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- 30 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?
little to contribute to processes of creation and innovation. While asking "What isn't management's role in innovation?," Michelle Malay Carter states the case this way: "Nearly all current performance management models are... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
Workers who used to be fine with regular office hours pre-pandemic are still struggling, as the pandemic continues to affect their availability and the predictability of their work hours. Parents with vaccinated kids could still find... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
of leading globally distributed operations. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/612078-PDF-ENG Aman Resorts (Abridged) Eugene Soltes and Aldo SesiaHarvard Business School Case 112-100 This case describes the operating model and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
standard, the FASB predicted managers will, on average, use the fair value estimates to convey private information on future cash flows. The current fair value of goodwill is unverifiable because it depends in part on management's future... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
example of sales-related hyperbole, Cespedes points to the dire predictions that online buying will eventually cause the real-life “death of a salesman.” While online information sources affect selling, retail sales through ecommerce... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
Publications In press Chap. 1 in Business Models and Modelling The Business Model: Nature and Benefits By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and John Heilbron Abstract—This paper considers the nature of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting "reliability" and "relevance" of proposed standards. Notably, we find FASB members with backgrounds in financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
Remember the old saying: "It is not the size of the dog in the fight. It is the size of the fight in the dog." Gauging asymmetries is so essential to predicting outcomes because the availability of information about a threat or... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
equity inflows have a more negative announcement effect on equity returns than those on debt inflows. Real investment falls in the three years following the controls. Overall, the findings have implications for macro-finance models that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-114.pdf Platforms and Limits to Network Effects (revised) Authors:Hanna Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
according to Forrester Research, a consulting firm specializing in e-commerce. Industry observers are shy to predict just what the future of advertising will look like, but they agree that the pace and enormity of changes that have come... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
pervasive and least-understood fail point that threatens to kneecap even the best-laid scaling plan: organizational friction. Bier reveals why organizational frictions take hold as you grow and how they slow your company down. These growth pains are both View Details
- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
What do you think? Original Article During the past several weeks, economists have begun to predict substantially slower growth rates for the world's economy into the foreseeable future. Characteristic of this is the reduction of roughly... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
and dispensaries in six states using the new predictive credit-risk model. And as it had in early tests, the model for evaluating the loan application was a success, achieving a remarkable 100 percent... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
Years later, I see patterns from this case discussion play out in conference rooms and boardrooms over and over again. I can almost predict the way the dialogue will go as each party tries to play their part in influencing decisions and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet fluctuations in bank-loan supply have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
sell toothpicks; you can just follow a linear regression line. But if you are trying to sell a three-quarter-length floral print dress that’s only available for one season, you need more sophisticated models to View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
ratio and ROE. Applying the model to the cross-section of firms, we find that expected returns and expected profitability are highly persistent and time varying. Our fundamentals-implied estimates of expected returns across time horizons... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies
disparity in the wealth of nations, in spite of the fact that technology adoption lags have shortened dramatically in the past few decades. In their paper An Exploration of Technology Diffusion, Comin and fellow researcher Bart Hobijn described a scientific View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel