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- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
complicity between workers and management. Perhaps most surprising of all, Anteby argues, is that the practice may help some organizations be more effective. Homer making keeps teams together and skills sharp during idle times in the... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
PhD. in biochemistry, said that even though issues regarding intellectual property and patent rights are ever more complicated by new discoveries, the language of the court remains very broad. However, there are a few basics to keep in... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
"My response was that there's a big difference between a really great product and a company," she said. Given the constraints of costs and the problems of marketing, to cite only two factors, "Starting new businesses is a much more View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been intrigued by recent developments in the financial services... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
more complex, even more complicated given the fact that there is often geographic distance between the employee themselves and their parent. And so when we think about the supports that are going to be important, it is going to look... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience
big factor for us when socializing.” Even without the new complications Covid-19 has inflicted, creating a meaningful HBS social life while managing family time requires students to be a little creative. Kuni Kambe (MBA ’21, Old Section... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Administration at HBS, likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been in-trigued by recent developments in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
try to invest in or buy Party City to thwart efforts that would potentially erode both businesses? If they did, should Party City remain a standalone company, or should it be merged with Amscan? Would Party City even come to the negotiating table? These questions, plus... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
selects among potential SSOs and how the final standard is shaped by the sponsor's and SSO's design. Sara Grant: In your paper, "Certifying New Technologies," it appears that things are becoming a lot more complicated when it... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
with these messy, complicated sets of challenges. My focus for participants will be on questions such as: What is the role of activists in transforming organizations? What is the game plan for getting your action started? and, How do you... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
develop 25 gigawatts of solar power by 2025. “It takes empathy to do this work, to work with different stakeholders and make sure they are heard. The work is very challenging, complicated and sometimes frustrating. But the tangible... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
necessarily the best way to organize an industry. This is a fixed-cost business, and it has some fourteen hundred players. Talent and technology get fragmented, and that hinders cumulative learning. And with discoveries happening in separate firms, a whole series of... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
business of "daily deals"- in which retailers offer a heavily discounted product or service available for purchase for brief (often 24-hour) windows. The case explores the complicated sharing of risks and rewards between... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
empirical settings. The organic cluster identification methodology we propose is especially useful when researchers work in global settings where data available at different geographic units complicates comparisons across countries.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
help consumers and make markets more efficient. Yet, the effectiveness of disclosure policies can be undermined if firms strategically make unfavorable information unnecessarily complicated to understand. To explore the incentives for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
approach of creating a dedicated sales force for Ultrasound. This choice was complicated by the matrix organization structure of Philips where regional general managers (GMs) had profit and loss (P&L) responsibility for the entire... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
leading center for diabetes care, clinician training, and research. The incidence of diabetes is rising precipitously worldwide, challenging quality of life with its complications and rapidly accelerating health care expenditures for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
the frustrations that can emerge as we talk to people who work with or study strategy is they read these ideas and say, "OK, so the resource allocation is complicated and it can get in the way of the execution of our great strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
can often find better solutions through crowdsourcing—inviting experts in various fields to work on complicated problems and provide fresh ideas, Lakhani said. And those crowds don’t necessarily have to be huge, either. “We can find... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
it or not, almost all of us have been complicit in the unethical behavior of others. In Complicit, HBS professor Max Bazerman confronts our complicity head-on and offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding psychological and other... View Details