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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
customers over a period of four months. We predict and find that should DVDs (e.g., documentaries) are held significantly longer than want DVDs (e.g., action films) within-customer. Similarly, we also predict and find that people are more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
perhaps extremely severe, that are routine because they can be anticipated and prepared for) and "true crises" (which, because of significant novelty, cannot be dealt with exclusively by pre-determined emergency plans and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
quantity, and method of distribution account for the observed variation in IRI within stores. Store-specific factors such as the density and variety of inventory observed at each store account for the variation in IRI across stores. Dynamic Capabilities at IBM: Driving... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
you hope your students take away from the discussion? Shih: What I hope for is that future managers will take away a more thoughtful approach about manufacturing and think about, as Gary said, the longer-term implications of their actions... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
relationships to sustain them. Transitions also are times when small differences in a new leader's actions can have disproportionate impacts on results. Everyone is straining to take the leader's measure and people are forming opinions... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
conditional compensation in the form of quota-bonus incentives to improve performance; however, it may lead to lower future performance. We find little evidence that effectiveness differs between a quota-bonus plan and a punitive-bonus... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
are managed without leadership development as an objective; as a result, when the time comes to name a new chief executive, those firms turn to outsiders. The Leader Within: The Best CEO Succession Plans Groom Independent-minded Insiders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
highlight a two-stage process for marketing resource allocation. In stage one, a model of demand is estimated. This model empirically assesses the impact of marketing actions on consumer demand of a company's product. In stage two,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
processes were already equipped for the challenge. Successful firms, by contrast, developed an explicit strategy for collaboration and made organizational changes to aid performance in these efforts. Ultimately, these actions allowed them... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
reduces his real power. When CEOs wield direct power, they must do so very selectively and deliberately—and never without a broader plan of action in mind. Usually, power is best used indirectly, through the... View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
(B) case describes the actions taken by Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince and his management team to right the company in the wake of the controversies and alleged misdeeds described in the (A) case. Purchase the supplement:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
through literature, the study of moral leadership becomes a very real hunt for clues for how to confront situations that we believe we could encounter ourselves. A second benefit of working with literature is that we know what happens. Unlike a case, which always ends... View Details
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
impartial." Toffel planned and stewards the site with colleagues whose research is similarly devoted to issues surrounding business and the environment: Andrew King, an associate professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School and currently a... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
measurement system will have little impact if the results are not fully discussed. Results should be monitored regularly and used to identify areas of weakness, address the plans and systems in place, and establish new initiatives to... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
commercial and companion animals. The company has been growing rapidly and is considering whether or not to implement an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Ozark currently uses an IT system built and refined in house and, though... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
team and the ways in which firms shift their identities, build innovative cultures and processes, and begin to change the world around them. Business leaders will find the book a source of both powerful examples and immediately actionable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
trends in the market, the case prompts students to examine the future adoption of drug-eluting stents as well as to consider the potential marketing actions to be taken by Medtronic for ENDEAVOR—a newly approved stent that will hit the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace