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- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
energy to get there. Dafny: Or maybe they don’t have the strength of conviction that it will work. Hospitals have also largely been really focused on themselves: Where do we want to practice? How do we... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
list of opportunities. With an amenable burn rate and enough throws, the venture will indeed stumble over value, but those "hits" can blind management to the limits View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
recommendations being made to restore trust? A: I think a lot of the recommendations will turn out to be helpful—whether it's trying to either ensure rotation of engagement... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
institutions seem to get far behind because they identify a need, then take a lot of time to develop curricula, find teachers, etc.” Aim was even more blunt, saying, “By the end of the year most probably... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
education will be able to understand the risks," he says. The Role Of Financial Sophistication That said, the researchers did assess the role of financial sophistication on the... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
that of the DAX 30 (but not much more) is the exception to the rule. That means potential global investors in such companies will have to deal with actively involved owners or families, rather than managers.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
gig workers,” the researchers write. The politics of gig work Aside from studying whether gig workers would be willing to sacrifice pay in exchange for having the freedom to set their own hours, the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
The CEO's key to a successful earnings call with investors? Crystal clear communication. Earnings calls are typically held after the release of quarterly earnings, allowing company executives a chance to brief investors, analysts, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
sponsors need to develop an a priori view of how solutions will be evaluated. Both of these activities are non-trivial, and the best scientific minds struggle with clearly... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
right now. They need to be reliable and safe. You're in them all the time. Some cars, particularly German cars, will be on the road for twenty to twenty-five years. And yet these are mass production goods." "Our whole society is... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
Can leaders anticipate disaster? How Does Disaster Change Leadership Goals? Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival On a trek across Antarctica, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance became trapped in ice. How did Shackleton lead his... View Details
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
still have options, says Mills, who led the US Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013 and was an Obama cabinet member. Getting through the coming months will require extreme ingenuity and shrewdness from business owners, and... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
the largest IOC rights fees come from NBC Universal, which paid $1.18 billion for the 2012 Games, and will pay $4.4 billion for the next four Olympics through 2020. So, combine the excellence of multi-sport... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
It's a startling idea: Instead of relying on regulators to protect our privacy against telemarketers, data miners, and consumer companies, we should capitalize on the value of our personal information and... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
We all know how political influence works: company X donates money to politician Y, and then that pol leans on regulator Z to go easy on his new best friend. In economic parlance, that circle of back-scratching is known as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
series of experiments in the HBS Computer Lab for Experimental Research. The results showed that the key to success in grabbing and holding the attention of viewers lies in evoking a carefully timed mixture... View Details
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
are legal fees and recruiting costs for hiring immigrants, and that kind of stuff will quickly wipe out any underpayment that a firm would get off a $50,000 salary. So I don't have the belief that firms are... View Details
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
disagrees. Key concepts include: Most B2B marketers cannot economically address thousands of small businesses using the traditional direct sales force. If left unattended, individual managers will each do... View Details
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
Starbucks' announcement that it will close 600 stores in the United States is a long-overdue admission that there are limits to growth. In February 2007, a leaked internal memo written by founder Howard Schultz showed that he recognized... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
myself, perceive of business history as playing a central role in enhancing our understanding of key issues in contemporary management and business administration. The book provides a position statement... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell