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- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
is at least a lull in globalization. China’s economic development has increased its costs of production and reduced international price competition. Outsourcing may have seen the end of its rapid growth. And workers may belatedly be gaining wage leverage with very low... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
chômage partiel, under which the government pays a portion of a company’s wages in times of economic distress to limit layoffs. During the 2008-2009 recession, furlough programs were estimated to have saved 395,000 jobs in Japan and... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
rights-based work, where collaboration may matter more than acting alone, an organization's resources would be better used pursuing its mission and developing approximate measures to help it improve, rather than chasing hard proof of impact. Many international NGOs... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Research Summary
Papers in progress
- “The ‘Carbon Club’: Oil Companies, Climate Change & the Shaping of Public Policy”. Conspiracy theories abound, but the roles of the major oil companies in influencing public policy on climate change remain largely obscure. This... View Details
- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
employee theft. A cost-benefit analysis proved that what companies saved in cash and inventory loss covered about 39 percent of the costs associated with wage increases. (So if a company increases wages by $1, it can expect to lose almost... View Details
- 15 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Promises and Limitations of Big Data
financial robots, and passing along the savings to their customers. Luis Viceira explains the rise of "fintech" in a new case study. Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires? Danielle Li and colleagues find that computers make... View Details
- September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Algramo
By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal
Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores... View Details
Keywords: Packaging-as-a-wallet; Plastic Waste; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Reusable Packaging; Alliances With FMCGs To Meet ESG Goals; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Value Creation; Goals and Objectives; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile
Chu, Michael, Monica Silva, and Mariana Cal. "Algramo." Harvard Business School Case 321-079, September 2020. (Revised June 2021.)
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
without suggesting what that might mean for tariff policy. David Wittenberg, saying that he is “loath to offer any advice save to treat the situation gingerly,” saw the US-China relationship as one in which, “The US administration has to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
worries, their personal finances may be in shambles. Most entrepreneurs cut their own salaries as their venture goes into decline, and many have invested their life savings in the startup—along with funds from friends and family. If... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 2011
- Book
Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar
By: Chet Huber
Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details
Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry
Huber, Chet. Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011.
- 01 May 2020
- What Do You Think?
Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?
stimulates them.” She finds it “challenging to implement our ‘flexible’ mindset to our clients’ employees because upper management has not embraced it themselves.” Remote work can help some avoid a toxic culture. Alison Leuders comments, “Reasons why I love it include:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
playing out over the past decade. Our advice to the CEO is to look at IT use through several different lenses. One lens should be focused on improving cost savings and efficiencies. Another should be focused on the incremental improvement... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
drug could treat osteoporosis and thus developed their one-billion-dollar-a-year drug, Evista, while Strattera, a failed antidepressant, was discovered to be an effective treatment for hyperactivity/attention deficit disorder. Second, a deep probing analysis can... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
dry cleaning be picked up and delivered, saving you the trouble of going to the dry cleaner’s yourself. With this digital equivalent layered on top of the standard business model, the third and final layer for entrepreneurs and executives... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
looked to a new "profession of business" for nothing less than saving modern, industrial civilization from itself. As the professionalization project that had provided the agenda for American business education from its founding... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
bankruptcy doesn’t necessarily mean the death of a company, and in fact, it can actually be the very thing that saves a business, assuming the courts can handle the flood that is likely coming. Dina Gerdeman: What impact do you expect... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
will often consider the giant risk but ignore the smaller risks that create friction in the supply chain," says M. Eric Johnson, director of the Center for Digital Strategies at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business in Hanover, N.H. "They'll look at... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
Human error causes at least 90 percent of the 5.25 million accidents in the United States annually. Could driverless cars save lives? Yes, but it may take a long road to get there. “Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are never drunk or tired or... View Details
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
how the bank essentially replaces an expensive part of the operations process for dairy farmers in the Emilia Romagna region of Northern Italy. Besides holding the cheese as insurance, Credem stores and ages the wheels in climate-controlled vaults for the duration of... View Details