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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
remedies, and between discrete campaigns and continuous processes for managing retention. We identify several areas of research where further investigation will significantly enhance retention management. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
Brown University, in the hope that they will adopt it and fund his company, EverTrue. He lacks the technical knowledge necessary to make the prototype himself, and so has to quickly decide on the best option. He is considering multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
collaboration rather than command and control as their basis for interaction.. “Over the long term, organizations filled with empowered employees who collaborate to serve customers will consistently outperform hierarchical organizations”... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
selling valuable and scarce products are more likely to have separate primary and secondary markets and will therefore appropriate more value when secondary markets thicken. Firms selling products that are not valuable and scarce View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
Technology and Operations Management. The case was rolled out to the entire first year of the MBA program comprising close to one thousand MBA students. “It was probably one of the most passionate case... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
Jr., who teaches the MBA elective The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature, adds, "What we're seeing is an increasingly felt need for people to integrate the spiritual dimension of their lives into what they... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
belief that one can talk about errors without risk of punishment—and problem-solving efficacy—the belief that the organization will support employees' system improvement efforts—were positively correlated with frontline system improvement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
Starbucks claims the world's largest Wi-Fi network, with some 2,200 stores offering wireless connectivity to latte sippers for a charge. That number will climb to 3,000 by year's end, according to the company. Darren Hostin, of Starbucks... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
(IMM), a measure of the social value created by a company per equity dollar invested. If a company fails to meet the IMM threshold, Rise will not invest in it. The case finds McGlashan and Maya Chorengel (HBS View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
session called "Institutional Foundations," sometimes drawing in questions from among the approximately sixty audience members, mostly MBA students, who attended the March 8 conference. ...trying to build institutions is like... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
budgets. These include affirmative budgeting (full influence), consultative budgeting (moderate influence), and authoritative budgeting (low influence). When organizations communicate that employees will be involved in budgeting,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
business side, too.” Elberse interviewed Johnson, Garcia, and several members of their team for her new case study, “Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson,” which she taught for the first time last month as part of her second-year MBA course, and... View Details
- 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
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
regulations. Dean Donald K. David of Harvard Business School; Merrill Griswold, the President of Massachusetts Investors Trust; and several other prominent industrialists and lawyers mounted a successful campaign to relax the laws of... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
the Bajaj Group in India; Güler Sabancı, head of the $14 billion Sabancı conglomerate in Turkey; and Manu Chandaria, chairman of the multimillion-dollar Comcraft Group in Kenya. Growing In A Slow-moving Economy Rahul Bajaj In his interview Rahul Bajaj (HBS View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
play interference in OnStar's early years, it never would have succeeded, Huber maintains. Today, he shares that experience with MBA students to illustrate a key lesson: If you try to do something profoundly disruptive within a large... View Details
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
do not hold for one network: Twitter. Looking at who uses Twitter, which restricts users to 140-character messages, Piskorski and student-researcher Bill Heil (HBS MBA '09) found that 90 percent of Twitter posts were created by only 10... View Details
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
selling accounted for Barack Obama's victories in the 2008 and 2012 elections. Advertising was critical only in a close election—George W. Bush's (HBS MBA '75) victory in 2004. There was no one-size-fits-all marketing approach that swayed... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman