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- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
New Value for Old Innovations Does Le Pliage Help or Hurt the Longchamp Luxury Brand? What do you think of this research? What factors should go into pricing of luxury goods? Share your insights below. View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
side than on the demand side. The key is to persuade suppliers that an online platform can help them suss out the demand for their services. Take Openbay, for example. “These companies have been passed down from generation to generation,”... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
of low-ticket items. Under the daily quota, even the high performers were concentrating on such incremental sales, neglecting their focus on the high-ticket items that took longer to sell–but which had traditionally helped them reach... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
who lets innovation happen, Hill says. He also never tried to be the visionary, the expert, or the decisive "I'm in charge," leader, she says. Instead he asked difficult and probing questions during regular review meetings that helped... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
people you have, the more time you spend on HR problems rather than doing things," he stated in the case. Yet enthusiasm for the project is strong, and many have offered assistance as unpaid volunteers. "Skilled people are leaving jobs and careers and are... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
though, Confucianism teaches that women should have access to education, which, in addition to democratization, likely has helped to increase the number of qualified female candidates for management positions. Deep Talent Pool Indeed,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
females. In the process of due diligence, star women learn a lot of valuable information about the company that helps them make good strategic decisions. They scrutinize prospective employers on receptivity to women, managerial support,... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
at Medtronic, would feel uncomfortable with the changes I was proposing. Many of our leaders seemed quite comfortable with the culture just the way it was. To link the cultural changes to our mission, I framed them in terms of helping... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
information. Technological progress had made it considerably easier to hear from NYC residents. Were those gains from innovation being shared equally? More recently, the city began using the data to create predictive models that might View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
pointing to the mobile shift-swapping app used by employees of clothing retailer The Gap. The company piloted the app in its Old Navy stores and expanded it to all brands in 2018. The app “creates value,” says Oberholzer-Gee, by helping... View Details
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
infrastructure” might, by rebuilding the middle class, help heal the very divide in the nation today that represents the obstacle that ProfPaul cites. So that leaves us with the basic question concerning investment in human... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
rules and policies. Proponents claim that, far from reducing employment opportunities, immigrants actually help create jobs. "They are more likely to fail than those founded by natives, but those that survive experience greater... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
extraordinary government support to help stabilize the funding of global financial institutions. In light of the problems that emerged during the crisis, a number of MMF reforms have been proposed, which we analyze in this paper. We... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
this question, particularly since if this is a question of coordinating efforts, highlighting the risks and benefits of action may help to create a critical mass of firms working together. "Could we build a private sector in which... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
the book is a sequel to their 2009 work The Adventures of an IT Leader "We hope that this book inspires reflection and makes a contribution to developing our knowledge about CEO leadership in ways that can help us meet the needs of the... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
large companies around the world, even including Japan where continuity, consensus, and culture have been honored for so long. The questions posed in many of these cases include: What did the board know when? How could it have anticipated and View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
in frequent contact with department stores to help them present her clothing in display and to customers. In the 1980s, after building up her designer brand name, Claiborne expanded her business through licensing arrangements with quality... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
fully. Q: What trends to help resolve the situation have you seen developing with market/industry disputes between companies and the involvement of governments and/or international organizations? Have you seen changes over the last five,... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
the efforts on the part of its management to help institutionalize good corporate governance in India. Indeed, diffusion of corporate governance practices in India is rendered partly feasible by a coalition between firms and regulators... View Details