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- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
motives, our paradigms, and what we are willing to accept and ignore to get what we think that we need." C. J. Cullinane was concerned that "This trend (service sector relative growth) will indeed... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
Akron, Ohio tire cluster—to try to discover how Akron companies turned into what he calls a "community of inertia." Drawing as well on research by other scholars, including Harvard University Professor Michael E. Porter, Sull's work provides a new way of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
“completely revolutionized our business in terms of operations and streamlining,” Cleary says. With a relatively small $20 million in robo-advised accounts, “the effect on the revenue side was minimal, but the positive effect on the cost... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
environments. Further, this effect is larger when (i) there are greater cross-border frictions between the parent and subsidiary and (ii) the parents are relatively more involved in their subsidiaries' investment decision-making process.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
One-Year Action Plan Update - Advancing Racial Equity
started. Thank you all for joining me today. Srikant Datar: Great to be with you, Brian. Terrill Drake: Thanks for having us. Jan Hammond: Thanks, Brian. Brian Kenny: Terrill, you win the good sport award for being here to talk about this, but I View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
in the biggest population centers like Los Angeles, New York City, and Detroit, the regions “lost substantial relative grounds,” the researchers write. Researchers parsed patents across eight time periods, ultimately examining 1,559 of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
relatively soon? How will the Metaverse affect productivity? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. Editor's note: Heskett explores the leader's role in his upcoming book, Win From Within: Build Organizational... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Prita Kumar
person who makes the same mistake twice.” Being an entrepreneur requires a strong emotional and psychological makeup. How are you handling the ups and downs of the relatively new experience? I feel most happy when I’m making... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
Japan was most competitive internationally — such as cars, video products, and robotics — government played a relatively minor role. By contrast, the country was least competitive in industries such as chemicals, aircraft, and software... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
spontaneity should lead her to attribute it special meaning ("Why would I think of him in this moment unless it is important?"), and it should consequently exert a greater influence on her judgment ("I must still have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
find that relative to face-to-face service, customers who use self-service channels for a greater proportion of their overall transactions, are either no more satisfied or less satisfied with the service they receive, depending on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Help the Black Community. And in this episode of Skydeck, Rogers and I talk about the makings of America's racial wealth gap, why he thinks it is a root cause of the nation's racial crisis, and the tangible steps necessary to help erase... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
When you think about which countries have produced the greatest management innovations, the United States and Japan are likely to top your list. But it was Germany in the late 1800s and early 1900s that was a cauldron of innovative and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
is progressing daily. You can't settle for the typical schedule of drug discovery and development. So forget the drug companies. We'll form our own. “Well, you can't just tell me that at nine o'clock at night and think I'm going to go to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
weight is assigned to the various answers. “I think people would be surprised just how different the methodologies are,” says Brian Kenny, chief marketing and communications officer at HBS whose office manages the data requests that... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
was the fastest coach to 50 losses in league history. Some observers, such as Bill Williamson of Forbes, believe that the 2019 coaching cycle dredged up relatively weak talent, especially among the younger, riskier hires. Of the eight... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
on riskier projects and strategies. But risk management must overcome severe individual and organizational biases that prevent managers and employees from thinking deeply and analytically about their risk exposure. In this paper, we draw... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
his coauthors, correct some of the misinformation, describe how the thinking on the subject has evolved, and discuss the utility of the theory. They start by clarifying what classic disruption entails—a small enterprise targeting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Until the nineteenth century, the scope for applying (imperfectly) competitive thinking to business situations appeared to be limited: Intense competition had emerged in many lines of business, but individual firms apparently often lacked... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat