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- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
approach to teaching defensive positioning drills was probably more effective than if Coach K had come in for half a day and tried to inspire us to keep our butts down and our palms out." On the classroom board, Snook draws three... View Details
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
employment at private equity-backed firms will go up or down even more dramatically,” Lerner says. Next step in the research Lerner and his colleagues are now drilling down into specific private equity firms to see what variation exists... View Details
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
the researchers drilled down into the data, however, they found some marked differences in the ability to forecast success based on the industry of the proposed idea. Expert interest was highly predictive of success in sectors that were... View Details
- 28 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)
of markets were more likely to franchise stores. They then focused on 43 chains that own some stores and franchise others, and drilled down further to the 34,892 stores operated by those chains to ensure that the decision to franchise was... View Details
- 25 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
of lost hours—as well as the search, hiring, and training costs of filling vacant positions—to arrive at a total price tag for burnout from turnover. A not insignificant number Their final estimate, $4.6 billion annually, “is a decent amount that people should care... View Details
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
year after year in a very predictable way, until they suddenly fell off a cliff” in the 1990s, Pisano says. On the other hand, persistence doesn’t necessarily mean fast growth either. Some companies grew very steadily but slowly over a long period of time. How do... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
And what a body of scholarship it was! Al did not invent the subdiscipline of business history so much as he established it as a rigorous and thriving enterprise. He was not the flashy George McClellan of the Union Army, meticulously View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1875682 Cases & Course MaterialsThe Offshore Drilling Industry in 2011 Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Kenneth Corts, and Joseph McElroyHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
exchange for the right to drill in developing countries. But should companies be responsible for government services? What happens when MNC investment moves on? Something has gone wrong with the spirit of corporate social responsibility... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico By: Beshears, John Abstract—I use data on oil and gas View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
portfolio of locations. Collis drills down into the many factors that can affect location and observes how companies typically assign each a weighted percentage: employee availability, sourcing, quality, and cost (40 percent);... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
used that information to predict how often and when a customer may request a car as part of their routine. The model could drill into specific kinds of routines, too: The model identifies seven clusters of typical ridesharing routines in... View Details
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
overall, the companies that were successful had much higher performance. “Putting it into baseball terms, investors who relied on their gut feel had a lower batting average, but more home runs,” Huang says. In the current paper, she attempts to View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
Anderson's collapse, he added: "Audit committees understand that they are in charge. There is now a much better focus on the complexity and risks of business and a real drilling into the issue of coziness [between auditors and... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
tweaked the website, the overall sales conversion rate for buyers actually went up by as much as 23 percent, meaning that customers weren’t just buying higher-priced items, rather, they were buying more items overall. When Teixeira and Ngwe View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211080-PDF-ENG Drilling Safety at BP: The Deepwater Horizon Accident Stephen P. Kaufman and Laura WinigHarvard Business School Case 611-017 Following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico explosion and oil... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
program also touches on the practices used by academic labs to sustain productivity, drills down into organizational models, and reviews methods to help executives deal with the questions of project prioritization. Managing For The Long... View Details
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
Article Two years ago I participated in a disaster drill at Southwest Airlines. It was a simulation of a Southwest plane crash at the New Orleans airport. As part of the exercise, I boarded a plane in Dallas with Southwest employees... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
turn indicate to what degree operating managers can control customer satisfaction. Essentially, we're looking at the entire operating system and drilling down to determine which factors are most important for driving perceptions of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna