Remote Sensing - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

product enabled customers to turn on motors and lights for different items, such as a car built out of the plastic bricks, with a remote control. However, once the entrepreneur added a feature that turns on lights automatically in... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

Series How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership The COVID... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

19 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo

managers need to arm themselves with information and get ready for what he called "round two" of the Internet. "Don't ignore the dot-com lessons; they're out there," Nolan said. Ever since the dot-com bubble burst, Americans have lulled themselves... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Nov 2024
Book

Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

great sense of their cash flow, the sales they might make, when customers will pay, or what cash needs they could have based on the season or a new contract. Small businesses have low cash buffers, and a miscalculation, late payment, or... View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

deftly: “How to most effectively communicate with all employees remotely and show empathy, while running around with [my] hair on fire trying to save the current business while at the same time trying to shape the future of the company in... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

Invitations to recruiting events Beyond the basics: Seek examples of job descriptions (JDs) and critiques of those you’ve written. Most investors were operators once and have a good sense of how to write a good JD. Investors may also have... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

asking when the set of strategic decisions are exactly the decisions a CEO should control to give effective guidance. It finally shows how a CEO's vision, in the sense of a strong belief, about strategic decisions makes it more likely... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

use of remote patient monitoring services grows—driven by health care limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic—clinicians, payers, and patients face important questions regarding the volume, value, and appropriate use of this care... View Details

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

normal. Robert S. Huckman (@robert_huckman) is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the faculty chair of the HBS Health Care Initiative. Virtual medicine will become a standard option Peter Barrett: View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Mar 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

with our younger talent about ideas they are proposing for our company’s strategic direction? Personally, should I be making use of one or more of these apps that I don’t understand? Twenty-five years ago, there was a sense at General... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

attempts to copy successful services haven’t always worked out. For example, despite Vodafone’s widespread success in Kenya, its effort to take the M-Pesa model to South Africa fell flat. Mobile money operators do not seem to have a good View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

don't know we have can be exciting, efficient, and energizing. Or it can be fearsome, enervating, and subject to mistakes ranging from foolish to fatal. That's the sense provided by responses to this month's column. There was enthusiasm... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

in 2022, Wu and Clough saw a striking connection between the Las Vegas Strip and the digital platforms they had studied over the past decade. “People visit Las Vegas for the sense of hustle and bustle, which is generated by the presence... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

competitors. "All of this creates a sense of urgency if you want to play in this world," says Yoffie. Following network effects, Yoffie discusses value creation and building ecosystems, which is where students look at the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

asserted, "more highly skilled individuals will have to work even harder to make sense of all the material now available to them. And even though e-commerce, IT, and the Internet bring with them great opportunities, the advantages... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

conducted in such geographically diverse settings? A: The best answer to that is that the medium is the message. Tremendous learning occurs just from being immersed suddenly in an entirely different world. Remote settings also enable us... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

09 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

those labs have a lot of smart and thoughtful people, they're often remote from industrial centers and not tightly linked to local ecosystems. And so one of the implications of biotech and pharma is that you'd want to tie these labs more... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

some remote authorities (the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, the European Commission's DG IV) who claim to be patrolling the area, but everyone knows that their guns are not loaded. For cyberspace, it seems, is a lawless realm, a... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

have to ask yourself whether there's enough pie for everyone." In other words, it makes sense to welcome battles for market share that make the pie bigger for everyone; but battling for a bigger slice of a pie that's not growing is a... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

us now. Preliminary results of a study Gino conducted during the coronavirus crisis shows that people with a heightened sense of curiosity feel less stress and approach their days thinking about what they might learn during this strange... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

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