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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
ice-cream business, they set their sights low. “Originally, we thought maybe we could become the leading ice-cream company in the San Francisco Bay Area,” recalls Rogers. “We had no sense of geographic expansion.” The pair turned out to be savvy managers. Within four... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
as breaching those values. Obviously, greater agreement about the values' meanings would have helped to prevent their reactions. At the same time, we believe that leaders should not clamp down hard on how employees interpret corporate values, because it is in the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
that internal agglomerations have a positive impact on location. The effects of internal agglomerations vary by activity, and they arise both within an activity (e.g., among plants) and across activities (e.g., between sales and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
solutions to known problems, the founding team formed an emergent goal that presented an innovative solution to a new problem and became the basis of the new company's business model. We analyze this process to explain how, under... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
every business and nonprofit segment. Conventional approaches to strategy development and problem solving no longer work―there is no stable industry or market equilibrium structure that we will return to “when change abates.” Most company planning View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Agarwal Abstract—Machine learning process technologies usher new questions regarding their potential complementarity with existing human capital. Within the context of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office examination process, our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
experience and performance fails to find a consistent effect of diversity in experience on performance. The problem is that diversity in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base but also creates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
customer service. In 2006, the firm was limited by manufacturing capacity, but this constraint would be lifted when a new plant expansion came on-line in early 2007. Tiitinen was positioning the firm to increase sales in countries such as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
worldviews may conflict during the process of business innovation. After researching the movement of Internet and computing pioneers among various organizations during a period between the early 1960s and the mid-1990s, the authors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
Featured Exercise Conduct ratio analysis to compare performance across multiple companies 6-8 hrs Module 3 Introduction to Forecasting Formulate the forecasting process into distinct steps and forecast corporate performance from condensed... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
better have clarity because there’s so many people whose feelings and emotions and fear can make you change course. So that was my process and I recognize that could look very different for other people. Flint: You mentioned the kids and... View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
media content. Raises issues of how technology interacts with creative processes and outcome possibilities, and also invites discussion of strategic and organizational questions raised by the very different business models of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
notes in this manner will likely increase. Technology also assists on the processing end, enabling class and section correspondents to communicate with classmates with greater ease than ever before and to submit their copy seamlessly to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55632 forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
broad sell-off in the shares of grocery retailers and suppliers. Behind the precipitous declines lay recognition that Amazon’s bold move into brick and mortar assets offered transformational opportunities. Amazon could gain expertise in perishable product View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
well documented, little is known about why norms of silencing conflict evolve. To explore this evolution, we draw on an ethnographic study that spanned the entire life of a dot.com, starting with its founding and ending with its sale to a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
selection, and creating separate committees for professional practice, ethics, and compliance and operations; and enhancing its ethics and compliance program through human resource processes (e.g., recruiting, orientation, training, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
changes that have revolutionized their use in practice. He contends that both serve the US economy by helping troubled companies stay viable by giving them time to find new financing, renegotiate unfavorable leases and supply contracts, or expedite View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
industrial ecology literature that highlights the environmental benefits of by-product synergy. By-product synergy is defined as the conversion of a firm's waste stream from a manufacturing process into valuable feedstock for another... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
out on the big screen, he adds, those moments are often highly visual, with no lines of dialogue. Even then, however, Singer is putting words on the page to guide the filmmaking. “A script is a sales tool,” he says. “Movies are... View Details