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- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
culture. In May 2017, Udi Mokady, founder, chairman, and CEO, debated how best to drive growth. He mulled over whether he should stay the course and remain focused on providing best-of-breed PAM for enterprises, both on-premise and in the cloud, or expand into new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
the concept of threat rigidity to the class and explore some of the team behaviors that result from this condition. Book: http://www.amazon.com/Group-Communication-Analysis-Appreciation-Application/dp/0757582958/ref=cm_cmu_up_thanks_hdr... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
accessibility and attractiveness of unauthorized content replication. The threat of p2p is not different in nature, but of much larger scale as it does not require the exchange of a physical support. As a result, the impact of p2p... View Details
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
Motel in downtown Memphis. Although he was just 39 years old at the time of his death, the autopsy revealed that he had the heart of a 60 year old. Thirteen years leading the civil rights movement, suppressing the fear that accompanied daily View Details
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
trillion-dollar plans to attempt to mitigate carbon. Businesses, homeowners, and local governments must focus on what can be done today to address these direct threats to people and property. There are three major tools in the “what to do... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
leadership has been associated with change. It's not about mobilizing a group to act the same way they have always acted. It has to do with changing people and their organizations so they can leap into a different and better future, no matter the View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
reflecting about how the classic, mature thermostat industry was rapidly evolving. In February 2014, Google paid $3.2 billion to acquire Nest Labs, a new startup whose goal was to reinvent unloved home devices, such as thermostats and smoke alarms. Their smart... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
paper identifies performance pressure as a critical barrier to effective knowledge utilization. Performance pressure creates threat rigidity effects in teams, meaning that they default to using the expertise of high-status members while... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
across the financial system if they failed (think Lehman). Financial institutions that pose such a threat are the financial equivalent of nuclear power plants, providing an important service in many cases but also posing a profound danger... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
Mills says. “If small businesses can stay solvent, then we have a greater chance for a recovery after the virus threat subsides,” she says. The grim reality is sinking in. About 77 percent of small business owners say they’re “very... View Details
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
may differ from that in the United States. About the Author Rachel Layne is a writer Based in the Boston area. [Image: Morsa Images] Related Reading The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For... View Details
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
business leaders are using to transform communications with their employees and customers, as it shifts from one-way transmission of information to two-way interaction. That's one reason Time magazine just named Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Person of the Year. “The... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
success was larger for those that were culturally closer to native whites (i.e., Western and Northern Europeans). These patterns are consistent with a framework in which perceptions of racial threat among native whites lower the barriers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
time to establish, making the threat of price wars from competing retailers less credible. Uncertainties, Ambiguities, And Doubt The many advantages of loyalty programs have been well debated in the massive literature available on the... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Ferguson's Formula By: Elberse, Anita, and Sir Alex Ferguson Abstract—When Alex Ferguson took over as manager of the English football team Manchester United, the club was in dire straits: it hadn't won a league title in nearly 20 years and faced a very real View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
for this to happen. Q: There's an interesting phenomenon going on, and that's basically outsourcing fairly complex surgeries to India for much cheaper prices. Does this actually pose a threat to the institutionalized health care system at... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
motorbikes, which posed a threat to the company's core business. Sourcing the technology for these e-bikes, and hiring and retaining the management and creative talent the company needed, were continuing challenges. The case traces the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
continues. By the summer of 2007, the Treasury Department estimates, the shadow banking system had accumulated assets reaching roughly $10 trillion, equivalent to total assets in the entire U.S. banking system. Says Moss: "While new systemic View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
tragedy of the commons at the global scale. Namely, Okada believed the accumulation of debris in near-Earth orbital space posed a serious threat to a vast array of critical satellites and, thereby, both the modern information economy and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne