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- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
Companies change strategy, operational processes, and policies all the time, each shift creating a new group of winners and losers. When Steve Jobs became CEO of Apple for the second time, the culture shifted, with designers enjoying... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
Superwoman Thanks to intense discussions over dinners with alumnae—the first of which was hosted by Welsh in New York—and to later conversations with faculty and other colleagues at HBS, Hart came up with a plan. The result is Charting Your Course, a new program View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
by democratic institutions as they implement their demand management programs or dictate the design of whole new cities to meet energy targets. Yet, even with all of China's "advantages," the EIA/IEA reports tell us the same story. In... View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
problem the product or service should be designed to solve. For example, when Walt Disney was plotting out Disneyland in the late 1940s, he didn't concern himself at first with typical amusement park issues like how many rides to build,... View Details
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
the Harvard Divinity School. She is a world expert on pilgrimages and the author of definitive books about the rivers of India. Prof. Rahul Mehrotra, chair of the department of urban planning and design at the Harvard View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
is all this misconduct occurring now? A: I think it's the confluence of several factors: the use of powerful incentive packages, an exuberance that pushed equity prices to heights that were hard to justify economically and yet were very... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
critical data point and a unique leg up in thinking about the issue. CTrip is one of many companies using experiments to guide decisions, according to Harvard Business School professor Michael Luca. “Executives need to understand when and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
mobile phone penetration, universal availability of unique ID systems, and evolving privacy and data protection laws. It builds on global best practices and promotes the adoption of human-centered design principles, data minimization, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
virtually all the gains to be had go to those that create an ownership culture, by building in participative management and helping employees learn to think and act like owners. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
maximizing regional opportunities. Ghemawat discusses five regional strategies while leaving the meaning of a "region" open for interpretation. This excerpt describes the challenges of designating a meaningful definition of... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
choice, and consumers fight back by rooting out and disseminating pricing policies that seem unfair. The problem is that companies generally think of value as a pie that is rightfully theirs. But value is not fixed, and it neither... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Working PapersGray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing (revised) Authors:Romana Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels, for instance when goods View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
which analysis of the numbers, facts, and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test not only managers’ skills but also their humanity. This book presents a five-question framework—based on the long humanist tradition of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
computer problems on a website, companies that design those interactions purely to cut costs don't succeed. But when they actively partner with their customers to deliver a better service experience," she relates, "that's the... View Details
- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
advantages through their social networks," Cohen and colleagues write. "In addition, laws designed to block these types of information pathways can be effective in curbing selective disclosure. The magnitude of our results... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
market for any electronic product. Historically, Apple was trying to sell to its installed base of Mac users, and that base has never been large enough to amount to a hill of beans. Q: What do you think of what Jobs calls the BMW strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
transport/ride launched in 1967), and numerous airports. However, these systems were largely designed to move a large number of people on a fixed schedule along a track from point to point to point. In today's revival, people movers are... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
Public Sector seminar series, which runs through May, is designed to induce lively conversation, build a community of scholars, and create a research agenda exploring the possible role of the private sector in shaping the institutions of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
pressure—people switch what knowledge they listen to and what they are willing to think about. The subtle process of general expertise crowding out customer-specific expertise was part of what had escaped me when I'd been in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
performance metrics that can be used to run the business. This case gives students the opportunity to develop a framework for thinking about GoDaddy’s business and design performance metrics that measure the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel