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- 04 Aug 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Effect of Market Leadership in Business Process Innovation: The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption
- 2019
- Article
The Social Desirability of Offshoring: A Swiss Consensus (1945–1975)
By: Sabine Pitteloud
This article focuses on the evolution of the rhetoric and practice of corporate offshoring in Switzerland from the post-war economic boom to the industrial crisis in the mid-seventies. The virtue of a historical perspective on the issue of offshoring is to show how... View Details
Keywords: Multinationals; Offshoring And Outsourcing; Relocation; Labor Relations; Multinational Firms and Management; Labor and Management Relations; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Switzerland
Pitteloud, Sabine. "The Social Desirability of Offshoring: A Swiss Consensus (1945–1975)." Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 64, no. 2 (2019).
- March 2015 (Revised December 2016)
- Case
American Well: The DTC Decision
By: Elie Ofek and Natalie Kindred
In late 2013, telehealth company American Well, which developed a digital platform that allowed patients to conduct online medical consultations with physicians, is considering pursuing a direct-to-consumer (DTC) strategy. Founded in 2006, American Well had, to date,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Telehealth; Telemedicine; American Well; Schoenberg; Boston; Israel; Technology; Online Care; Direct-to-consumer; DTC; Health Insurance; Affordable Care Act; Health Care Reform; Accountable Care Organizations; Technology Change; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Digital Marketing; Strategy; Competition; Information Technology; Marketing; Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Entrepreneurship; Marketing Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry; Boston; Massachusetts; United States; Israel
Ofek, Elie, and Natalie Kindred. "American Well: The DTC Decision." Harvard Business School Case 515-032, March 2015. (Revised December 2016.)
- 16 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advice on Advice
poorly, either by taking the conversation to unrelated tangents or by omitting key information that might cast the advice-seeker in a poor light Misjudging the quality of the advice they are given Once advice-seekers have received... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
suffer, or that you're simply unfair. In reality, of course, it could be that you're representing a constituency that will not accept the deal on the table, or budget constraints might be forcing you to stand firm. Psychologists have found that people tend to view... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 23 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified
measures of local business activity, such as prices and user ratings, provide a new way of studying the economy. This data can provide indicators that gentrification is occurring, forecast an increase in housing prices, and shed new light... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
volunteer before becoming a successful corporate leader. He and his work partner, Robert Saudek, had to deal with defective solar cells, embezzlement, and an Ebola outbreak before finding a smooth path to lighting and power sources for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 2018
- Working Paper
What Is Your Problem? The Importance of ‘Problem Storming’ for Crossing Knowledge Boundaries
By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf
In this study, I focus on the emergent processes and practices enacted when using crowdsourcing to solve R&D problems that experts are challenged with. While the literature on crowdsourcing focuses on the online process, this study looks at the full process that takes... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Juliane Begenau & Erik Stafford NOV 2019 By decomposing bank activities into passive and active components and evaluate the performance of the active components of the bank business model, Juliane and Erik shed light on the bank’s... View Details
- Web
Loeb House | About
ground, reducing the amount of polluted storm water to the Charles River. The renovations also incorporated lighting upgrades to reduce energy usage, such as installation of high-efficiency LED light... View Details
- Profile
Madison McIlwain
are a multitude of ways to solve a problem. What appears to be the “right” answer to them is often a refraction of light related to a lived experience different than my own. Their comments combine to create full-color picture. Section C... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
inner jerk, or focus on themselves will not work in the long-run. In light of this public discussion, it’s important to rediscover authentic leadership as well as examine some of the recent mischaracterizations of it. Authentic leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974
phenomenal,” says Stamps, who interviews several candidates a week, usually via Skype. His eyes light up as he tells about a student who sang opera during an interview and another who had been homeless and now wants to reinvent foster... View Details
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
million fee. The situation came to light when the negotiation leaked. (The dispute was apparently resolved when Wahlberg agreed to donate his $1.5 million to Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund.) This Hollywood soap opera raises an interesting... View Details
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
finance panel, this interactive discussion will aim to shed light on gaps in the capital stack that already—or will soon—slow or obstruct progress on climate solutions. Together we will crowdsource ideas to understand themes, articulate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Engaging Students More Deeply
that’s not all it is. “The dot rug—the kids’ bottoms go in the circle, and they know their physical space,” explains Moskowitz. “It’s much easier for a teacher to manage with the dot rug.” When Greenwood and his case coauthor Coval, the Jay O. View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Again and Again
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Jason Holley Whenever he’s presenting to a large audience, Professor Michael Norton likes to pose this question to the crowd: After you get up in the morning, do you brush your teeth first and then shower, or vice versa?... View Details
- 08 Apr 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It
decision making? Researchers are finding a link between luxury and self interest, an insight that may help curb corporate excesses. Honda Created a Civic for Very Light Jets. How High Will It Fly?How Honda Aircraft Corporation moved from... View Details