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- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
Business sat down with HBS associate professor Walter Kuemmerle to discuss the entrepreneurial process in an international setting. Kuemmerle, a Novartis Fellow, holds a joint appointment in Entrepreneurial and Service Management and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
either system can lead to the subversion of expected relationships in the other. This book rejects the simple equation of capitalism with markets or with trade, in favor of a three-level system that embraces factor markets as well those for goods and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
access to ethical housecleaning services that are worker centered and environmentally friendly. By letting them decide when they will work, how they will be compensated, and even how to adjust safely to a... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device. Pomeranz wrote the paper with Felipe Kast of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Stephan Meier of Columbia University. Pomeranz explains that in Chile, many lack access to the automatic... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
threat of such legal action. Forecasters' reliance on science and statistics as methods for accessing the future aligns their story with conventional narratives of modernity. The German sociologist Max Weber, for instance, argued that a... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
incentives to recall the rules accurately (Experiment 3). Finally, moral forgetting appears to result from decreased access to moral rules after cheating (Experiment 4). Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of Hospitals' Internal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Authors:Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael, and Alvin J. Silk Abstract The common perception appears to be that vertical integration of advertising services is more the exception than the rule in the U.S. advertising industry. This study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
knowledge, is now being embedded into the tools and building blocks used to make products? Willy Shih: Knowledge is one of the core resources in a company, and translating that knowledge into processes that produce products and services... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
Digital Platform: A Playbook for Strategists By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—The ubiquity of Internet access has caused a sharp rise in the number of businesses offering platforms that connect users for communication or commerce.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
regulation would actually increase innovation since it would tend to increase transparency in this field, and provide potential researchers with the data they need. Regulation could also increase access to reproductive services, which... View Details
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
like this.” Concentrate on the best profit opportunities. Small-business owners must identify their most valuable products and services and eliminate everything else. If a restaurant’s tried-and-true burger has a stronger gross profit... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
web-based service or app that once might have cost millions to launch can see the light of day for a little over $100,000. Because of that, an influx of new investors through crowdfunding could potentially allow innovative startups to put... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
favorable court judgment was possible with the right covenants; collecting on that debt was not. Finding "attachable assets" that successful litigants could access remains challenging to this day, since sovereign nations have... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
against and refusing service to WikiLeaks. The attacker and the cause? A crowd (I don't know what else to call it, since it is not an organized group) that calls itself Anonymous and that was spawned by ideas exchanged on an Internet... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
the blink of an eye. Wireless is another enabling technology, allowing the computer and other digital devices to access the Internet and other networks from an ever-increasing number of remote locations. In a business with strong network... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
of practices, "Ask team members what would work for them, their service area, customers, and work colleagues." Stacy Krauss suggests that "Employers who give employees flexibility win in the longer term due to loyalty and a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
service on the Internet "could never have happen(ed) before and pose(s) a threat to brand loyalty." If there is a weakness in your offering you are at risk. Others were reluctant to reach such a judgment. In concluding that this... View Details
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
don’t have to go through an intermediary to access these choices. Some people would contend that the consumer has more control.” Similarly, consumers can have a greater say over how their financial assets are managed—from opting for a... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
Business School Case 613-045 Managing with Analytics at Procter & Gamble Senior management at P&G has put a strong emphasis on using data to make "better, smarter, real-time business decisions." The Global Business View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
Anand Piramal and his team sought to "democratize healthcare" in India through the development of a new service delivery model. If Henry Ford could build and deliver cars to everyone in the United States, Piramal thought, then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne