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- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
of systemic issues that have gradually worsened since the 2007-2008 financial crisis. At the heart of the problem lies the consulting firms’ aggressive pursuit of growth as their primary objective, which has fundamentally reshaped their scale and has challenged their... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Geradin Abstract—Many of the largest and most successful businesses today rely on providing services at no charge to at least a portion of their users. For consumers, it is easy to celebrate free service. At least in the short term, free... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
are determined not only by the quality of the product, but also by the incentives of the media outlet providing the review. For example, a media outlet may have the incentive to provide favorable coverage to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
Uncovering Bad Factories All three studies were made possible by a social auditing company providing Toffel with data on more than 40,000 inspections in 66 countries that its auditors had conducted over several years. The first study,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
unique two-sided innovation platform consisting of a global community of over 225,000 developers who compete to write software modules for its over 40 clients. Provides details of a unique innovation platform where complex software is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
knowledgeable about a country, a company, or an issue. Instructors are also more likely to provide closure at the end of a class or unit, with a clear set of "takeaways." Building The Tension In most classes, debate revolves... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
and unpublished data on unconscious thought were included. Our aims were to provide a statistically robust estimate of the effect size of the UTE, to identify significant moderators, and to discuss possible underlying processes of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
discrimination and advertising. For vouchers to provide successful price discrimination, the valuations of consumers who have access to vouchers must systematically differ from-and typically be lower than-those of consumers who do not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
that a lot and I think we're providing some systematic evidence now with this study," Lakhani says. He met recently with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss the work and its implications for firms. Martha Lagace: Given your research... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
ABC provides a simpler and more powerful method. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=106068 Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (A) Harvard Business School Case 306-090 Dana Hall is a private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
You have to have a major part of your value-add in hard-to-replicate areas that require expertise or experience that you can’t just buy off the shelf in some advanced design or manufacturing tool. An industrial design firm was recently showing me some of the new... View Details
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
that provide insights on when and why even people who care about morality end up crossing ethical boundaries. May 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Why Do Firms Have Purpose? The Firm's Role as a Carrier of Identity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
http://www.palgrave-journals.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/jibs/journal/v45/n8/pdf/jibs201443a.pdf Working Papers Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Julian Wright Abstract—Suppose an intermediary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
think there's a movement away from maximizing shareholder value as the primary focus and motivation for a corporation's existence, and toward a growing recognition that companies are economic institutions that provide benefits to many... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
webification of life whereby devices can connect to the "cloud" and provide functions on a mobile, as-needed basis. There is no more need to embed them in the guts of a stationary device. This makes an enormous amount of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
96, no. 2 (2009): 249-264 Abstract This research investigated laypeople's interpretation of their dreams. Participants from both Eastern and Western cultures believed that dreams contain hidden truths (Study 1) and considered dreams to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
for both parties. The billions of successful daily marketplace transactions are an important part of the glue that holds our society together. Good marketers offer consumers choices. Choice stimulates consumption and economic growth and facilitates personal expression.... View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
are some sports more lucrative than others? A: I have not (yet) conducted any large-scale quantitative studies that provide conclusive evidence on these issues, but I did find it interesting to hear Eisenbud point to what appears to be a... View Details
- 11 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers
at work, she should provide greater support for high-performing employees' demands at home rather than assume that simply being on-site in means being productive. These responses won't help every person affected, but generating collective... View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
examine ongoing efforts to forge a public-private partnership between the state government and for-profit developers. The goal is to transform Dharavi into a neighborhood offering desirable, market-rate residential and commercial real estate while View Details