStock) iStock SUMMING UP Who Will Call the Shots in Stakeholder Capitalism? At one time in my checkered academic career I studied, researched, and published papers about interorganizational management. Specifically, I was interested in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
Boston into lockdown, existing clients cancelled and new clients stopped calling; Sandra’s and Vida Verde’s work came to a standstill. Together, they decided to use some of the cooperative’s funds to View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
significant economic development of 2013. Use the "Comments" link to tell us what and why. Most Popular Stories In 2012 1. Clayton Christensen's "How Will You Measure Your Life?" Published: May 9, 2012 World-renowned... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
a number of commodities, in the process benefiting those countries that could supply them. The issue is that we may be reaching the limits to the outsourcing trend. For example, almost 100 percent of textiles in this country are now... View Details