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  • 13 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action

information," he writes. "The crucial questions include, What information should we collect? From where? How should it be obtained and by whom? Next, organizations interpret information. At this point, the crucial questions include, What does the information... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

bills, for example. In the paper we worked out a simple example of how this might work. At the end of last year, there were about $1.8 trillion of T-bills outstanding, with an average maturity of 102 days. One simple option is to simply shuffle maturities within the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services
  • 06 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

When Product Variety Backfires

reducing their assortment in various categories by 20 percent to as much as 80 percent, they increased their revenues by 11 percent. An alternative to reducing variety would be to help consumers navigate the variety that exists. Sometimes... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products
  • 08 Nov 2024
  • HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

trip there that he wanted to see numbers improve in categories such as guns on the battlefield, attacks against the North, and enemies captured and killed. But the pressure to hit the numbers caused his commanders to report falsely... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 03 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

categories of Health Performance Indicators can offer up objective data about the current status of a building and identify meaningful fluctuations over time. How are these HPIs gathered and interpreted? With a combination of settings,... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate
  • 09 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)

Once a company grows large enough to scale, says Cespedes, it’s important that managers think strategically about segmenting its market, not just “partitioning” it into broad categories such as health care or financial services. Cespedes... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Consumer Products; Electronics; Industrial Products; Information Technology; Manufacturing; Medical Devices & Supplies; Retail
  • 05 Dec 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

should not however be slaves to the plan or the prediction they are following and must ask how firm-wide competencies can be developed to handle changes in predictions." And there are situations in which predictions can be very helpful. Peter Everett commented:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 12

External risks arise from events outside the company and are beyond its influence or control. Sources of these risks include natural and political disasters and major macroeconomic shifts. Risk events from any category can be fatal to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing

high at that outlet, while the Boston store might stock relatively few items in this category because demand is lower there. Why don't more retailers customize their inventories? The answer, as we explain later on, lies in slow supply... View Details
Keywords: by Marshall L. Fisher, Ananth Raman & Anna Sheen McClelland; Retail
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

control, and contractual flexibility," they maintain. "Thus it looms as a potential complement or substitute for all of the major categories of existing media and appears capable of serving a wide range of communications... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising
  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

response to the WWII experience. We show that internment aggravated existing staffing challenges, impacted the perception of racial lines of distinctions, and recast the category “European business.” While internment was perceived and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

functionalities and markets, and also those that will perform the most fundamental functions, which in my view are search and payments. Another category of winners will be of course the owners of valuable content—be it games, music or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
  • 23 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

elucidate the huge differences in appointments and pay among top executives. “I believe that some type of discrimination would be the most likely story” The categories they studied included level of education (e.g. high school vs.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

patterns of hundreds of thousands of inventors over two decades. (They considered only inventors who held multiple patents.) "Patenting inventors represent an important category of skilled workers involving the sorts of trade secrets... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
  • 10 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in 2006. A number of large U.S.-based private equity firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

relationships in India well beyond its endpoint and that the WWI internment shaped the subsequent perception of and strategic response to the WWII experience. We show that internment aggravated existing staffing challenges, impacted the perception of racial lines of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

differs from experts in judging which ideas to fund, and, indeed, whether the crowd is even rational in making funding decisions. Drawing on a panel of national experts and comprehensive data from the largest crowdfunding site, we examine funding decisions for proposed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

cultivate and maintain customer loyalty, and the strategies it employed to penetrate the highly competitive yogurt and dairy categories nationwide. Throughout, readers will encounter the challenges that Hirshberg, his colleagues, and his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

Broad definitions of the scope of information subject to disclosure; An obligation to publish proactively key documents and categories of information, even in the absence of a specific request; Clear, accessible mechanisms for the public... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 16 Jul 2014
  • HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

"This is not like Field of Dreams, where if you build it they will come," Quelch says. "There are distinct categories of consumers, each of which needs to be addressed in a different way." By using a marketing-based... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
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