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  • 09 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

observational study included all patients undergoing a head CT between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014 at a large, urban academic ED with over 100,000 visits per year. The primary study outcome was total cycle time, defined as the elapsed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2009 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

Spain: Can the House Resist the Storm?

By: Diego A. Comin
On September 16, 2008, President Rodriguez Zapatero recognized the severity of Spain's macroeconomic situation and clearly pointed to the culprit in front of the Spanish Congress: "Let nobody doubt it; there is already a wide consensus about the origin of the crisis:... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Economy; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; System Shocks; Spain
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  • December 1996
  • Supplement

Cleveland Turnaround: Leadership in Action

By: James E. Austin, Jaan Elias and Andrea L Strimling
Consists of three separate parts. Part 1, The Cleveland Turnaround, describes Cleveland's decline until its bankruptcy in 1978. This is followed by the remedial actions taken by community leaders, starting with the election of a new mayor, the formation of new... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Business Cycles; Development Economics; Urban Development; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Cleveland
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  • 13 Nov 2014
  • Blog Post

Finance Conference Recap

inevitable cycles of the industry as well as his optimism in the ability of financial institutions to adapt to the deluge of regulatory changes seen since the financial crisis. His discussion was followed by a selection of panels, which... View Details
  • 01 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 1, 2006

Innovation Life Cycle Author:George F. Westerman, Warren McFarlan, and Marco Iansiti Periodical:Organization Science 17, no. 2 (March-April 2006): 230-238. Differing bases of competition in early and later stages of an innovation's life... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

methods, such as multiple-case inductive studies and traditional methods of causal inference. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55043 Quantile Forecasts of Product Life Cycles Using Exponential... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Crisis and Creativity

"I'll be happy to give you innovative thinking. What are the guidelines?" © The New Yorker Collection 2005 Leo Cullum from cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff, recently echoed Machiavelli when he said, “You never want a... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
  • 18 May 2011
  • News

U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?

Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the wage gap between the United... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing
  • 04 Dec 2020
  • News

Hour by Hour

Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) spent the first 10 years of his work life as an hourly wage earner, moving from one minimum wage job to the next, often unable to transfer learned skills or training to his new roles. The View Details
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data

decade, however, influential manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble and Campbell Soup initiated such partnerships to help smooth production cycles and improve profits. Retailers were wooed by the potential efficiencies of better inventory... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
  • October 29, 2011
  • Other Article

Upstream Sovereigns

By: Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych
With all the focus on Europe, it is easy to ignore the argument that global imbalances remain a drag on economic recovery. This column decomposes international capital flows into public and private components and claims that upstream flows from emerging to advanced... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Business Cycles; Balance and Stability; Capital; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Short Takes

development cycles and can't respond in mid-project to changing customer needs. But there's a solution to this dilemma, according to HBS assistant professor Stefan H. Thomke and Donald G. Reinertsen (MBA '79) of Reinertsen & Associates in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
  • 02 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

apart. “If this cycle continues, whole retail chains can quickly become full of zombie stores” Taken all together, lower price points, decreased traffic, and smaller baskets means lower sales and margins for brick-and-mortar stores. Given... View Details
Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail
  • Web

FAQs | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

positions includes but is not limited to: 5 U.S.C. 5379 and §931 of Public Law 110-315 of Aug. 14, 2008. Am I eligible for the program if I am in a term position (including a position in the HBS Leadership Fellows program)? The annual program View Details
  • 14 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

business services team effectiveness, and overall case experience. It is becoming part of the culture—the future of BCG." The Cycle Of Responsiveness: The Root Of The 24/7 Habit The reason PTO can be so effective for both... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

    Leading with the Long View

    problems and situations that happened decades ago, and at the time people thought those same mistakes would not be repeated. But you see similar mistakes cycle around years or decades later. In more traditional courses, you are trying to... View Details
    • Web

    Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog

    receivables financing. Course Content and Educational Objectives The goal of Entrepreneurial Finance is to help managers make better investment and financing decisions in entrepreneurial settings. The course covers all stages of the venture's life View Details
    • 01 Dec 2017
    • News

    Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction

    constituents rather than donors; and opening up competition as early as the 2018 election cycle to centrist, solutions-oriented independent candidates, among other recommendations. “We citizens bear the ultimate responsibility for knowing... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; Government
    • 01 Mar 2016
    • News

    The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation

    Harvard Innovation Lab, and HBX take hold, they are attracting targeted donor support, freeing up unrestricted resources for new opportunities. This cycle of investment allows the School to act quickly and thoughtfully to foster... View Details
    • 04 May 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

    cycles The crisis demonstrates, painfully, the importance of cash. In his famous essay "The Yield from Money Held,” the economist William Hutt described cash in your pocket or on the balance sheet as “a fire engine when there are no... View Details
    Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes