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- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Pundits and politicians point to the burden of pension, health, and union obligations on the cost side. True, but not it's not sufficient just to cut costs. The real game is... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
demonstrates that when employees can see their customers, the beneficiaries of their efforts, the quality and efficiency of the service they deliver can actually improve. Studies in food service show how revealing customers to employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
frustration and, often, stagnation. It's the leader's job to point managers and team members in a specific direction but to make sure it's a direction they can respond to. To effect innovation, a leader must... View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
costs decrease and as the benefits from outsourcing the use of intellectual property increases. We also examine how different licensing arrangements affect the relation between the variance of the returns to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
battles for eight years and still faces the likelihood of a presidential veto if approved by the Republican-dominated U.S. Senate. But, domestic politics aside, according to Vietor, the administration may not be able to ignore the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
consumers to not only back teams to win, but also to lay odds for other punters to back. This business model allows punters to cut out the middleman of the bookmaker and leads to a much more efficient... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A World of Information at Your Fingertips
users and returning subscribers. The School recently upgraded eBaker by making it easier to use, cutting the price of OneSource by $50 a year, and making more databases... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
fail to meet analysts' earnings expectations for 2005 unless Gilmartin cuts the R&D budget. Cutting the budget might hurt morale and productivity in Merck labs. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
Schulmeyer sought the natural leaders to be Siemens-Nixdorf's change agents, and gave them responsibilities that cut across existing hierarchical titles. At Invensys, Rick Haythornthwaite put 90 people on... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
the US economy? A: The immediate direct impact on the real economy is measurable but modest. About 800,000 people are now taking unpaid days off, and they are generally people of middle- or upper-middle- class incomes, so they are... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
LaSalle (JLL) faced at the turn of the millennium. Until then, JLL sold piecemeal commercial real estate services to its corporate clients, who maintained relationships with a variety of vendors. In 2000, JLL's large corporate clients started globalizing their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
designing various auction processes that treat differently the questions of what is bought, from whom, and at what price. "In order to try to re-liquefy the markets, get some price discovery and begin... View Details
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast
that come up at different stages for entrepreneurs, so one of the great pleasures of my job is that people come to me with the thing that's confronting them right now and we get to work through that. I also... View Details
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
experienced employers evaluate job applicants, which alters their demand. There is limited evidence that workers’ costs are higher when applying to an inexperienced employer. New employers enter the market uncertain about their value for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
John R. Sculley
Leaving his position as CEO of Pepsi-Cola, Sculley’s first task as head of Apple involved cutting costs and cutting people, most notably, Apple’s founder View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
Today's headlines confirm that difficulty, as GM and Ford close plants, cut jobs and production, and try to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
still have a number of manual processes here, so we see a lot of scope for more and more businesses in Jamaica to become technology-enabled, particularly in health care, financial services, and agriculture.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
identity crisis of sorts because their jobs and their family roles no longer allow for the authoritative (some would say patriarchal) roles of the past. To compensate for this felt emasculation on the work... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Authors:Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael, and Alvin J. Silk Abstract The common perception appears to be that vertical integration of advertising services is more the exception than the rule in the U.S. advertising industry. This study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace