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  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

related businesses in the local market or even in other countries. Stage III: Acquisition of New Capabilities. Becoming increasingly sophisticated as they competed with larger foreign rivals, the firms developed new capabilities in areas... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
  • 11 Jan 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center

reacting to the company's own organizational difficulties. Frei, Evenson and Harker point out that institutions generally suffer from a lack of overall customer focus when the design of their front-line tool—the voice response unit - is too View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service; Financial Services
  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

valuable source of differentiated value creation by PE funds,” says Srinivasan. “Smaller and mid-sized businesses have limited expertise to pursue a digital transformation strategy. On the other hand, their size and sophistication give PE... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 23 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

European disintegration. As a committed European, I firmly declare my ardent hope that British voters will see the light. Nevertheless, even in the best case of a vote to remain in the EU, the strong arguments that sophisticated... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

society through a cultural change that had solidarity as its core value. In our sample alliances, this motivation was associated with a specific company type: family-owned businesses. These are companies controlled by an individual or a family, despite the existence of... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

have made goods more attainable and enticing to a larger portion of the population. At the same time, trade liberalization and more sophisticated manufacturing techniques create goods that are less expensive and higher quality. A panel... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 04 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

Finding My Passion in the Startup Space

ex-consultants to seasoned real estate professionals. As far as my day to day goes, I have been fortunate to work with very smart people and take on new learnings. I have worked on projects ranging from building KPIs to the development of View Details
  • 16 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

Finding my Passion in the Startup Space

to day goes, I have been fortunate to work with very smart people and take on new learnings. I have worked on projects ranging from building KPIs to the development of sophisticated models around pricing and asset selection. What I enjoy... View Details
  • 16 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules

regulation wanted—a level playing field of information for all market participants--no sophisticated investor would want to spend much time having these meetings. Place yourself in the position of a hedge fund manager. Why would you spend... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

most sophisticated big-chip printers. They have a huge campus, like a university. They told me that it’s becoming more and more important to be physically close because they’re afraid of knowledge leakage. If you know everyone, and that’s... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin
  • 05 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

sophistication in methods, it is now possible to more judiciously allocate marketing resources. By Sunil Gupta and Thomas J. Steenburgh. 5. The Future of Social Enterprise This paper considers the confluence of forces that is shaping the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

a much more attractive deal be possible with another buyer, investor, supplier, or alliance partner?'" Rather than expend efforts at the table seeking to improve a potential deal, more sophisticated negotiators carefully assess... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
  • 27 Oct 2016
  • News

Paying It Forward

inventory losses by alerting retailers when items are given free-of-charge to friends and family by purposely not being scanned by a clerk (called “sweethearting”), when barcodes are covered, when items are left in a shopping cart, or when scales are circumvented. The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 23 Apr 2014
  • HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

of smokers who would have taken up tobacco if e-cigarettes didn't exist, as well as the number of smokers who would have quit cold turkey without the availability of electronic products. "To really determine the public health impact of e-cigarettes requires a lot... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

mortgages are now held by institutions with little connection to local communities? It obscured the risk that is inherent in lending and in owning. We have developed such a sophisticated housing-finance system that we were able to layer... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Management; Real Estate
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

The Case for Studying Financial History

quantitative approach. There are many admirable things about the way in which finance became more statistically sophisticated over the past twenty or thirty years. But many of the assumptions on which the more elaborate mathematical... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 07 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

manufacturing, after all, is consumed domestically. The more sophisticated and organized the domestic consumer base becomes, the easier it will be for China to move into high-quality areas of production. In a real sense, consumer... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

performance measures over time to transform Cross Country Group from an opportunistic family business into a sophisticated industry leader. Cross Country (renamed Agero in 2011) operated call centers that coordinated with thousands of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

or test product," she says. "Investment bankers want to know if it has technological sophistication and competence, if it can manage its internal resources effectively, and if it can bring its product to market." Given... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Mara Aspinall

different skill sets, since the technology and business models need to be developed hand in hand. We have to create systems that combine science, medicine, strategy, and IT in a sophisticated way, and managers will play a large role in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
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