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- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
and free cash flow. The emphasis on cash helps explain how firms have changed their supply chains and how working capital has become a significant financial benefit to major firms ranging from Apple to Walmart. Similarly, emphasizing cash can help explain the promise... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
their handsets. The GSM Association predicts that by 2012, nearly 300 million of the previously "unbanked" will be using some form of mobile banking. “The mistake a lot of us make is to look at the folks at the base of the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
models to forge new sales channels, revenue streams, and customer segments. Could you give an example? Teixeira: Incumbents tend to respond to decoupling by gluing back the part of the value chain that was broken. The other alternative is... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
gains from increasing one's reservation wage are larger than either those that people expect or those predicted by models in which job offers are stationary. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
results translate to specific predictions on how the change in homogeneity will affect firm behavior. This paper's predictions can also serve more generally as a test for the theory of culture as shared... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
communities) and the moderating effects of team leader experience. We test our moderated mediation model in a sample of 121 teams that filed patents in a Fortune 50 company’s India R&D center between 2005 and 2015 using proprietary... View Details
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
determine the proper time for maintenance or replacement. As more companies start to figure out the right model for using IoT-based products, Lal predicts a coming explosion in the industry. “It’s a slow... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
shut down and has seen no revenue, with thousands of employees home, since November. 2. Lead by example Managers should model the behavior they want to see in others. If they say employees can leave the office or avoid travel, but the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
entwined into your unique business model that competitors wouldn't be able to readily implement it even if they knew what it was." Khadija Khan suggested that we let the recipient decide, saying that "There is really no need for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Research Summary
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By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
model for explaining how network resources contribute to organizational performance. Reach is the extent to which an organization's network connects it to diverse and distant partners. Richness represents the potential value of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Overview
Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
to help predict the future, it may be a good idea to refer to it. But in most cases, the decision maker is posed with a unique challenge." Vanitha Rangganathan, arguing for the role of intuition in the creative process, commented... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
salary and bonus model that aligned well with JLL's culture but proved unattractive to new recruits. America's CEO Peter Roberts outlines the alternatives JLL analyzed as they considered how to strengthen the organization while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
schools choose to display on their websites. First, the data strongly rejects patterns predicted by classic models of voluntary disclosure. In contrast with the traditional unraveling hypothesis, top schools... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
care workers. These responses may be focused on the immediate emergency of the pandemic with the idea of returning to business-as-usual at some point. Other companies are making deeper changes that are changing their business-as-usual View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
All of the most valuable firms in the world today are platforms, starting with Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. But platforms do not evolve in predictable ways, and there is a lot that managers and entrepreneurs can learn about past,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
provided by multinational firms. Detection Defection: Measuring and Understanding the Predictive Accuracy of Customer Churn Models Authors:Scott Neslin, Sunil Gupta, Wagner Kamakura, Junxiang Lu, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
find the evidence to be most consistent with a model of endogenous technology adoption where the cost of adopting new technologies declines sufficiently with the current level of adoption. The evidence is less consistent with a dominant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace