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- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
not a recommendation to manufacture a false enthusiasm to gloss over problems. Speaking about and to employees' pride has to be authentic; employees will quickly sniff out managerial insincerity, and the manager's communication will... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great ideas can be backed with the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
Professor Janice Hammond, the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing at HBS, was named to the fund's advisory board. "The Women's Venture Capital Fund was referred to me by two highly regarded HBS professors, and it was that... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
a production chain, that maximized output.” Klug admires the way Aoki took command of a key variable in restaurant management: table turnover, or “turns.” “Rocky made the restaurant a theater, with the chef as the star of the show,” Klug says. “When the meal was over,... View Details
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
that information disclosure is particularly likely to spur responses from firms whose legitimacy is threatened (and thus are shamed) and face lower-cost opportunities to respond (and thus are particularly able). Testing this by examining how firms respond when their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
borrowers to restructure their debts. Performing mortgages could then potentially be resold in the secondary market. The case provides cash flow projections in various economic scenarios that are revealing of the economics of troubled... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
competence is complete. . . . I should like to send you a camera and associated equipment and film as a personal gift.” (2) Land asked Adams to serve as a consultant to test Polaroid cameras and films. Assessment of the performance and... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
and scale of this unique global corporation. Geoffrey Jones, a leading business historian from the Harvard Business School, takes us inside this corporation, which from its origins in Britain and the Netherlands has become a worldwide View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
broadly available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52046 October 2016 Business History Review The Rise of Synthetic Colors in the American Food Industry, 1870–1940 By: Hisano, Ai Abstract—This article examines how, starting in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
theoretical models emphasizing the role of managerial myopia. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1603484 The Impact of a Corporate Culture of Sustainability on Corporate Behavior and Performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
theory has developed. To reinvigorate academic interest in disruptive innovation, we propose several underexplored topics—response strategies, performance trajectories, and innovation metrics—to guide future research. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
a dealer’s back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world’s largest automaker, a... View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
while creating new jobs more or less commensurate with the skills of the displaced workers. But things have changed since the technology is now able to think as well as perform tasks It is not easy to convert today's manual laborers to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
had to undertake a complete transformation of how Merck operates," he said, outlining strategies that included stepping up resources devoted to scientific research and marketing, integrating divisions of the company, and heading off problems in the clinical process by... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
maximize their people's performance. Publisher's Link: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam?E=79788&R=10106-HBK-ENG&conversationId=323988 Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
distribution: (1) assistance selecting funds that are harder to find or harder to evaluate, (2) access to funds with lower costs excluding distribution costs, (3) access to higher performing funds, (4) superior asset allocation, and (5)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
tend to rebalance more actively. We find some evidence that households rebalance towards a higher risky share as they become richer. We also study the decisions to trade individual assets. Households are more likely to fully sell directly held stocks if those stocks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
saliency of ethics and morality and leads to significant reductions in dishonesty. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-117.pdf Using What We Know: Turning Organizational Knowledge into Team Performance Authors:Bradley... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne