Demand And Consumers - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Mar 2006
What Do You Think?

The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?

would advocate a discontinuation of operations after attempting unsuccessfully to resist meeting government demands for private information. Some suggested more complex strategies. Among those in favor of staying View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

academics are uniquely suited to play, says Karen Mills, former administrator of the US Small Business Administration (SBA) and now a senior fellow at HBS. “When I went to Washington, I saw a tremendous need for fact-based analysis to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

entrepreneurs (like Waze or Uber) from open data sources—rather than being controlled by a central utility. Pricing can vary by demand or by user’s ability to pay. This provides an astonishing ability to improve how the existing... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

20 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

The Acquirers

and liabilities are combined through a merger or acquisition (the opposite is true when a financial firm makes these deals). According to the co-insurance theory, combined debt is safer and should reduce the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

early twentieth century. It is a story, in part, about how fortune telling was professionalized. Unlike Adams, whose insights into the future rested on her purported ability to read the stars, the entrepreneurs profiled here were statisticians View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

fit, in terms of the risk compensation profiles, the expected or demanded precision in projections going forward, and the level of uncertainty. "You ask a big company to be almost schizophrenic with... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

05 Mar 2001
What Do You Think?

Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?

Summing Up Fine Coupling of People: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? Manufacturers and distributors are succeeding in various approaches — including postponement, computer-aided manufacture, robotics, rapid response, positive tracking, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Jun 2013
What Do You Think?

Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’

with respect and understanding. The payback is impressive." Several commented on the demands that NSM places on management in an uncertain environment and the need for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

In a recent case study, professor Alan MacCormack and research associate Jay Wynn swung for the moon—Mars, actually. After two high-profile missions to Mars failed in 2000, MacCormack wanted to understand the organizational View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

Consumers are looking for the ability to bundle the products they want in a fashion unique to each individual, and the Web will provide this capability .... We believe that vertical portals will do the best... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

Effective value-based competition will be centered on addressing health conditions over the entire life cycle of care (not the specific components of care such as surgery, office visits, home care, and so on), View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

may not involve government. Value-net games have to do with cooperation and competition among businesses. 7 Public interest games pit coalitions of businesses, and even entire industries, against nonbusiness... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

and execute truly creative solutions. Perhaps the traditional image of the creative genius working alone to create great breakthroughs is not so accurate after all. To shatter conventional wisdom about group creativity is one purpose of... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

of perfect information." Among the suggestions for managers were these: Help "data analyzers consume and translate the data" (Scott Kemme, who also suggested an alternative title for the column, which I... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

09 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary

demand model, Stanton and Thomas estimate that hand-holding premium accounts for about two-thirds of the price increase for first-time users, while markups represent the other third. Charging any premium,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment; Technology; Computer

22 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage

comparative advantage in cloth. Ricardo concluded that if each country followed its comparative advantage—with Portugal producing only wine and England only cloth—and the two then engaged in trade with one another, each would be able to... View Details

Keywords: Re: David A. Moss

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

a project to a small group of people who are amateurs, who do the project part-time and act as a committee. It doesn't demand management time and resources, View Details

Keywords: by Staff

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

time. They believe that in pursuing its own self-interest in opening and expanding the BOP market, business can make a profit while serving the poorest of consumers and... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

27 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Should I Pay the Bribe?

At Harvard Business School, one of professor Rafael Di Tella's areas of study is how political corruption and common crime can be controlled in a variety of contexts. So it was only natural that Di Tella would be asked to comment when the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell

24 Oct 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

introduce innovations that transform the way companies do business and consumers behave. Disruptive changes that might serve as the source of innovation include technology shifts, new business models,... View Details

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