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- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
Review 49, no. 1 (fall 2007) Abstract The largely erroneous perception that breakthroughs are impossible to predict arises from the tendency to focus on just the breakthroughs while ignoring the iterative process of invention and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability
the cost of processing large quantities of small customer orders. Customized pricing policies should be at the heart of any strategy to manage customer profitability. The company can set a base price for a... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
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Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
their value proposition, they tap into the potential for a competitive advantage that is more sustainable versus competitors than conventional cost and quality advantages. Whole Foods, the most economically successful food retailer in... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
experience and performance fails to find a consistent effect of diversity in experience on performance. The problem is that diversity in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base but also creates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
Cespedes explains a strategic process for hiring and managing an effective salesforce: book excerpt Build your Team: Recruitment And Selection From Aligning Strategy and Sales By Frank Cespedes Putting the right team on the field is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
boundaries, and information processing challenges associated with distant search. Information processing, storage, and communication costs have long been an important constraint on innovation and a reason... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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About Us - Research Computing Services
no cost for up to one hour per month. Consultations longer than one hour and project work for faculty are charged to faculty research budgets at a rate of $40/hour. Our areas of expertise include, but are not limited to: Advanced... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
and by incorporating user innovation. We then examine how this ease of external engagement impacts the organization and its strategic activities. Specifically, we consider how this shift in information processing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
faced with a situation in which a decision to move jobs overseas to reduce costs and preserve profit performance appeared to be alienating workers, customers, and even the president of the United States. Harley-Davidson had long been held... View Details
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
exploratory study of learning processes in globally dispersed new product development teams. These qualitative data are used to investigate components of team learning previously highlighted in the team learning literature—namely... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Thin Slices of Workgroups By: Satterstrom, Patricia, Jeffrey T. Polzer, Lisa Kwan, Oliver P. Hauser, Wannawiruch Wiruchnipawan, and Marina Burke Abstract—In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
learns that the most profitable 1% of the division's customers generate 100% of profits, and that two of the division's largest customers lose 50% of profits. The division has just finished a project to install a time-driven activity-based View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
annual public outcomes report. They also introduce bundled payment contracts with three insurers for orthopedic surgeries and join a multi-hospital study for applying time-driven activity-based costing to identify View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
Summer Fellowship) NetaCarbon is the TurboTax for carbon credit – a carbon credit issuance platform that digitizes and streamlines the process of how carbon projects are created and managed. By reducing the time and View Details
- 13 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions
personal, business, management, and financial risk before granting or denying the loan. Because these applications had already been processed in real life, the researchers knew whether each one had been accepted for a loan, and which of... View Details
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
NOTE FOR FOUNDERS: See "Application Process for Founders" section below for details about limitations on capital raised and revenue generated. Your job is based full-time in Africa (one of the 54 recognized states in Africa or 10... View Details
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details
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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online
Demand: Foundations Strategies for Assessing and Increasing Demand Suppliers and Cost Markets Competition and Differentiation Featured Exercises Develop effective pricing strategies Apply conjoint analysis to understand what customers... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
companies has become available in the past 10 years. Myth Number 5: ESG adds value almost entirely by limiting risks. Reality: Along with lower risk and a lower cost of capital, companies with high ESG scores have also experienced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne