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- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
continuous moments of joy was the best way of retaining it. Thus, the most captivating ads in the experiment were those that began by surprising the viewer and then went on to make the viewer smile. But successfully capturing and keeping... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
superior product, adding to the probability of success. However, OSS has disadvantages too. Most importantly, it comes from behind in terms of market share (installed base). Because the value of an operating system depends critically on... View Details
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
de-coupling mechanism could allow firms to capture the benefits of being motivated by the threat to their core business, without being bound by its rigidity-producing effects. By separating those who were running the business from the... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
that later crashed to fractions of their peak value. "I don't know what people were smoking, but it wasn't legal, I suspect," he said, adding that many overvalued companies "were in the job of selling stock rather than delivering View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
organizations is also driving the trend, generating “digital trace data”—records of employee behavior captured on devices central to performing jobs everywhere, from the office to the factory floor to the job or delivery site. Spurred by... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
emphasis on valuation and capital structure. Serves as the basis for a bankruptcy reorganization game that has been used for many years in Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring, a second-year finance course. The game is played in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
following: Business’s role as a key player in multi-stakeholder collaboration on adaptation; the explicit ways in which public health and equity must be taken into account in decisions around adaptation; how we place value on the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
funds exhibit no better skill at asset allocation. Furthermore, funds sold through brokers demonstrate more performance sensitivity than funds sold through the direct channel. While the costs of brokers' services are relatively clear, their benefits are not easily... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)
remained heavily engaged in nonprofit work while at the same time starting to explore her interest in business. This time, it was her father’s for-profit business career that captured her curiosity, and an on-campus business gave her the... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 09 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace
Children's Hospital & Clinics of Minnesota COO Julie Morath to increase patient safety at the hospital captures proactive inquiry perfectly: “Was everything as safe as you would like it to have been this week with your patients?” Ways... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
broad social transformation. Second, it is not always easy to see this idea of “social return,” nor is it easy to quantify. The risks of “social business” are high, and likely require some economic cost to capture the View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
viewed compliance as the job of lawyers and conceived of the board's job much more broadly. "I'm more comfortable on some boards than I am on others," one director told us. "Some people have really taken the value of governance, the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
develop a novel framework as a means to integrate and organize a wide range of theoretical insights and empirical findings on brokerage and brokering. The Changing Others’ Relationships (COR) framework captures the following ideas that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
capture an audience most completely. That is the most gratifying feeling.” Jim McNerney (MBA 1975) Retired Chairman, The Boeing Company “I was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the oldest of five. I don’t know if there’s something to... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
features of relational pluralism inside and across organizations. We conclude with a discussion of future directions for research. August 2013 Psychological Science A 'Present' for the Future: The Unexpected Value of Rediscovery By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
partner—Vladimír Železný, an experienced and politically connected television executive—managed to divert the entire value of the underlying entity for his personal benefit. After court battles escalated to the level of international... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
they lend themselves to the risk of hype behind their projections. Most space SPACs crashed in value as soon as they went public, so many investors got a real sense that space is a dangerous place to invest. But, when you talk to people... View Details
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
property" has been a powerful shaping force in biotech. The idea behind monetization of IP is that you don't need to actually develop a product; you can just develop a piece of IP, and then capture financial returns through licensing... View Details