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- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
coffee shop in Los Angeles in 2014 called Dumb Starbucks. Write Deighton and Kornfeld: "The stunt's function as promotion for the show was eventually deduced by journalists and the public. The delayed reveal was an element of play." A... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
1952)—convinced him to delay his application to HBS and hired him for Red Comet, their decorative-ceiling business. “My bosses said, ‘You’ll get in. You will have the background and experience,’” he recalls. “When my mom called to say the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
landed a job at Siebel Systems out of HBS, Rawdon was well on her way to building a portfolio of professional experiences that would, she felt, improve her chances of successfully launching a business. Within a few weeks, however, she knew she couldn’t View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
Conversely, another hospital identified that a medication room was too small for more than one nurse to work in at a time, delaying patient care. Senior managers discussed the issue with staff and they collectively made a plan to move the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
sites, transfer new product lines, update technologies, etc. Another cost of outsourcing is the cost of inventory. A part might be manufactured cheaply in Mexico, but shipping the part involves inventory, not to mention delays and risks.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
were measured by asking people how frequently they felt nervous, anxious, or on edge and were “worrying too much about different things.” To measure presenteeism, participants were asked how often they were unable to concentrate on their jobs or how often they View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
to innovate and support entrepreneurship? Or are they just delaying the inevitable? Do organization size, innovation, and entrepreneurship have to be incompatible? What do you think? To read more: Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
the Bowl Championship Series helps to delay bowl matchups until the completion of all the games in the regular season, so that the top teams can more often be matched with each other in a championship game. For doctors, the marketplace... View Details
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
make a big difference The researcher found that, on average, the amount of synchronous communication, such as phone calls and video chats, declined by 11 percent when the time delay between workers increased by an hour. Meanwhile, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
marketplaces are often “winner take all,” and Nomad is not alone in pursuing a technological fix to health care staffing; delaying expansion risks ceding ground to new competitors. Which path should the company take? The Answers: Having... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
were standard for start-ups, but some were unique to hedge funds—among them choosing the right fund structure, as well as how to raise capital for the management company versus raising capital to invest. Given the recent backlash against HFT, the question of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
around long after they have bought its products, the new listing will show GM's renewed ability to access the capital markets. For the federal government, the reduction in its ownership below 50% will underscore its ability to execute without View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
be able to experiment with the economics and logistics of a pizza business and gain firsthand experience of his customers as well. The outlet was an instant hit, but Pujals resisted the temptation to immediately replicate it. He waited a year before opening a second... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
both Taran Swan and Estée Lauder were meant to point out that the superwoman is a myth. It is clear that there are prices people pay. And the women who came to the program were saying, 'My family is not going to pay that price.' They are willing to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
manufactuer's 787 Dreamliner, designed and built using more than 100 outside partners, is perhaps the most-watched example of the use of innovation networks. But already almost two years late, the project was dealt another blow last month when Boeing again View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
longer than follow-on entrants in regulatory approval. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that the cost of this delay is upwards of 7% of the cost of bringing a new high-risk device to market. Considering potential explanations, I... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
tracking outcomes with employers) and then connecting students with the best jobs. Employers were enduring long project wait times – six months to a year after the sale to install – because they couldn’t find enough skilled trades labor. The View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
as some people are asking, the [Federal Reserve Bank] were to delay raising U.S. interest rates on the basis that China’s deceleration will induce a global slowdown. That decision would clearly have an effect on this economy. Q: What are... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
main consumer segment in the economy, are expressing decreased consumption due to better utilization of existing goods, lower spending capacity, lower desire to consume, and delays in key life events that drive consumption (e.g. marriage,... View Details
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Key Metrics | Annual Report 2024
increases GHG emissions). Harvard University calculates its GHG emissions factor, but there is a delay in getting current grid data to feed into that calculation. Energy includes steam and electricity from Harvard’s Blackstone Steam... View Details