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- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
level of the proprietary Xerox system—at one-fifth the cost. 42 This price performance breakthrough gave Xerox a strategic benefit, reducing the costs of its high-end printers. Subsequently, in January 1991, one and a half years after AWP was incorporated, Xerox bought... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
seeing its real importance. It didn't help that economists also thought that selling was unimportant in influencing markets and that door-to-door selling declined in the United States in the final decades of the 20th century. But scholars... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
for the first time, define and limit. Second, companies that create systemic risk should bear the cost of insuring against it, just as commercial banks pay into an FDIC insurance pool. And the government should insist on appropriate... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
Regina Herzlinger is not afraid to call them as she sees them. And what she sees looking at the American health care industry is a bunch of killers. Not only are hospitals, insurers, employers, Congress, and academics killing health care, they are also killing View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World By: Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. Abstract—The question of how to lead successfully and responsibly is crucially... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Finance in Commercial Real Estate John D. Macomber and Frederik NellemannHarvard Business School Case 212-067 A commercial landlord analyzes options for funding and accomplishing energy efficiency retrofit.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
puts the increasingly complex job of Chief Executive in a very real context. It serves as a practical guide by allowing you to walk alongside Jim as he takes on his new role and all its attendant challenges. Jim's story-developed in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
suboptimal, and they used these insights to start developing their own solutions. It was a real privilege when a Big 4 audit firm that participated in my research gave me direct access to its clients. Across an array of clients I... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
business because they couldn't compete against the Japanese. And the device— Q: This was in the '80s, the mid-'80s. A: This was in '80 —it took three years took a long time. And it was very difficult because they were the memory company... View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
However, most of these investors also trade in public securities. This leads to a controversial question: do institutional investors use private information received in the loan market to trade in public... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
Piecemeal attempts to fix elements of corporate governance will fail. The problem, to illustrate, is not just the structure of compensation. Nor will increasing required capital prevent problems at companies with strong incentives and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
that advice seems to have limited usefulness. The chapter then reviews some common delineations of marketing and sales activities in companies and the implications. Finally, the chapter concludes with a sample of what B2B View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
exporter, had thus far avoided public scrutiny. The company was a key source of employment in many rural communities, had extensive experience negotiating the complex Indonesian regulatory environment, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
progress in the public sphere of work, making it difficult to expose and undermine the social and cultural bases of inequality. Workers were warm and welcoming, generous with their time, conscientious in their responses to our questions,... View Details