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- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
strategic focus if it was to improve margins and top-line growth. They wanted someone who could continue to build the 4,000 employee, $1 billion company and who could execute. In addition to making numerous... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
algorithms dramatically outperformed existing assignment methods—improving on the status quo by up to 50 percent with respect to predicted employment—while the other successfully placed refugees in a balanced way across available host country sites, while also View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
by author, album, or genre, and provides a better navigation experience. Digital encoding quality varies widely in p2p networks, but it has continued to improve over the years and in many cases surpasses... View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
spending may involve continuation of the payroll tax holiday as well as improvements in this country's infrastructure. Politicians' pledges to resist restructuring entitlements or to rule out raising... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
continued and expanded, with further empirical exploration of a distributed model of innovation that includes communities and platforms in a variety of contexts and with the development of theory to explain the economic underpinnings of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
disaster that killed over 1,000 factory workers in Bangladesh in 2013 highlighted to Western consumers the challenging conditions faced by the workers who made their clothes. Consumer pressure on Western retailers worked its way back up the supply chain to force View Details
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
capitalize on its innovation: strengthening antitrust and intellectual property rights enforcement; improving the legal infrastructure (e.g., producing more corporate lawyers); lowering barriers to entry for foreign investment; and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
establish a demilitarized buffer zone under the Egyptian flag rather than continue a vain zero-sum search over where to draw the boundary line in the sand. Although shared interests matter, Sebenius says, skilled two-dimensional... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
opportunities to develop skills (“crucible experiences”) and a greater motivation to relocate out of the challenging context. We also find that managers deployed to a challenging context early in their careers continue to experience... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
have a better understanding of how both commercial and non-profit organizations can contribute to improving not only society but also the economy as a whole. According to the SEI, the nonprofit sector comprises 7 percent of U.S. gross... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
improving the practice and quality of leading has never been greater for those responsible for preparing future leaders, the sense of urgency and commitment is palpable. Third, after spending only a few minutes with such a group, you... View Details
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
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: Can "lean" productions methods improve... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
improved forecast accuracy, the value of their research about the spun-off subsidiaries is more limited. For both diversified firms and their spun-off subsidiaries, analysts' research is more valuable when information asymmetry between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
additional relief—and soon—providers and policymakers should expect much greater disruption in insurance coverage going forward.” Some 60 percent of small businesses offered health insurance before the pandemic. Through June 15, 95 percent of those View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
where top execs tested whether the current business model was robust enough for the challenges lying ahead. While LEGO has sold toys in Asia for three decades, there is serious potential to improve market share and maybe even outgrow... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
a set of practices to guide firms as they adopt ambidexterity. Senior leadership is crucial here. We discuss the importance of leading in a consistently inconsistent fashion. Readers will come away with a new understanding of how to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
sharks can affect efforts to save them. “Negative public opinion and fear of sharks continues to hinder conservation efforts,” says Elizabeth Keenan, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit of Harvard Business School, and a co-author... View Details
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
social, cultural, and legal environment. Given the prospect for continued movement toward competition and the propagation of "best practice" management ideas on a global scale, is the question largely academic? What do you... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
Abstract In the continuing quest for business growth, many CEOs are turning to their CIOs and IT organizations because technology is absolutely essential to two compelling sources of growth: innovation and enterprise integration. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
and subscriptions. By 2010, for example, nearly 75 percent of Lincoln Center's $53.5 million operating revenue—excluding revenue from facilities operations—came from contributors. Attendance continued to decline for the youngest Americans... View Details