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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
classroom perspective, I’ve retained more content and material that I can apply later on than I thought I would. I think a lot of that speaks to the case method and the way you learn how to apply a concept across different industries and... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
highlight the prevalence of discrimination in online marketplaces, suggesting an important unintended consequence of a seemingly routine mechanism for building trust. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2377353 When to Sell Your Idea: Theory and Evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
influential, and industry less influential, than we commonly assume. How Early Adoption Has Increased Wealth—Until Now Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract Societies that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
organizations in 20 countries, they and their interview team assessed how well manufacturers, schools, and hospitals adhere to three management basics: targets, incentives, and monitoring. They found that huge numbers of companies follow... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Industry By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—This paper seeks to explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated corporations in the late 19th century and the opposing forces that led to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
largely in the hands of those who lead our service organizations. It’s natural that we would look to leaders in the service sector for the same cutting-edge practices that we used to find being implemented in the past in our large View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
capture important information seemingly ignored by the market. A long-short portfolio based on these legislators' views earns abnormal returns of over 90 basis points per month following the passage of legislation. Industries that we... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
Business and Creativity at elBulli WIZARD: Chef Ferran Adrià at the World Summit of Gastronomy in Tokyo. He’s been called “the Salvador Dalí of the kitchen” for creations ranging from beetroot and yogurt ice-cream lollipops to a deconstructed Spanish omelet served in a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
Carson and the New Yorker magazine, which had published the work in its entirety over three issues. During the summer of 1962, Carson’s critics initiated a series of counterattacks, with the chemical industry leading the charge. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
jockey, a year teaching Transcendental Meditation, and several years earning a degree in counseling and working in a hospital outside Boston. Then Kapor cofounded Lotus Development, the company that developed Lotus 1-2-3, which crushed... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
Glover-Stapleton Associates, Inc., which focuses on developing environmental health and safety management systems for companies worldwide in industries as diverse as manufacturing, medicine, and financial services. They moved back to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
best hospitals in Boston,” recalls McCance, chairman and president of the Boston-based venture-capital firm Greylock Partners. “It was nearly 100 years after the disease was first identified, and yet the best physicians in town could only... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
mishaps. Ian Bund (MBA 1968): I was playing hooker in the middle of the scrum, and [two guys] landed on top of me. I got carted off to the hospital with badly bruised ribs. I needed something to pass the time, so a friend brought over the... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
their worth from their multisided platforms (MSPs), which facilitate interactions or transactions between parties. Many MSPs are more valuable than companies in the same industries that provide only products or services: For instance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
2018 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business By: Gupta, Sunil Abstract—Disruption and transformation get a lot of hype and for good reason. Digital technologies have disrupted entire View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
challenge. Who was the company competing against and how could it carve out a unique value proposition that would appeal to travelers and be differentiated from what was offered by other hospitality options? Was its current moniker... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
call out “bingo.” The faculty frowned on this disruption. To meet this challenge, the rules were again changed, and you had to be called on and work the word “bingo” into your participation in the classroom discussion. Some efforts were a real stretch. For example, one... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
Clinic has long had a reputation for medical excellence. But in 2009 the CEO acknowledged that patients did not think much of their experience there, and he decided to act. Since then the Clinic has leaped to the top tier of patient-satisfaction surveys, and it now... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
policy makers can apply these key lessons, many, if not most, of the sagas of waste and disappointment that we have highlighted could be avoided. Entrepreneurs could find a more hospitable climate, and we would all benefit. Barriers to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace