Design Of Experiments - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Sep 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation

strategy is an aligned combination of set-up moves that occur away from the table, deal design moves, and tactics at the table, all designed to overcome the barriers you've... View Details

24 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?

over a little screen. (Usage varies according to the type of smartphone: iPhone users spend an average of one hour and 15 minutes with their phones each day, with only 22 percent View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Consumer Products

05 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

unconsciously gone back to its roots. After leaving Mercedes, Ferdinand Porsche founded his own design firm in 1931 with his son and his son-in-law, Anton Piëch—yes, the father of Ferdinand Piëch View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Incentives and Operational Excellence

cases he studied, the Royal Bank of Canada, ABP "was exactly the wrong thing to do." The Royal Bank launched the experiment of charging its customers for separate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs

Ruiqing "Sam" Cao. That reality is particularly problematic for female entrepreneurs, who are more likely to invent products that address the needs of female consumers. “You could imagine those products being discounted because the men on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

Red-zone or “R-zone” for short. Countries fall into the “business R-zone” when: Credit extended to firms rises for three years at a rate that reaches the top 20 percent of past experience. Stock market returns reach the top third View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

intuits a developing bottleneck in the assembly line and creates a fix before a problem occurs. It's also the CEO who draws on years of experience to solve a strategy imbroglio that has paralyzed top staff.... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

06 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

Ever wanted to judge a Harvard Business Review case study? Here's your chance. In its June issue, Harvard Business Review published an account of the fictional company, DataClear, authored by Harvard Business School associate professor... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

changes are human beings and so the psychology and sociology of change and who wins and who loses has to be designed into the system. Simply put, our concept of OMC is not... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

31 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World

be displayed. Making Niche Profitable Zhu's interest in how different revenue models affect content, consumers, and companies generates a number of interesting "what ifs." For example, what if a company, as a means View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News

June 2024
Teaching Note

Skills-First Hiring at IBM

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah Mehta

Teaching note for “Skills-First Hiring at IBM,” case no. 422-013. View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Human Capital; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Job Interviews; Society; Societal Protocols; Technology Industry; United States; New York (state, US)

Citation

18 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

perfect natural experiment to explore. With the Y2K bubble in the early 2000s, the quota of H1-B visas first increased and then fell sharply, initially expanding and then limiting immigration by skilled... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

01 Jun 2016
What Do You Think?

When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

comments concerning the issue of appropriate starting points for dealing with an organization’s lagging performance. There was little support for an approach that first addresses an organization’s culture, “how we do things around here.”... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

doesn't manufacture—computer memory systems. It makes money by licensing its patented designs to other companies, who manufacture computer memory and sell it to computer makers. Over the course of the 1990s,... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

24 Mar 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

With few opportunities for IPOs, a developing infrastructure, low transparency, and a limited labor market, the environment for private venture financing in Africa could be described as "challenging" at best. Yet if the demands View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

people use various online social platforms, makes some predictions. In the first decade of its existence, Facebook, aided by the broad adoption of mobile devices and fast internet connections, emerged as a... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

01 May 2000
What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

Summing Up Hard-wiring Performance Is Great In Concept...but.... The responses to the concept of promising and delivering results rather than selling products or services are in, and you've agreed that hard-wiring performance is a winning... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

Using a sample of commercial logo design competitions, and a novel, content-based measure of originality, I find that intensifying competition induces agents to explore novel,... View Details

12 Nov 2014
Op-Ed

A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

conservatorship, experts from public, private, and academic worlds concurred: housing finance in the United States was mortally flawed. The private sector reaped the gains while the public sector absorbed the risk. In the aftermath of the... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas Retsinas & Rob Couch; Construction; Real Estate

03 Feb 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?

Clance defines it as “an internal experience of intellectual phoniness.” HBS professor Amy Cuddy in her new book, Presence, sums up the research on one aspect of the impostor... View Details