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- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
before. And anarchy has always yielded back to law and order. In this excerpt from her new book, Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet, Spar looks to history to put the Internet... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
are getting hit hard in the recession. It’s only very recently that we’re seeing the proverbial green shoots. The hotel business is cyclical; it’s managing those cycles that is important. I do think we’re pretty well hedged in terms of... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
parts of the organization. With deficient information and knowledge, you can't put all the pieces together or understand when something might be going wrong. Jay Lorsch: There was a cycle of greed throughout the system, and boards, for... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
of 2.5 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of business cycles with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
securing endorsements from party officials and funds from big money donors. On the other side, Trump, already a media personality thanks to “The Apprentice,” has so far secured $4 billion worth of free media coverage and continues to dominate the news View Details
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
encountering. Drawn from the health-care industry, the research is based on a sample of 69 randomly selected hospitals, 20 of which participated in a three-part cycle of process improvement activities. Focusing on one area of the hospital... View Details
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
listening to others ." Bill Welter opined that " the basic cycle that all thinking professionals (doctors and managers alike) should use (is): to sense, to make sense, to decide, and to act . Unfortunately, too few of us deem... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
market and gain acceptance that might otherwise prove elusive. Although stealth positioning doesn't typically disrupt categories, it can give products a fresh run at the life cycle and keep them from languishing—or dying outright—in the... View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
- Profile
Paris Wallace
monitors and tracks their monthly cycle and suggests the optimum time for baby-making. Its pregnancy app guides women to healthier pregnancies. In its two years of existence, this Boston-based health technology startup has helped more... View Details
- 28 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
go to an indoor cycling class with her. I didn’t understand. The bikes didn’t move – why would I do this? Nevertheless, I went to a class at Flywheel Sports and left feeling better, physically and mentally. While I grew up playing... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 11 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
table were Yosemite, Point Reyes, Grand Canyon, Puerto Rico, Denver, and many other incredible locations. I was in the middle of a few other interview cycles for various health care roles, and I was completely torn. Do I accept the role... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
that what sets humans apart from animal or artificial intelligence is the empathy that stems from an awareness of the life cycle and of human mortality. Panelist Ray Kurzweil of Kurzweil Technologies declared that in the coming decades,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
effort. Because the positive upward cycle is attributed to one's own actions, people begin to believe that it will never end: assertions are made that the laws of the universe have changed, that business View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
development company amid today's roller-coaster economic cycles is a challenge, he says, but challenges are something understands. "You need to say, ‘I'm going to do what's best for the company,' and do what you think is right," he says.... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
gender and work, the paper, An Outside- Inside Internalization of Shifting Gender Logics in Professional Work, identifies cycles of organizational analysis and resulting actions sparked by transformations in societal beliefs and practices... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
suggests that social media may promote knowledge sharing because they allow social lubrication and the formation of trust. Our longitudinal and comparative analysis of social media usage at two large firms indicates that users who participate in non-work interactions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
and acting. He concluded that tactical and strategic victory hinges on cycling through this loop faster than the enemy (or by disrupting the enemy's ability to connect those activities efficiently). The first two elements—observing and... View Details
- November 1999 (Revised July 2003)
- Case
Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc.
By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Pre-Paid Legal Services' business model reveals two key issues--managing the sales force and sales growth and managing claims. Students analyze the economics of the business and consider how to measure firm performance, how to evaluate and reward the sales force, and... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Salesforce Management; Marketing Strategy; Accrual Accounting; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Insurance; Business Growth and Maturation; Insurance Industry
Healy, Paul M., and Jacob Cohen. "Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 100-037, November 1999. (Revised July 2003.)
- Web
VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
and manage patient-level costs over complete cycles of care for a variety of medical conditions. This innovative approach links costs to clinical outcomes in order to identify opportunities for value improvement and develop reimbursement... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
Further, the voting cycle truncates long-term progress. "Government is an interest-group groupie," she said. "Who speaks for the less fortunate? The homeless, for example, are not a powerful interest group." Businesses, she added, "will... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance