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- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
questions of how entrepreneurial leadership and strategy formulation can leverage the opportunities represented by the gaps between what the law says and what the market needs. It provides an opportunity to examine the concepts of power... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
pressured circumstances, such as a layoff, are also less likely to be innovation-driven. These firms tend to underperform in creating patents or bringing breakthrough ideas to market because they often prioritize existence and survival over innovation. This long-term... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
a century (beginning in 1970) in which “intensive” productivity growth outpaces “extensive” growth in output, thereby limiting new job opportunities and further widening the gap between the haves and have nots? What should we make of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
problems in today's workplace. She commented that, "Salary transparency within peer groups is the most expeditious way to bring an end to the gender wage gap that exists in every country in the world (it) will certainly be the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
reporting, and rewarding end and effect—economic growth—than the means and causes of economic growth? Is there too long a lag time between the two to interest managers (and in some cases even policymakers)? Is there too great a physical and psychological View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
identities. "If you have fifteen brands in the men's department, it's not really a brand, it's a name," he said. Barnett said about 16 percent of Barneys merchandise is private-label, with those items often filling in the gaps... View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
In his book, Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work (Harvard Business School Press), HBS professor David Garvin argues that Nike left open a critical gap between encouraging innovative thinking and... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
“second HQ” in India to exemplify our core proposition. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54978 The Impact of Penalties for Wrong Answers on the Gender Gap in Test Scores By: Coffman, Katherine B.,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
for sales. The newest and potentially most powerful linkage between the BSC and ABC is articulated in a book chapter that illustrates how a time-driven ABC model bridges the gap between the Balanced Scorecard's strategy focus and the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
consumption Euler equation, commonly assumed in New Keynesian models. Estimating the model separately for 1979–2001 and 2001–2011 explains why the exposure of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market changed from positive to negative. A change in the comovement between... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
worldwide brand already recognized for integrity and honesty, so much the better. The Globe and Post can fill that need. The objection has always been that there is no way to monetize such a role. Online advertising does not plug the gap... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
collection will be of great interest to scholars of entrepreneurship, international business and business history. Psychology and Experimental Economics: A Gap in Abstraction Authors:Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton Periodical:Current... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
helps bridge the gap between people's moral values and their actual behavior. Combined, the REVISE framework guides the design of policy interventions to defeat dishonesty. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
(conditional) gender gap is largest among faculty members at the highest status institutions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-014.pdf Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
experience, but they’re not set up to gather the anecdotes from all of their staff in order to come up with generalizable insights. So, I thought, how can we bridge the gap between the insights that research is producing with the managers... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
that had introduced an innovation to address a practice gap or anomaly. It then described the innovation in articles, cases, and public conferences and proceeded to help a new set of companies implement the management innovation, which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
http://hbr.org/product/experience-the-finger-lakes-the-groupon-partnership-decision/an/814010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-086 Learning From Extreme Consumers Traditional market research methods focus on understanding the average experiences of average... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
labs and venture capital-backed firms, you see that there are both very real strengths and some serious limitations," Lerner says. "Much of the motivation for writing this book was to bridge the gap between the two models."... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
particular skills and needs. People with ASD may also have little preparation or capacity for the common social interactions required on a daily basis at work. As Sonne and his family adapted to life raising their son, the nature of Sonne's career made him increasingly... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
stages is because smart people are looking at the same data. "You've got big companies that are addressing wide markets and there are gaps in the product portfolio," he said. "Engineers and product developers leave those... View Details