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- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
Internet-based companies like Google record every click and keystroke of every customer, analyzing the data to continuously improve their products and marketing. Customers are courted and supply chains are managed via websites, social... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
percent in 2006—a record high. However, it is difficult to disentangle the effects of the flat tax from that of the other reforms. Clearly, a lesson to be learned from Slovakia is that such a drastic change to fundamental tax habits needs... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
company. Sports certainly produces a very high number of prima donnas and big egos, yet I was struck by how many of the winning teams were led by unpretentious people who boosted others. Larry Coker, who had one of the best records ever... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
receptions. However, the NFL relies on new talent, and so the draft goes on. For NFL teams, the acquisition of talent for positions both on and off the field is critical. Groysberg, Hecht, and Naik analysed a 38-year panel dataset of win-loss View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
IEEE Security & Privacy Accountable? The Problems and Solutions of Online Ad Optimization By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Online advertising might seem to be the most measurable form of marketing ever invented. Comprehensive records... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
to regulate them, undercutting the original New Deal strategy of targeting such threats. As a result, the American financial system was left more vulnerable than ever to a major shock." Given this record of regulatory failure and neglect,... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
France. An example of special interest will be the widespread laws against the buying and selling of organs for transplantation. The historical record suggests that while repugnance can change over time, it can persist for a very long... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
prices, both of which were beyond the control of MME. MME was aided by record gasoline prices and ethanol usage mandates in the 2005 energy bill. U.S. ethanol demand is projected to increase; however, corn and ethanol price swings could... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
platforms, but new industries are also springing up around them; witness the multibillion-dollar ringtone business. To record the impact of software platforms on the economy and look to their future impact, David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu,... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
sometimes die. AI, AVs, and saving lives With less emotion behind the wheel, Musk and Tesla argue that automation could address real-world safety problems. As the case explains, motor vehicle crashes kill 40,000 people in the United States yearly. Tesla’s... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
mix of merchandise could be rapidly produced and delivered at high standards of quality. Kenyon's in-store personnel examined merchandise from all incoming shipments. One measure recorded the percentage of items that could not be offered... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
letter from the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) asking him to shut down eDonkey, MetaMachine's popular file-sharing system. In September 2005, more than 30 million users relied on eDonkey to share digital files,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
away from objective valuations and recommendations; in place of these efforts, analysts may be mechanically issuing optimistic recommendations for all firms to curry favor with managers. The dynamics of this game between managers, analysts, and investors experienced a... View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
patient-reported outcomes, at an accelerated pace. These comprehensive sets are integrated with electronic health records and incorporated into clinical practice, and they will underpin internal quality improvement and external... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
(at least indirectly) efforts to broaden the use of electronic medical records to help manage the cost and quality of care delivered. The pending full implementation of the ACA in 2014 meant that providers could not wait for the Supreme... View Details
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
laboratory to study coach-team matching effects. Clear-cut measures of team performance and precise employment records are publicly available, and the set of teams vying for coaches’ services is comparatively small. Controlling for coach... View Details
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
trouble if they don't go well. Perhaps the brand with the most to gain—or lose—is Mother Russia, which paid a record $51 billion to host the Games, and has a rare opportunity to show it has shaken off its economic and political doldrums... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
motto, "citius, altius, fortius" (faster, higher, stronger). In addition, the Olympics are an event-filled entertainment package, launched by the spectacle of the Opening Ceremonies, which drew a record 40.7 million viewers in... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
January–February 2017 Harvard Business Review The Truth About Blockchain By: Iansiti, Marco, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—Contracts, transactions, and records of them provide critical structure in our economic system, but they haven’t... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
(“Roland Garros”) for a record tenth time. Krajicek’s plan for the upcoming edition was to focus his recruiting efforts on five exciting, mostly younger, players, and assemble a group of top-20 players around them—but after Nadal’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne