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  • 01 Apr 2014
  • News

‘Management by Walking Around’ programs in hospitals may do more harm than good

  • August 2024
  • Article

Heuristics on Call: The Impact of Mobile-Phone-Based Business-Management Advice

By: Shawn Cole, Mukta Joshi and Antoinette Schoar
There is growing evidence that business training for micro-entrepreneurs can be effective. However, in-person training can be expensive and imposes costs on the target beneficiaries. This paper presents the results of a two-site randomized evaluation of a light-touch,... View Details
Keywords: Training; Entrepreneurship; Mobile and Wireless Technology; India; Philippines
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  • 02 Apr 2018
  • News

Fighting Over Chores? Spend Some Money, Save the Marriage

  • 31 Jul 2024
  • Video

Ed Freeman: Can capitalism adapt to serve a changing world?

  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

2015 Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile: Business Enterprises and Entrepreneurship By: Jones, G. Abstract—This book compares the effects of globalization on two Latin American... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

it is critical to find effective ways to support far-reaching change in both products and processes across our entire economy. My current research focuses on large organizations that are attempting to take advantage of sustainability in order to build new View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Customers Want from Your Products

Marketers have lost the forest for the trees, focusing too much on creating products for narrow demographic segments rather than satisfying needs. Customers want to "hire" a product to do a job, or, as legendary Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott Cook & Taddy Hall; Consumer Products
  • 20 Aug 2019
  • News

Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World?

  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Book

Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs

Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson experienced her first big-stakes professional failure when she was just starting out in her academic career, some 30 years ago, after a decade working in engineering and consulting. Little... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 03 Nov 2018
  • News

Think Saving for Old Age Can’t Be Fun? Try Making It a Game

  • September 2004 (Revised December 2004)
  • Case

Metso Paper: Globalization of Finnish Metal Workshops

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Marikka Heikkila and Kalle Lyytinen
Metso Paper, the world's largest producer of paper machines, aims to transform itself into a knowledge- and information-based service and solution provider for the paper industry by aggressively exploiting information technologies. In the fall of 2002, Jorma Hujala, a... View Details
Keywords: Production; Customer Value and Value Chain; Information Technology; Corporate Strategy; Knowledge Management; Machinery and Machining; Expansion; Service Delivery; Manufacturing Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Finland
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  • September 2013 (Revised February 2016)
  • Case

GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services

By: Heidi K. Gardner and Silvia Hodges Silverstein
Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional time-based billing with data-driven decision making and an online reverse auction. In... View Details
Keywords: Legal Industry; Procurement; Professional Service Firms; Pricing; Competition; Change Management; Supply Chain Management; Legal Liability; Business Processes; Legal Services Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 24 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

international development and microfinance. Today, as cofounder of pathZERO Energy, she’s leading an effort to help businesses transition to cheaper, cleaner, more reliable energy solutions through improved... View Details
  • Research Summary

Entrepreneurial Resources

Mounting evidence suggests that ventures’ early relationships are critical for their success by helping overcome initial resource constraints, improve internal operations, and gain access to diverse audiences such as potential investors, the media, and customers.... View Details

  • 01 Aug 2014
  • News

A High-Tech New Way for Your Boss to Follow You Everywhere

  • 22 Dec 2015
  • News

Bringing ‘Presence’ To Your Life

  • 28 Dec 2016
  • News

Harvard’s New Online Negotiation Course

    Fixing Boston's "T"

    The MBTA faces the same problems that confront every transit system in the world: Riders want to pay less in fares and taxpayers want to contribute less in subsidies. In exchange, everyone wants to receive more safety, more reliability, more... View Details

    • TeachingInterests

    Investment Management Workshop

    By: Luis M. Viceira
    Investing and Strategic Decision-Making for Principals, Portfolio Managers, and Executives of Asset Management Firms

    For nearly 50 years, the Investment Management Workshop (IMW) has convened the world's top principals, portfolio managers, and... View Details
    • 23 Feb 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia

    Asia," held at the Asia Business Conference on February 14 at Harvard Business School. Ever since the public outcry in the 1990s over the wages paid by Nike to its Asian factory workers, the issue of... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna