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- 08 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer
The gold-lettered Donor Wall of Fame is a cornerstone of philanthropy. To entice donations, fundraisers will also deploy competitions, hierarchies of giving, and naming rights... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
high-tech start-ups be able to look for guidance regarding matters of governance? One place might be their counterparts that have successfully achieved post-adolescent industry leadership, companies like Microsoft. But what kind View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
the other parts of the problem,” Shore says. “In that sense, it’s like a model for complex business decision-making because, usually, interesting problems are not just a matter View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 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 and 350 million reviews online covering 6.5 million hotels,... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Union.” The second book, one I am well into, is my colleague Shoshanna Zuboff’s magisterial The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. This book is one of genius. It provides a sweeping description the rise and... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
For many decades, corporate research and development has been pretty much an "inside job." The road to innovative new products and services began and ended with a company's internal R&D. But according to HBS assistant professor and Class View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
sidebar "Are Board Self-Evaluations Enough?") Separate The Positions Of Chairman And Ceo. This suggestion is hardly novel—in fact, splitting the positions is a common practice in many boardrooms outside the United States—but in... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
billable hours. How does that hurt productivity? A: The most obvious answer is that there is a negative financial incentive to solving problems quickly and efficiently. Hourly billing is a deeply ingrained model View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
technologies and the eventual creation of a regulatory structure to prevent entrepreneurial chaos. LR: To follow up on that, Professor Spar, you've created a four-phase model View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
Union is funded through consumer subscriptions to Consumer Reports, and through private grants. This model has several advantages. By directly linking its output to consumer use of its service, it provides a... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
aspect of that general theme: Can technology drive changes in demand? In a world of growing information resources, what are the drivers of search? How do people search, really?... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
area of scientific inquiry, but also one that has been mired thus far in political controversy. I want to look at how different countries are dealing with this science and what kinds of regulatory regimes... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
consumer's expected welfare. One way to think of this is to ask whether a better-informed consumer would move in the directions suggested by prescriptive models. Generally, I predict that as a consumer received more information, they... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
patterns of their male colleagues," says coauthor Kolb. And without women in high places, younger women lack the role models and mentors to help them succeed. It seems the organization is signaling that... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
In the late 1980s, scientists for New York City-based drug-maker Pfizer began testing what was then known as compound UK-92,480 for the treatment of angina. Although UK-92,480 seemed promising in the lab and in animal tests, the compound... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
radio—featuring recordings of actual calls for help. Whereas individual car makes and models were usually marketed separately, Huber's team wanted OnStar to have its own distinct brand across the fleet.... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
Apple Computer knows how to make headlines. The company is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh and is enjoying the fruits of its launch into the digital entertainment business. In its December... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
What did people do before ATMs? That's a question that causes most twentysomethings to draw a blank. They don't remember the days when people conducted their banking—face-to-face with a teller—between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays. The idea View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
external factors play a surprising role in strategy formulation and execution. As Gilbert explains, "A lot of our book is about understanding (a) that realized strategy is often different from intended strategy, and (b) there are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace