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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
survivors such as eBay, has to do with a work style that allows you to be enormously productive, professional, able to turn on a dime, and be open to change—because that's what many of those companies had to do. What we learn is View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
pursued flexible business strategies beyond its "core" business, even distributing condoms. It maintained a high standard of corporate ethics. It was effective at building contacts with local business and government elites,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
Information Age business innovations include: Digital production and distribution technologies (broadband and wireless networks, sophisticated content creation, flexible knowledge management) An operating model (integrated supply chains... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 29 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Global Change in the Built Environment
innovation, especially in the life sciences in areas such as stem cell research, requires buildings that must be flexible and readily converted to new and different uses. What will be published or other output from the colloquium? The... View Details
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
springboards that allow specialized producers to leverage their infrastructure and create new innovations and by bringing digital technology to a wide variety of sectors and users, again by providing flexible infrastructures that make it... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
their patient populations need, and workers and families can have the freedom and flexibility to make their own health care choices." This statement speaks to a strong attachment to personal freedom and choice in American... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
positive when it comes to stress levels, sleeping habits, eating habits, and weight. Advancing employee health has long included efforts to promote physical exercise and healthy eating, but recently has expanded to encompass an emphasis on workforce diversity, View Details
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
Leaders of publicly held companies are required to exercise their best judgment in pursuit of the interests of the business, and this gives them enormous flexibility to make whatever choice they see fit. This a test that cannot be... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
terms "a culture unfiltered by economic scarcity." In the Long Tail, money is made by such things as avoiding inventory, producing to order, letting customers do the work, pricing creatively and flexibly to various customers,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Nov 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?
as good or bad outlooks you're born with but as mindsets to adopt as situations demand." When testing strategic plans, deploy defensive pessimism, imagining all the things that can go wrong in the future. But when the task requires View Details
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
A proposal out of Harvard and MIT to rethink how kidney transplants are allocated could result in a fairer system giving patients longer lives. The new empirical model, which is intensely data driven, would provide a flexible framework to... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
exit in two or three years, they will probably need to hold investments for a longer period of time, he said. To invest in Europe, you need flexibility above all else, the panelists agreed. For an industry that prides itself on local,... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
to find without frustrating the customer and sending them off to a competitor. But the study shows that retailers have more flexibility than they might realize in making bargain items less prominent—and that doing so might benefit stores... View Details
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
flexibility of executive compensation is so enormous that it's always possible to find loopholes. It can even create distorting incentives that make the problem worse." In 1993, for example, Congress imposed a $1 million cap on CEO... View Details
- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
tangible assets, and contacts that are useful to their ventures, the government has created incentives to attract them back to China, and is more lenient or flexible regarding new venture formation. Q: This was an unusual trip for HBS in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Developing the Global Leader
the respect and capacity to pull the best out of each area of the corporation." A self-awareness and self-assurance when it comes to one's values and sense of purpose. At the same time, however, "you need to be flexible in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
govern partnering relationships through fixed-price contracts, whereas in others, firms use more flexible time and materials or performance-based contracts. How do these choices affect the costs and benefits that arise from greater levels... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
flexible and strategic, but value is created in proximity and in phasing. Uses need to be near each other for both economic competitiveness and to save the environmental costs of long car transit. Without density, there is no... View Details
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
be a really important component of explaining when and why we cross ethical boundaries, and these results show us that creativity helps with that process," Gino says. "It suggests that moral flexibility is the mechanism... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
systems. We then develop a simple model of how these markets enable entry by small or flexible suppliers and the resulting impact on existing firms. Finally, we consider the regulation of peer-to-peer markets and the economic arguments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne