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- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
rest of us. An imaginative, tech savvy caregiver we employ in our home dreamed up a business based on an unsatisfactory personal experience. Despite her lack of formal training, resources, and investment, she devised a way to test her idea, order the necessary... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
PensionBee in 2014 to address this lack of continuity and introduce transparency to an industry that’s known to be convoluted and confusing. The company is able to track down a customer’s pension plans and consolidate them into one, which can be managed by a View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
identify and discuss key determinants of successful resource integration in terms of complementary resource mobilization and internal integration. The paper employs a relationship marketing and service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Creighton Taylor
me to business, because as a business person, you need to adapt to new environments quite a bit.” Even as Creighton majored in music in college, he nurtured his interest in numbers. After graduation, he spent three years in a variety of sales and View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Venture: A Welcome Assist
says. There’s also the fact that “we’re probably all going to age into the group that I’m building for right now,” Bervell acknowledges. The Fine Print A company can download TestParty’s tools, which automatically scan source code for its websites, View Details
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
Our new data help to address important questions related to innovation and long-run growth dynamics. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52130 Harvard Business School Case 517-108 Tequila Patrón Tequila Patrón was one of the most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention on another locus of learning that has received less attention from academics despite popular interest: learning by supplying. Using a detailed panel dataset on supply... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Illustration by Marcos Chin It’s market day in Barrio Curtidores, which means the main thoroughfare is packed with shoppers perusing makeshift stands that offer everything from jeans and blenders to vegetables and tacos. Moto-taxis... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Reichheld, maintains that it isn't new market forces that make loyalty so elusive in the digital arena — it's faulty leadership. Applying his breakthrough loyalty theories to the digital economy, the author shows that the Web can actually... View Details
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
What Deep Metaphors Reveal About the Minds of Consumers Authors:Gerald Zaltman and Lindsay Zaltman Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2008 Abstract Why do advertising campaigns and new products often fail? Why do consumers feel that companies don't understand... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
acquisitions of companies that were important providers of transaction software in the retail and hospitality industries. Now, in late November 2013, Nuti and his team were considering a third potential major acquisition: Digital Insight, a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
officials convened events to involve companies in their region. Today, in the aftermath of market quakes and earthquakes, America needs another national campaign, this time to mobilize big companies to power... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
other organization." Austin's hope for these new alliances is that "greater interaction will result in productive two-way learning: corporations can be enriched by finding out how nonprofits mobilize and motivate personnel, while... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
mobile application. We currently offer destination information on Washington, D.C., Chicago, Boston, and London on the mobile app and hope to cover as many as 150 places. Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011) Jana Care —... View Details
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
the following century. Firms employed marketing and marketing strategies to diffuse products and brands internationally despite business, economic, and cultural obstacles to globalization. The process was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
the Smartphone Addiction Published: May 14, 2012 In her new book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone, Leslie Perlow explains how high-powered consultants disconnected from their mobile devices for a few hours every week-and how they became... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
companies such as Sony and Matsushita) led to the migration of R&D in consumer electronics to Japan (and later to South Korea and Taiwan). As consumers demanded ever-smaller, lighter, and more powerful (and power hungry!) mobile... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
Illustration by Joe Waldron Illustration by Joe Waldron Back in 2010, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole embarked on a two-year randomized control trial with Nilesh Fernando, then a PhD candidate at Harvard, to evaluate whether a mobile... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
Fran Seegull by Jill Radsken Fran Seegull is a woman on a mission, and it started with a paper she wrote at Harvard Business School. A lifelong passion for philanthropy brought Seegull (MBA 1998) to HBS, to see if she could mobilize the... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace