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- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
important tasks with corporate clients, then, is figuring out what the right questions are. "Managers need to grasp something fundamental," he says. The ZMET method is modeled after some basic theories of the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
level. Yet the corporation's senior management and human resource professionals resisted changing the scheme, pointing out the high quality of junior hires that the firm was making. It was not until 2009 that the firm's management agreed... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
As globalization trends increase, so does the ability of non-governmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam International, and the World Wildlife Fund to shape public and corporate policy on everything from human View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
Behavior and Human Decision Processes Abstract The present research investigated the dual role of cognition as either an enabler of moral reasoning or self-interested motivated reasoning for endorsing sweatshop labor. Experiment 1A showed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909007 Copyright Law in the U.S. and EU Harvard Business School Note 309-052 This note reviews the basic rules for copyright protection in both the U.S. and the EU. It outlines the works... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
Publications In press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes When Doing Good Is Bad in Gift-giving: Mis-predicting Appreciation of Socially-responsible Gifts By: Cavanaugh, A., F. Gino, and G.J. Fitzsimons Abstract—Gifts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
is the right organization to operate the blockchain project. What challenges will the project face? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518089-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-101 WeWork WeWork co-founder Miguel... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Persuasion Author: Eric J. Van den Steen Abstract This paper studies a principal's trade-off between using persuasion versus using interpersonal authority to get the agent to "do the right thing" from the principal's perspective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
People Express Airlines Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lauren BarleyHarvard Business School Case 812-134 Recounts the history of People Express Airlines, which grew rapidly after its inception in 1980 then failed spectacularly in 1986. Profiles People's aggressive strategy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
likely to implement MV proposals after industry-peer firms implement a similar proposal. Finally, proposals aimed at removing anti-takeover measures or instituting certain shareholder rights are more likely to be implemented. With respect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
is expressed in myriad ways, from the success of the Vietnam Memorial Wall to the proliferation of laws extending human rights in every domain. The new individuals have plenty of things. They have access to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
the CFO of Haley-Midland, Inc., dispensed with pleasantries and started right in on her questions for Jim Sweeney, the senior vice president of human resources, and Nancy Walters, Haley-Midland's vice... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2024
- Book
Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech
Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity, Second Edition, published 2024 by Palgrave Macmillan. Copyright (c) 2024 by Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of SNCSC. All rights reserved. You Might... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
long used corporate social responsibility initiatives and philanthropy to improve their standing with consumers. Now there is a new crop of companies that are making health and wellness a business imperative, not just because it is “the View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
If a dike or dam has sprung a number of leaks, there are many possible ways to respond. The initial impulse is to assiduously plug one hole after another, hoping that the situation will right itself. Another approach—and often a more... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
Like many people interested in the tangled connections between health care progress and intellectual property rights, I avidly followed the Myriad Genetics case, decided by the Supreme Court this June 13. In sum, molecular diagnostics maker Myriad sought "the... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
make more sense for a workforce that is older with fewer obligations (childcare, etc.) outside the office? Does it recognize the social needs of many (not all) humans to relate in person to those with whom we are working? We can ask how... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
meltdown is. As Philippe Gouamba puts it, "Is it a partial collapse or a total collapse? What is at risk in this collapse; is it human lives, corporate capital or national pride?" Having asked these questions, he opts for... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
Summing Up In the judgment of respondents to the October column, repeating the development of disruptive technologies is an admirable but elusive target. Respondents commonly asked whether it is a process disrupted by too many factors—some of them a product of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
frequently sprouting up were right along the GQ project, and they were not along other highways that weren’t being developed or were in more rural locations. With that background, we began talking with Ramana about interesting questions... View Details