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- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
cameras are almost expendable devices, offering much less quality but good enough to be incorporated into cell phones and PDAs reaching mass markets. Solar cells met limited success as alternative energy sources to the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.
time in understanding how all this works. Here's a look at stories on some of those research areas and what they mean for becoming a better decision maker. Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men Studies reveal that investors prefer... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
Stickgold and Harvard Kennedy School's Todd Rogers, HBS PhDOB'08), influence and persuasion research (with my main collaborator at HBS, professor Amy Cuddy), voice analysis... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
over intellectual property theft and forced technology transfer, there has also been discussion in Congress about expanding secrecy orders. That proposal was strongly opposed by powerful lobbies including... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
to lose money or power should the status quo be overturned." What kind of money and power stands to be lost, and by whom? How did we get to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
or even how much they will pay for an item. But they aren't very good at accessing where that value comes from, or how and when it is influenced by factors like store displays or brands.” Most humans are a... View Details
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
TripAdvisor demonstrates the reach and power of recommendation services for consumers: it has become the world’s largest travel site with 340 million unique monthly visitors View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
decisions are made within a firm. Module 5 considers how differences across countries create financing opportunities for firms. Finally, Modules 6 and 7 consider how distinctive institutional environments change financing decisions View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
MBA course in negotiation as well as advanced dealmaking electives and Executive Education programs), has developed a model with former HBS faculty member David A. Lax called "three-dimensional negotiation." In a course note... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
But in most scenarios, distribution channels, taken as a whole, seem more like a repository of lost opportunities than an effective delivery system that appropriately serves and rewards all participants. View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Media
Using social media to advance your marketing is a potentially powerful and low-cost tool. But the risk is potentially powerful, too—allowing consumers to co-create your brand is enough to induce night sweats... View Details
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
research efforts. Building on these results and experiences, we suggest that executive education in general, and action learning in particular, are fertile contexts where business schools can bridge the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
about candidates before they start predicts how they'll do once they're hired." Three that he cites in a recent article in The New Yorker are pro football quarterbacks, high-performing financial advisors, and teachers. Learning is... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
more powerful than 1,000 words (or even twenty-five ad hoc performance measures). The financial and customer objectives describe the outcomes the organization wants to achieve; objectives in the internal... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
being engaged and given incentive to change. I don't know what tool or technology could be used for that, but anything that improves communication between and with providers, that kind of standardization,... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
of the way the company is managed. Q: Why haven't organizations thought more about succession? A: Succession is awkward for most boards and CEOs. It is associated with failure or a kind of death. Giving up View Details
- 13 Jun 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
That Costs HOW Much?
Pricing the Right Price for You? Not every industry or company can benefit from performance-based pricing. But where there is a fit, PBP can be a powerful tool that merges the interests of buyers and... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
provides strong prima facie evidence that firms have recognized the value of financing capital assets through project companies. Even though it is very costly and time consuming to use project finance, the potential benefits far outweigh... View Details
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
Nigerian instant noodle company, Tolaram Industries, which built its own transportation system and power plants to support its operations without having to depend on the unreliable municipal View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel