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- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
but that makes firms vulnerable to innovative upstarts over the long haul. Would this trend also hold true for companies engaging in business processs innovation? McElheran wondered—a question not much studied by researchers. To find out, she drew on 1999 US Census... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs through a highly competitive fellowship program. The organization agreed to facilitate research on the many early-stage social entrepreneurs who applied to the annual program. The researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
services in-house? Are there cost benefits, and do they depend on size? A: Previous research has shown that advertising agency operations are subject to economies of scale, and hence the advertiser faces a major tradeoff in choosing... View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
analyzing the relevant processes. Part 2 discusses strategic choices, what research tells us about selling effectiveness, and how to translate a strategy into customer-selection and sales-call criteria. Part 3 focuses on core sales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
do on its own. In addition, the research led to a survey of ten other alliances in his new book, The Collaboration Challenge. Austin found that most of the partnerships he studied went through three stages... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
accelerates the decision-making process.” The education and insights flow both ways. Every quarter, Camino releases a research report based on survey data from its loan applicants and documents emerging... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
"When Values Backfire: Leadership, Attribution, and Disenchantment in a Values-Driven Organization." "Our research shows that values must be managed with care," Cha and Edmondson say. Below, they join forces for an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
continues to run the company as CEO), Barna again beat the odds. In 2017 she became a general partner at First Round Capital, an early stage investor in Birchbox. She was the first woman to hold that title in the firm’s then-13-year history. Even today, according to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
according to research conducted by private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
"self-reporting in surveys and focus groups is a limited tool, and I have no doubt that in the future brain scans will augment traditional research methods." But for Mark Spellmann, View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
they often brush them aside in favor of using their own intuition. Sure enough, that pattern emerged in the research team’s survey of 119 full-time workers from a variety of industries: 59 percent said they... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
in a global arena.” Although security concerns limited students’ ability to move freely at several points in their stay, some were able to work around restrictions by involving hotel workers in their market research and, despite a freak... View Details
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
This article is part of a continuing series on faculty research and teaching commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first women to enter Harvard Business School's two-year MBA program. As the first longitudinal examination of the... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
prescribing the advertised drug or no action at all. Q: What research needs to be done on DTCA? Weissman: Our survey adds to the evidence that physician-patient visits involving discussions of DTCA are... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
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Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library
aim to support the research and curriculum of the Harvard Business School today and into the future. Collection activities focus on the career and professional development needs of our MBA students and alumni, as well as on access to... View Details
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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions The Route of the Exhibition New York and Chicago Rockefeller Center, 1934. Museum of the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
changes had any impact in the lead-up to the financial crisis. HBS Associate Professor Suraj Srinivasan and Harvard Law School Professor John C. Coates leverage the benefit of hindsight to assess research findings from over 120 papers in... View Details
- 24 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Trailblazing Success with Global Reach and Impact: Scott Wallinger (AMP 82, 1979)
axemanship, compass, mapping, and knots. During summers in college, I worked in various roles: at a National Forest in Idaho, conducting an aerial/ground oak wilt survey in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and with Weyerhaeuser’s Forest... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
him and one of its board members? Understanding the dynamics of the CEO search process, as well as the ways in which chief executive turnover influences corporate performance, has been the goal of recent research by HBS assistant... View Details