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- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
regional law firm, Duane Morris entered a period of spectacular growth led by CEO Sheldon Bonovitz. Originally founded by Quakers, the firm had a distinct organizational culture featuring a number of unique or unusual business practices: a transparent and flexible... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new entrants seem particularly drawn to areas with many smaller suppliers, as suggested by Chinitz (1961). Abundant workers in relevant occupations also strongly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Michael O. Braimah
after graduating in 2007 and stayed for two years. "In an industry that's upside down," he says, "you're forced to draw on inner strengths." Teaching others, learning about himself After two years, "moving at... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
their schedules from week to week provide significant value to America’s estimated 1.6 million gig workers, many of whom don’t work enough hours to qualify for the benefits and protections typically associated with full-time employment. “Flexibility is extremely... View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
They do not punish with sufficient speed and force to eliminate the incentive for misconduct. At a time when the temptation before some managers is orders of magnitude greater than twenty or thirty years ago, the concern is that the... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
their schedules from week to week provide significant value to America’s estimated 1.6 million gig workers, many of whom don’t work enough hours to qualify for the benefits and protections typically associated with full-time employment. “Flexibility is extremely... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
their own work processes even as they collaborate. The New York Times Company has had some success here: NYTimes.com is now the leading source of print subscription sales. And the company's print and on-line sales View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
framework.) The window of opportunity, if you wish, is even larger than it might appear. More specifically, the purchase or sale of whole bodies—not parts—is absent from the Act's provision. Second, the purchase and View Details
- Profile
Terrance McGuire
then go into the venture capital business,” he said. Part of the resistance to joining a startup was the reality of trying to build a company on a shoestring with attendant salaries that were nowhere near the compensation available... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
executives, middle managers, and sales people from companies across a variety of industries. The survey focused on questions about how well their companies’ strategies informed six critical elements of their View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
mutually agreed-upon transfers with compensation and are located within the task network. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
"crammed" the new business into the old business model and sales processes. For example, most newspapers tried to force their online sites to make money by selling the same types of advertising to... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
biggest money center banks, had zero risk of loss. They did not fully disclose what was happening, and they did not put up enough capital to cover potential risks. Now, the FASB [Financial Accounting Standards Board] has overacted by adopting rules that effectively... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
cookies. Annual proceeds from the sale total close to $450 million, $300 million of which supports scouting activity. "If there's a more effective fundraiser in the world, I don't know what it is," Baxter remarks. "But it's also a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
Original Article It was recently announced in somewhat wondrous tones that new car sales in China this past year exceeded one million. Reports in BusinessWeek and Forbes trumpet the growth of China and the size and promise of Chinese... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
Whillans co-wrote a recent article in Compensation & Benefits Review, “Winning the War for Talent: Modern Motivational Methods for Attracting and Retaining Employees,” with Anais Thibault-Landry of the Université du Québec à Montréal... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Normally, the Olympic Games are a positive View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
blown wide open, forcing students, their families, and educators to confront a greater range of challenges simultaneously, among them widening socio-economic gaps, the digital divide, food and housing insecurities, domestic abuse, and, in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
the 1930s, for example, per-person movie ticket sales were seven times higher than at the end of the 1990s. Fox Photos/Getty Images In the sweep of U.S. history, consumption had been a force for great... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Harvard Business Review Putting Sales at the Center of Strategy By: Cespedes, Frank Abstract—Research indicates that relatively few firms execute their strategies effectively, and, on average, companies deliver just 50% to 60% of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne