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  • 02 Aug 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

the relentless quest for adaptation and improvement in the so-called technology sectors seems to fuel the need for experimentation, the nature of experimentation in other sectors, including the high hazard/high reliability industries, may... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

local municipality. We have to update it nearly every day as things change. It’s almost impossible to operate a restaurant like that, and consumers are confused—they don’t know how to behave.” Adoption of specific reopening protocols and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 08 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

hoc process at many firms. Most adopt a simple decision rule: look at the best reps, and try to hire more like them. But you'll never have enough stars for all sales positions and, in fact, don't want stars in all jobs. In any... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

large information technology firm. We find significant interaction effects between being of the same sex and being in the same business unit or same office on dyadic communication rates, though not with same job function. In an extension,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

associate professor of technology and operations management, their paper—available for download—is titled "Noncompetes and Inventor Mobility: Specialists, Stars, and the Michigan Experiment." What they found: While noncompetes... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • September 2012 (Revised May 2015)
  • Case

Philips-Visicu

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Natalie Kindred and Sara M. McKinley
Would the advent of global payment models and ACOs create sufficient demand for a telemedicine offering covering the care continuum, from hospitals to the home? This was the decision facing Royal Philips Electronics (Philips), the Netherlands-based producer of... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Philips; Visicu; Telemedicine; eICU; Accountable Care Organization; ACO; Bundled Payment; Hospital To Home; Patient Monitoring Devices; Home Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Communication Technology; Quality; Safety; Performance Productivity; Performance Capacity; Performance Efficiency; Consumer Behavior; Emerging Markets; Health Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Netherlands
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  • Winter 2021
  • Article

Mobile Internet Usage and Usage-based Pricing

By: Jeffrey Prince and Shane Greenstein
Using data on mobile Internet usage of thousands of individuals, we provide some of the first analyses linking mobile usage to key demographics such as income. We find a reverse-U relationship between mobile Internet usage and income—notably different than the... View Details
Keywords: Mobile Internet Usage; Pricing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Demographics; Income; Price; Strategy
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  • 22 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

advanced analytics that incorporate artificial intelligence (AI). “Chung has seen companies dramatically improve productivity after adopting advanced analytics to guide compensation.” In an ideal world, a company would use trial and error... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 12 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

company matures, but keeping it clear and not wavering too often is critical. When I was the chief technology officer at DigitalOcean, our True North was to empower developers to build great software, and our guardrail was simplicity. If... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 13 Nov 2019
  • News

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

Keywords: Artificial intelligence
  • Web

HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

multiple industries. Stewart joined Google in 2006, driving adoption of digital technologies within the C-suite in the United States and globally, and is now board partner for Google’s Gradient Ventures.... View Details
  • 13 Jun 2011
  • HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

In many developing countries it's common for a person to have a mobile phone but not a bank account. In fact, more than 1 billion people fit this description, and the number is only likely to increase. To that end, many companies are considering how to give residents... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications
  • November–December 2015
  • Article

Active Postmarketing Drug Surveillance for Multiple Adverse Events

By: Joel Goh, Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir, Mohsen Bayati and Stefanos A. Zenios
Postmarketing drug surveillance is the process of monitoring the adverse events of pharmaceutical or medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical... View Details
Keywords: Drug Surveillance; Health Care; Stochastic Models; Queueing; Diffusion Approximation; Brownian Motion; Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis
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  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

EPOC, and highly sophisticated software that can translate a person's emotions, cognitive thoughts, and facial expressions into digital outcomes. Emotiv wants the technology to be adopted by mainstream... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?

Media outlets large and small have adopted digital paywalls to augment dramatic declines in print revenues, but given their negative effect on website traffic (and, in turn, online advertising), are paywalls an effective sales strategy? A... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting
  • Web

Online Management Course | HBS Online

Differentiate between the myths and realities of management, and learn how to adopt and leverage processes to your advantage. Highlights Managing vs. Leading Columbia Space Mission Case Process: The DNA of Management Show Hide Details... View Details
  • 17 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

free-for-alls in which anything goes in the name of “being yourself.” Rather, they clear space for individuality alongside conformity. They even adopt a somewhat paradoxical stance, seeking to generate collective alignment and ensure a... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • Web

Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

leadership of James Austin on the importance of collaborative relationships to the success of nonprofits and Allen Grossman and V. Kasturi “Kash” Rangan on new directions in nonprofit strategy , we adopted a problem-focused approach... View Details
  • 17 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet

Older Internet users may remember the battles over the commercialization of the Web in the early 1990s, when the first Mosaic browser was introduced. Back then, pioneering adopters passionately condemned the first Web advertisers and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising; Publishing
  • 18 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

requirement that’s expected to go into effect next year. How is this wave of regulation going to affect the market? Kominers: Some regulation is probably good for the industry because in order for crypto to reach mainstream adoption and... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology; Technology