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- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
Do companies with reputations for acting in socially responsible ways receive public goodwill when unpleasant news hits? The question of how much (or even if) corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies benefit companies beyond the... View Details
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
that is highly valued by them, but doesn't cost you a lot of money. For example, allocate more services to good customers. This could mean a designated line at the deli counter, or a ten items or less... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
sciences); family background (e.g. birth order and where the executive grew up); career (including years of labor market experience and number of days unemployed); and current... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
research on potential employers. 19. The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to 'Simplifiers' The mass consumption of the 1990s is fast fading in the rearview mirror. Now a growing number of people want to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
and hospitals are starting to learn these lessons, experimenting with new models of care that emphasize more talking up front. Kaplan mentions Oak Street Health, a network of... View Details
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
products, which is costly for retailers, and they may not buy from the retailer again. They might also be costlier to serve given their limited experience with online shopping. Making sense of apparel buying... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
'How will it change? How will it improve in the future?'" The role of IT in this model is essential, said Upton, but the primary managerial effort, which starts at the top of the company, is in managing... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
that existing stores must participate in normal industry growth while the new stores experience targeted revenue growth. The corporate scorecard also measures the amount of cash flow generated and invested.... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
When the pandemic forced employees to flee offices and work from home in droves last year, many business leaders worried that productivity might take a dive. Would remote workers be too tempted by the lures of Netflix or too distracted by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
of the most widely implemented Agile operating approaches) and also a former fighter pilot, draws on his experience of landing a jet on a heaving aircraft carrier. He describes... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
entrepreneurs experience in understanding and meeting loan requirements, negotiating terms, and operating under covenants. In 1998, women who achieved high growth in their businesses had an average of 4.2... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
digital platform, and the increased fiscal pressures created by the worldwide economic crisis. Unfortunately, the educational programs for future health care leaders fail to provide many of the needed skills, according to a survey View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
research, Sucher's team is looking to interview people who have conducted layoffs—or who figured out an alternative. "We'll be focusing on individual experiences of the layoff from a managerial point... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation What does it take to truly change the world? Hirotaka Takeuchi shares the practices that help leading companies turn knowledge into lasting breakthroughs. Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
A: Hamilton really became Hamilton on two occasions: his six years of experience during the War of Independence; and when he was appointed Treasury Secretary in 1789. During... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
rift. But at the same time, the procurement manager is also conveying substantive information regarding his access to price information and experience with this type of order. Substantive acts can be honest... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
Boston’s Experiment with the One Fund,” Harvard Business Review, January 22, 2016. Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Review Press. Excerpted from We the Possibility: Harnessing Public... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
on to a PhD in biology that you might go to a place that's attached to a major medical school. In fact, a higher percentage of individuals go on to doctorates in the life sciences from places like Williams, Carlton, Middlebury—great... View Details