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- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
firm, which utilizes a large distributor base and depends on this individual distributor base to sell its products, giving explicit incentives for these individual distributors to both sell its products and sign up other distributors. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
journals. He was tenurable as a chemical engineer at any major university anywhere in the world in his early thirties. He also wrote a textbook called Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Devices, which was widely adopted and widely... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
massive shift —of the same order of magnitude as the diffusion of globalization, the mechanization of agriculture, the widespread adoption of computers or the diffusion of the Internet and the digitization of almost everything. It will... View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.' " For the past several decades Silk has devoted himself to prying open the black box, understanding the economics underlying the work advertising agencies do: the development and View Details
- 19 Sep 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems
showed, adopting radical simplicity can be the best approach to team creativity. Perhaps the best way to bolster innovation in employees is to draw a curtain around them, literally. It could well be that the best career decision you ever... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
other economic environments. Productivity Leadership and Strategic Investments in Innovation: The Adoption of E-Business Capabilities Author:Kristina Steffenson McElheran Publication:Academy of Management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
current users of core products is introduced: "brand immigrants" who claim to be part of the in-group of core users of the brand and "brand tourists" who do not claim any membership status to the brand community. A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0910.html#wp10-070 When the Name Is the Game Authors:Marco Bertini, John Gourville, and Elie Ofek Publication:Business Strategy Review 22, no. 3 (2011) Abstract In Romeo and Juliet, the fair maiden asks,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
Wittenberg put it, " management will never fix the health care system (it) can promote standardization and mass production (but) the actions of individual managers will have no effect on the overall system," one that as Barry... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
Summing Up In the judgment of respondents to the October column, repeating the development of disruptive technologies is an admirable but elusive target. Respondents commonly asked whether it is a process disrupted by too many factors—some of them a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are no longer adequate to serve as the primary unit of analysis. Over the years, systems of distributed innovation-so-called business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
the Bind of Necessary Evils: Psychological Engagement and the Production of Interpersonally Sensitive Behavior," in the Academy of Management Journal. The researchers joined forces and shared their insights on this tricky topic in an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
acquisition and brand-building, products and services that are often free or deeply discounted, and abundant funding provided by exuberant capital markets."The problem," he says, "is that everyone understands the strategy,... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
Why are so many businesses—though seemingly intent on fostering innovation—unable to get new products through their organizations and into the marketplace? Ed Ludwig faced such circumstances as the new president of New Jersey-based Becton... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900 Author:Aldo Musacchio Abstract How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant past? A substantial literature... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
important." Scott Lichtman agrees, pointing out that "to be efficient in this fast-moving era rather requires longer-term investment in skills and strategy adoption by longstanding employees ..." On the other hand, Ryan... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Importantly, these past track records also predict divergent future real outcomes in patents, patent citations, and new product innovations. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/dimalco.pdf Paying It Forward:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
adopted a functional perspective, a concept that [University Professor] Bob Merton and a number of us have been working on for the last fifteen years. The functional perspective posits that if we want to understand financial View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the adoption of basic management practices, with the U.S. having the highest size-weighted average management score. We present a formal model of “Management as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
consumption fluctuations faced by individuals, households, and firms. Yet much of this promise remains unrealized. In this paper, we study the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product designed to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace