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- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
That approach is obviously critical to an understanding of how businesses work, but equally important, as Professor Koehn has indicated, are the human beings who make the decisions that create and sustain enterprises. I wanted to use a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
observed variation in payout patterns over time than the traditional motives. The most recent evidence suggests that further insights can be gained from viewing payout decisions as an integral part of a firm's larger financial ecosystem,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
School’s Hong Luo, an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit, studies entrepreneurship in Hollywood. Like other entrepreneurs, screenwriters struggle with the decision of how to advance their product. Should they pitch just a story line... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
process? I think that these sorts of scenarios, along with doubts about the effectiveness of recent US foreign policy decisions regarding Syria and Iran, have had a negative effect on how we're viewed by business and government leaders in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert over the different segments of their production processes. We describe a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
particular CSI story involved lost revenue on hotel payment transactions. Analysis of data suggested that after a customer had selected a hotel, filled in the travel and billing information, then clicked the "Buy Now" button, a... View Details
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
move signals the importance of partnering to a firm's strategy, facilitates efforts to transfer learning across projects, and helps to standardize methods for selecting and managing partners. Q: Can you give examples of companies that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
Strategies By: Pomeranz, Dina, Cristobal Marshall, and Pamela Castellon Abstract—Reducing tax evasion is a key challenge for governments around the world, particularly in developing countries. This paper presents a methodology to generate information to optimize audit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
Colgate. Policy Bundling to Overcome Risk Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510071-PDF-ENG DR Corporation Roy D. ShapiroHarvard Business School Case 610-049 DR Corporation is a manufacturer of major appliances. The traffic manager is facing a decision of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- April 2025
- Case
Thrivent: From Insurance Agents to Financial Advisors
By: Hubert Joly, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Tom Quinn
Thrivent, a midwestern financial services company with a centuries-long history rooted in Lutheranism, had reached $10 billion in revenue mostly by selling life insurance. In the 2020s, however, CEO Terry Rasmussen began a transformation process centered around the... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Forecasting and Prediction; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Job Design and Levels; Human Capital; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Insurance Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Minneapolis
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operating in a coordinated manner. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
in the multi-agent settings in which these decisions typically occur. In this paper, we develop a model that extends neural nets techniques to capture recognition processes in groups of decision-makers. We use the model to derive some... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
scores frequently used in scientific peer review (similar to existing minimally important differences for scores in clinical medicine). To our knowledge, the magnitude of score change required to change editorial decisions has not been... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
change in the information set for employees when the incentives and decision rights remain unchanged. Also examines the tradeoffs front-line employees face as they divide their efforts between reaching new customers and increasing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
slow to change, and fraught with obstacles to learning. We describe “strategy-as-learning” to contrast with the traditional concept of “strategy-as-planning.” Practicing the work of organizational strategy as a learning process implies eschewing a set of firm View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Sadun Abstract—Many senior executives struggle to describe how they make strategic decisions. That’s a serious problem since the process for making strategic decisions can shape the strategy itself. To understand better how companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
returned to debt within six weeks. One to two years after intervention, treatment individuals were borrowing at the same rate as control households. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54587 Show or Tell? Improving Agent View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
to illegally hack into the phones of select individuals. That these hackers seem not to be News of the World employees illustrates the Russian nesting doll model, which contains the seeds of moral hazard, since it allows for the... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
employers in general and how these specific legal agreements may impact the situation in this case. In addition, the case includes issues around dealing with venture capitalists, non-disclosure agreements, as well as how to select and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace