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- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
they already knew from a roster of names and photos. Researchers randomly assigned participants to teams and work stations in a large open space and challenged them to create a mobile app for the Indian... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
or Europe. In fact, an herbal medicine patent was 85 percent more likely to be authored by someone with an Indian surname than was a similar control patent. "It's a great example of first-generation immigrants carrying very contextual knowledge View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
great bottom line. Ton emphasizes the importance of scheduling and stability. Workers learn about their schedules one month in advance and don't have to work different shifts from one day to the next. Over... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
growing number of elections, and that is a cause for concern.” Fewer voters means less people having a stake in what government does, eroding trust of the governed—particularly by younger, poorer, and less educated citizens, who tend to stay View Details
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
prototypes, artists made jewelry, and developers punched out low-cost housing. Machines that had cost upwards of $50,000 now cost a few thousand and could fit on a desktop. Formlabs brings 3-D printing home Formlabs developed a... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
is the appropriate response to what assuredly would be opposition from U.S. labor unions? Or is there an intermediate step perhaps involving renewable work permits requiring a periodic return to Mexico,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
The trillion-dollar size of the union pension funds gave the Office a platform from which to work. The departure of Home Depot's CEO had been a significant step by Home Depot... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
COVID-19 is claiming an unexpected career toll among scientific researchers, and particularly on women, new research shows. If you are female, have young children, or work in a lab, you are more likely to feel the career-crunching effects... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
Worldwide financial markets are in a period of extraordinary change, as they gear up for more and more volume, work out an assortment of mergers and consolidations, contemplate the reality of 24-hour global trading, adopt new advances in... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered Are global brands effective? How should I think about strategy in a flat... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
market share in the home country before repeating the process in a neighboring market won't work anymore. Instead, they declared, start-ups have to grow big by expanding beyond their borders as quickly as... View Details
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
inventory needs. Take, for example, a large American manufacturer of men's blazers. As part of our research into lean retailing, we tracked the demand for different sizes of a blue blazer. Far from a trendy fashion item, the blue blazer... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
him and one of its board members? Understanding the dynamics of the CEO search process, as well as the ways in which chief executive turnover influences corporate performance, has been the goal of recent research by HBS assistant professor Rakesh Khurana. In a recent... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Once the hub of American manufacturing, Detroit is in a long state of economic decline. The rubber finally hit the road last week, when the city filed for bankruptcy protection. The challenges ahead for those that call the Motor City home... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
get reconnected back to something more "social" than a home office. Organizations too have benefited from the telecommuting phenomenon, increasing their ability to hire scarce talent that otherwise... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
Months of binge watching, doom scrolling, home schooling, and stress eating have left many people more determined than ever to start a new fitness regimen in January. Even a global pandemic that is closing gyms and keeping people indoors... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
LaGuardia is number 15 for takeoff. I miss Air Force One!! And here's one from film director Lee Unkrich: Just in case you think all this has gone to my head, within 36 hours of winning the Oscar, I was back View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
Schumpeter's point is admittedly difficult to sell in the "sound-bite" culture of our political debates, but that's why it is so important. Q: What are you working on now? A: I am currently working... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
organizational values and business ethics, Paine focused on U.S. companies engaged in business principally at home. But faced with an increasing number of questions from international students about whether U.S. standards and values... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
overall, the companies that were successful had much higher performance. “Putting it into baseball terms, investors who relied on their gut feel had a lower batting average, but more home runs,” Huang says. In the current paper, she... View Details