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- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
investment decisions, the use of project finance can also affect asset values. By using project finance, companies get the opportunity to create a project-specific governance system designed to optimize the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
2005 on business solutions for alleviating poverty. The work combines chapters from a variety of perspectives—business, academic, government, nonprofit—to examine the nature of poverty, how the poor can become producers as well as consumers, and the roles to be played... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2019
- Book
Creating the Experimentation Organization
biggest problems in innovation is that it can generate uncertainty, says Thomke. Even in an age of Big Data, companies are stymied by the fact that they don’t know what they don’t know. “If something is very novel, there is little data... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
The Economics of Structured Finance
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
Strategy, published by Oxford University Press. Contributors to the book include Harvard Business School's Clayton M. Christensen, Walter Kuemmerle, and Thomas R. Eisenmann, as well as nine other scholars. Bower and Gilbert recently sat... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
realm. The idea is this: There is a market logic, which has rational economic calculations, and an artistic logic where one is doing something for self-expression. So how do you blend those two worlds? Noma does it by charging a high... View Details
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
to go in the future." Launched in autumn 2006, GMP is a new executive education comprehensive leadership program designed to address the needs and concerns of precisely these managers. GMP's innovative teaching philosophy and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
Carliss Y. Baldwin
Carliss Y. Baldwin is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She studies the process of design and its impact of design architecture on firm strategy, platforms, and business ecosystems. With Kim Clark, she authored... View Details
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
provided by us willingly.” George Yurieff put it this way: “If you are concerned about your privacy and want to somehow protect yourself to some extent, start paying for services which you want to use stop... View Details
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
its own initiative—responsibilities that were formerly not performed by any person or unit in the organization. So, early on the BSC team fills a gap in the management of the organization. While many of our examples are from Balanced... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Competition in Modular Clusters
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
only beginning to learn about these matters. And by the way, we don't have security clearances. The case is based on publicly available documents and information. The role of this case is not to assess how well the intelligence community... View Details
- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
language of thought and expression. It is a language that marketers must learn to speak if they are to understand and connect meaningfully with their customers. Q: How did you become fascinated by deep metaphors? A: We noticed in study... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
also matters in how its disclosures are received. Many restructurings try to improve company profitability two ways, by both reducing costs and raising revenues. Scott Paper Company's restructuring was also View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
"computer-to-computer" communication. By the end of the decade, more than 60 percent of the computer communications will be computer-to-computer. Computer-to-computer vastly speeds up the pace of business. For example,... View Details
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
Investors and market watchers noted Amazon’s less-than-stellar forays into health care, while privacy advocates raised concerns about Amazon’s access to patient medical data. Still others have voiced hopes Amazon will bring much-needed... View Details
- 01 May 2020
- What Do You Think?
Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?
where the culture is thought by management to be one of the organization's strengths. A case in point is Critical Mass, a 24-year-old digital experience design agency based in Calgary, Canada, with 950... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
Kazakhstan at 3.62 percent. Beyond monetary or fiscal policy changes themselves, students were struck by where the actual dollars were spent and how that differed from nation to nation, says Tannya Cai, who coauthored a working paper on... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
health," one health advocate said. Consisting of a small barrel-shaped design that mimics an actual cigarette, the devices vaporize a liquid nicotine solution, which is then inhaled without the tar and carcinogens found in smoke.... View Details