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- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
is quite a bit in scoping out the right question with them so the community can be of value to them," Lipstein said. "If it's a simple question, there's no reason to crowdsource." DeJulio agreed that framing the question just right — free... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
it may become part of a larger debate in 2006 about added pressures on managers to produce short-term earnings regardless of the impact on the long-term health of the business. In his annual year-end letter to directors, Martin Lipton, a... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
further, the researchers ran the experiment again, except this time they added another twist. Four different fraternities took part, each knowing that the other three were competing, too. Before the experiment, each brother received a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
regularly explore together: (1) Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? (2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
latent or explicit. It involves branding these products and services, communicating their benefits to intermediaries and end consumers, and distributing them. All of these activities involve value creation. In return, producers extract... View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44722 No Taxation without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax By: Pomeranz, Dina Abstract—Claims that the VAT facilitates tax... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
strategic change. The framework contributes by adding a meso lens to research on dynamic capabilities to help scholars better understand how learning that occurs in teams may support entrepreneurial managers in enacting their cognitive... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
“linguistic expats” who live in their home country yet have to give up their native language in the workplace; “cultural expats” or native speakers of the lingua franca who struggle with organizational values that are more easily... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
Internet to market its products or services? Nolan: I do, albeit it's a different experience for the consumer to buy a book from Amazon.com, let's say, than it is from a retailer such as Barnes & Noble. The value View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
with a name, often adding a sequential indicator (PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3), or they can come up with an entirely new name (Nintendo's Wii). Three questions managers should consider when deciding whether brand-name continuation or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
Summing Up "Good attitudes supercharge organizational performance beyond what the skill/talent level would indicate," according to Perry Miles. "Attitude is one of the strongest determinants of performance," added... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
skills development." Other essentials for governments, Donovan said, are a willingness to privatize businesses, and to follow the rule of law "as opposed to the rule of individual parties and special interests." Another is what he termed an appropriate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
value (has) enabled years of laissez faire democracy.” And of course, the Business Roundtable reinforced the climate for this discussion last year with its “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation.” If our research on interorganization... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
same way. Historically in the internet era, the notion for startups has been to build a large customer base and monetize it through advertising. But it's hard to name more than two companies that have done this successfully. If Google and Facebook are taking up a big... View Details
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
the value of the assets." In their paper, the authors recount how, over the past decade, risks have been repackaged to create triple-A-rated securities. By mid-2007, they write, 37,000 structured finance issues in the United States... View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
advertising market—one that suffers quite a different set of problems. Display advertising systems place ads-typically, rectangular "banners"—on the majority of popular web sites. Though display ads are widespread, they are also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
rededicating themselves to improving the value they deliver to their patients: better outcomes and lower costs. Time-driven activity-based costing offers the potential for clinicians to redesign their care processes toward that end. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43385 Harvard Business School Case 817-012 DataXu: Selling Ad Tech DataXu served marketers by buying digital advertising for brands using its demand-side platform. It sought a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
In the not-too-distant past, many companies secured competitive advantage by investing heavily in internal R&D. Company engineers and scientists built value from the ground up, and protected their intellectual property like lions... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
that would directly welcome empowerment, companies whose value proposition evolves around consumer control should expect a slow start and work on consumer education and reassurance. You could argue that adoption is more likely when the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace