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02 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

overnight. What is a cloud kitchen? Cloud kitchens are commercial facilities purpose-built to produce food specifically for delivery. They do not have brick-and-mortar dine-in areas and consist of shared kitchen space with culinary staff... View Details

Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

"I've heard many war stories," says Harvard Business School associate professor Connie Bagley, reflecting on conversations with former students who have started business ventures. To prepare current students for the HBS Business Plan Contest, Bagley gives a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

August 2014
Case

Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A)

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Wesley M. Cohen, Kynon Ingram, Tushar Kothalkar, Maxim Kuzemchenko, Santosh Malik, Cynthia Meyn, Greta Friar and Stephanie Healy Pokrywa

In 2006, Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, was looking for a way to solve Netflix's customer churn problem. Netflix used Cinematch, its proprietary movie recommendation software, to promote individually determined best-fit movies to customers. Hastings determined that a... View Details

Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Prizes; Digitization; Algorithms; Recommendation Software; Disruption; Transformation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Sharing; Applications and Software; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Technology Industry; United States

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14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

and on the external situation (e.g., a rise in cases), and communicate this to your employees. 3. If a solution works, share it. If a manager finds a remote/flex arrangement that works for one person on the team, View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a... View Details

17 Jun 2011
HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

importance of knowledge transfer, and even arrange for them to go overseas to learn," Su said in the case. The Chinese Way "One of the lessons I take away from this case is that to do China, you have to do China," says... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage

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Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis

instructions available in Knowledge Base. Individual account required. Please see More Info page for instructions on signing up for an account. Morningstar Direct Multi-currency research platform that provides performance... View Details

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

adoption, participants are no better than others. Little evidence suggests that adopting such programs leads participants to improve faster, says Toffel. Government-initiated programs, however, show more mixed results. Toffel met with HBS Working View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Research Areas Research Areas Antitrust & Competition Policy CEO Leadership Environmental Quality Innovation & Innovative Capacity Philanthropy Social Progress Index Philanthropy Philanthropy Beyond charity and corporate responsibility, Creating View Details

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

so they can seek higher salaries, Healy says. “You have a little bit more power than you might have thought,” he says. Indeed, one search executive interviewed by the researchers noted that this knowledge can translate to big payoffs for... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

affects each of Porter's Five Forces as well as the resources and capabilities of the firm. The availability of patents may be key to deciding what barriers to entry exist. The enforceability of covenants not to compete and assignments of inventions may determine who... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

pernicious effects that power has." Sharing some of their power with their employees, for example by giving them more autonomy or allowing them to contribute to the decision-making process, can actually lead to better results: higher... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

efficiency and long-term adaptability are inherently incompatible. Organization theorists have conceptualized Abernathy's dilemma as the challenge of balancing exploitation and exploration. Exploitation leverages existing knowledge and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2014 (Revised January 2017)
Case

Nivea (A)

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Johann Fuller, Volker Bilgram and Greta Friar

The case describes the efforts of Beiersdorf, a worldwide leader in the cosmetics and skin care industries, to generate and commercialize new R&D through open innovation using external crowds and "netnographic" analysis. Beiersdorf, best known for its consumer brand... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Innovation Management; Crowdsourcing; Big Data; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Research and Development; Social and Collaborative Networks; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Analytics and Data Science; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

colleagues and share feedback in ways that enable them to develop and deliver Take charge of your professional development as you navigate the challenges of transitioning from an individual contributor to a leader Who Will Benefit Early-... View Details

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

Finance offered the perfect opportunity to refresh my core finance skills and interact with a global group of colleagues in an online format that was ideal for my schedule. Praveen Jayakumar Medical Director & Co-CMO at Culinary Health Fund Elevate your business View Details

16 Oct 2015
Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

my time at the Metropolitan Museum as a teenager. At HBS, I am constantly learning from my classmates, who are eager to share their experiences across industries and from around the world. My first year gave me the confidence to approach... View Details

25 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

is especially important when looking at higher-skilled workers, says Kerr, whose new book, The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society, will be released by Stanford Business Books in October. “Today’s View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service

16 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

resources officer choosing how to present health insurance options to employees, first determine the root cause of why poor selections are made. While you might think employees need more time to navigate through alternatives, the reality could be they lack View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Consulting; Retail

20 Dec 2010
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Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

2010 terms, as a share of national income) were scheduled to revert to Colombian ownership in that year. The money to buy them for the new canal effort, then, would have gone to Bogotá instead of the shareholders in the moribund French... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

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