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- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
new line of business. (Starbucks partners with hot-spot provider, T-Mobile and Hewlett-Packard to offer users subscription plans that average under $40 per month.) We are moving to a time when broadband will be totally ubiquitous, part of... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
triggered by fault lines and coalitions. This review sets the stage for describing novel pathways through which identities and interests, when considered together, can affect team processes and outcomes. Design/approach-We use an extended... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
and the needs of his or her new employer.Not all managers are equally suited to all business situations. The strategic skills required to control costs in the face of fierce price competition are not the same as those required to improve the top View Details
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
When MBAs start the second semester of their second year at Harvard Business School, most have already lined up new jobs--but that doesn't mean they have a clear idea what they want out of the rest of their lives. The same could be said... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
its historic status as a vendor of the Macintosh personal computer (PC) line. Mac sales remained vital to Apple's future, but they now accounted for less than half of its total revenue. The company's line of iPod media players, its iTunes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Hungary: Launching Production (A) This case examines design choices in the construction of flow lines. Flow lines are a popular way of arranging production because they are... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
and Australia; and industries include automotive, hospitality, real estate, manufacturing, and finance. Their biggest concerns fell into five categories: Cash flow and liquidity. “Payments [were] not coming in, but we had to make our... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
describes four broad categories of process architectures and then examines the nature of task assignment that typically would be found in a factory organized along the lines of each process type. It then delves more deeply into work View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating in more than 100 countries with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
MaterialsMicrofinance International Corporation: No, Not Another Microfinance Case Harvard Business School Case 808-104 CEO and founder Atsumasa Tochisako (52) sat in his Washington D.C. headquarters, looking with pride at the copy of a press release that would... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
because he wanted to emphasize the economic ebb and flow that defines capitalism. "Cycles," he writes in his preface, "are not, like tonsils, separable things that might be treated by themselves, but are, like the beat of... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
The alleged benefits of flattening flow primarily from pushing decisions downward to enhance customer and market responsiveness and to improve accountability and morale. Has flattening delivered on its promise to push decisions downward?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
World Wide Web. "Of course it's true that Facebook became popular because it's really good at helping friends connect," Weaver says. "But I think a big chunk of the value of Facebook has little to do with social media, but instead flows... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
moral of this story is not how to do crisis management faster and better in a lightning-fast digital world. It’s that even the nimblest and deftest crisis management response cannot contain the damage of going straight to “call security” and crossing the last View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
an electronic version of a patient questionnaire that had been designed and vetted by a group of subspecialty experts. We integrated that survey into our EHR. To assess the effects of our new EHR system and the new process flow for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
more demanding. Purchase this exercise: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208045 'Shad' Process Flow Design Exercise Harvard Business School Exercise 608-072 Provides detailed instructions to prepare for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
Teams draft channel. All parties will also be dialled into a conference call that will last the duration of the draft. Picks will be announced over the call. If the Microsoft Teams channel is not working, teams can also use the conference call View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
and stockholders. However, this implication is invalid when managers can manipulate information flows that influence short-term stock price movements. Neoclassical economic theory thus fosters a corporate culture that ignores the personal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
and autocratic, generating a heavy flow from the top downward. Your research on Thyssen contradicts this notion. In general, what did you discover about German management that is in opposition to what we thought we knew? A: This... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne