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- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
realities of the global economy, fosters leadership, and uses citizen-diplomats to befriend moderates in troubled regions and business networks to ensure success in the major emerging economies; and (6) building community by stressing national and community service for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
demonstrated ways to ask questions in order to create specific goals. In the example of the HCZ, he advised them to define which poor children they plan to help. He went on to ask: What are the ages of the target children? Exactly what... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
something missing. He was actually contending with far deeper concerns than how to gauge distance from the blackboard. He was young, the same age as some of the students he was trying to teach. He didn't believe in a lot of the teaching... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
geographical and physical condition.” KevinJFichtner focused on implementation. “Anyone at any age can be inspired to accomplish something that is truly important to him or her I think it depends on how the goal is incentivized.” Ed Hare... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
Abstract—Google Flu Trends article of November 2008 heralded a new age for big data where it is possible to leverage the vast amount of data to speak for itself, without theory or expert knowledge of the subject matter. However, in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
information to suppliers to maximize efficiency of the supply chain. This idea, which my colleague Steve Bradley and I have termed "sense and respond," correlates to the Industrial Age notion of "make and sell." Today... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
ask because they’re naturally more curious, given that curiosity peaks at ages four and five. “When my child asks, ‘Why is the sky blue?’ I turn it around and say, ‘Why do you think it’s blue? How can we find the answer?’ Maybe before the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
Big Business in Japan Authors:Anthony J. Mayo and Mayuka Yamazaki Publication:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 10 (October 2009): 30. (Conversation) Abstract At age 74, Yoshiko Shinohara is a towering figure in Japanese business. She has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
Professor Zuboff, in your previous book, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power, you wrote eloquently about the advent of computers in the workplace for individuals, organizations, and society. In 1988 you wrote,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
relative talent based on which school they had attended. They also looked at age at graduation, reasoning that a student who was accepted at a top school after only a year of exam training was probably more talented than a student who... View Details
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
total of 2,687 people (196 groups) were included in the experiment. (The average age of the participants was 44, and they had about nine years of education.) Prior to the study, 68 percent of the participants did not have a savings... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
For decades, Shabana Azmi has been a leading actress in Indian cinema. She has starred in many of that country’s most popular and acclaimed films, including the groundbreaking Fire in 1996, about a lesbian relationship between two sisters-in-law. At View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
Many of us learned at an early age the expression caveat emptor, or let the buyer beware. The phrase conjured up an image of a roiling, rollicking market that consumers best entered equipped for battle and prepared for disappointment—or... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Petrom's legacy as a state-owned company, such as lack of investment, aged assets, operational inefficiency, and bureaucracy while successfully managing the triangular partnership between the acquirer OMV, acquiree OMV Petrom, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
post-process off-line inspection to establish proof of quality. The area that is seeing a lot of growth is the in-process stage of volume manufacturing, where feedback control can help ensure that parts are made to specification. The Industrial Metrology Group at Carl... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge? Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet As a consumer, do you like frequent prices changes? Share your insights below. View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
Age of Mass Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—In this paper, I show that political opposition to immigration can arise even when immigrants bring significant economic prosperity to receiving areas. I exploit exogenous variation in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
away from performance begins at age 4 (when ToM begins to develop), years before children enter puberty. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/chaplin%20norton_2de36765-4cc2-4d54-9c92-4247b2d2a189.pdf August... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
different in scope and age and mission: the Clark Foundation and Pfizer pharmaceuticals. These two organizations wanted to get rid of trachoma by the year 2020. "They both had very specific and clear core capabilities. Pfizer had... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
want to dive into some of these subjects in more depth you can. Two animating ideas guided me: What are the most interesting, engaging, and telling stories of the last 150-plus years of business? How could I relate them to readers in the View Details