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- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
Disney, the team started churning out new products and ideas to leverage the brand's untapped value. A line of LEGO-branded children's wear was created and a division of the LEGO Group was charged with pitching book, movie, and TV ideas.... View Details
- Web
Building From the Bottom Up - Managing the Future of Work
and high churn for companies. As companies struggle to fill positions in the post-Covid recovery, they will need to invest in retaining and nurturing talent—especially for the lowest earners who perform the most critical tasks. Read the... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- HBS Case
College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need
who possess not only the hard skills to do technical work, but soft skills, such as communicating and managing, the note asserts. On the flip side, employees who are over-educated for their work tend to leave their positions quickly, creating View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 15 Nov 2022
- Book
Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work
earning billions, kept churning out its pills. By now, this story is a familiar one. But what is less well known is that the company had help not only from management consultant McKinsey & Company, which sold advice to Purdue on how... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- Portrait Project
Ryan Yu
In my dad’s paper factory in Malabon City, Philippines, I spent hours being chased by dinosaurs. I took a cardboard box, taped on an old clock, flipped an hourglass, pulled a plastic lever, and went back in time. Stationed beside a giant machine that devoured brown,... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details
- 22 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
we need to improve our profit,” he says. For example, a US industrial service company was losing 20 percent of its customers every year. Through research, its leaders realized that when customers stayed with the company for six months, their odds of leaving declined.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Marketing Science , September–October 2021) with Nitin Mehta, Param Singh, and Kannan Srinivasan. 2021 Eva Ascarza : Finalist for the 2021 Weitz-Winer-O'Dell Award for “The Perils of Proactive Churn Prevention Using Plan Recommendations:... View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
for prediction and for forecasting something that is unknown.” The rise of big data and machine learning offers infinitely more fuel to churn out probability forecasts, which can serve as an entry point for businesses looking to harness... View Details
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
increased job churn (which will occur), with no significant gain or loss of jobs. The problem generally is that the benefits of globalization flow largely to investors and consumers while workers bear a disproportionate share of the... View Details
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
One might expect first-time entrepreneurs to pick up speed as they churn out more products, but new research finds that nascent firms typically launch second products six weeks later than originally planned. What’s more, with each... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
detritus bobs on the waves. Nature has restored order. Within MacDonald, surely another storm was churning throughout his life, an inner conflict about the role and conduct of commerce. He recognized business as a fact of life but... View Details
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Press / Media
By: Karim R. Lakhani
Can America Invent Its Way Back?
BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008
Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
Managing Churn to Maximize Profits with Aurélie Lemmens, an associate professor at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management. They propose a new method to target customers that potentially boosts a company's profits in a big way—by... View Details
William Irrgang
Irrgang continued Lincoln’s strong financial performance - weathering two recessions while maintaining productivity and securing Lincoln Electric’s leadership position in the arc-welding equipment and supply business. Irrgang’s conservative business practices enabled... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- Web
Patients - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Insist providers provide their results with patients like you. Choose cost-effective health plan structures involving deductibles together with HSAs to save for future health care needs Seek a long-term relationship with a plan instead of plan View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Day 116 was bizarrely poetic. Or poetically bizarre. And not just because I was an HBS grad participating in his second strike. To that point in last year’s... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
industry, suddenly ripe for disruption,” she says. Ruggiero cofounded the Sports Innovation Lab in late 2016, determined to ready the industry for the revolution. The lab is a research firm, but it’s not churning out quarterly white... View Details