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  • 02 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?

Match.com, there's Farmers Only, aimed at rural lonely hearts; The Atlasphere, connecting Ayn Rand fans since 2003; and EquestrianCupid.com, for lovelorn riding enthusiasts. In fact, the $2 billion online dating industry comprises more than 14,000 businesses, according... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
  • 13 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308052 Monitor's Opportunities in India (B): Grail Research Harvard Business School Supplement 708-483 Supplements the (A) case. Describes the decision by leaders of a strategy View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Nov 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is Less Becoming More?

phenomenon benefits producers and consumers alike. But a recent Harvard Business Review article by consultants Mark Gottfredson and Keith Aspinall questions whether there are benefits for producers, particularly those producing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Consumer Products
  • 29 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

office. An executive search professional refuses the headaches associated with leading a practice area. Information technology consultants resist management assignments, for fear they'll become "administrators." Aggressive... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
  • 22 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

New Challenges in Leading Professional Services

Professional service firms—law firms, financial services firms, money management firms, private equity firms, hedge funds, management consultants, advertising agencies—are the most challenging and exciting organizations to lead, maintain the authors of a new book, When... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting
  • August 2022 (Revised February 2023)
  • Case

Braintrust: The Blockchain-Powered Talent Network

By: Christopher Stanton, Joseph B. Fuller and George Gonzalez
A San Francisco startup seeks to disrupt the freelancing industry through its user-owned talent network powered by the cryptocurrency, BTRST. View Details
Keywords: Freelancers; Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Social and Collaborative Networks; Talent and Talent Management; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; United States
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  • May 2001
  • Supplement

Asian Strategies: Ian Buchanan

By: Tarun Khanna
Ian Buchanan, senior VP of Booz-Allen & Hamilton, comments on Sime Darby and the Asian financial crisis. He also discusses the value propositions of different types of business groups in Malaysia. View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Asia; Malaysia
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  • August 1999
  • Teaching Note

Egon Zehnder International: Implementing Practice Groups TN

By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
Teaching Note for (9-398-052). View Details
Keywords: Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry
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  • 05 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: January 5

graduate from HBS in Spring 2009. He must decide whether to join his father's company, Toronto-based AME Learning, as president working alongside his father who will be CEO. AME has been in business for 12 years, mostly as a small View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

strategy (and some consultants who advise on strategy) is that they assume that once you design strategy it gets executed. They don't look inside the process and realize that it's much more complicated. Bower: It's almost as if they think... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

all, he’s someone we can all trust to always do the right thing.” However, romantic entanglements were part of Easterbrook’s story from the start. When the board appointed him CEO, they knew he had a relationship with a third-party View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
  • March 1, 2021
  • Article

Transitioning to Clean Energy Transportation Services: Life-cycle Cost Analysis for Vehicle Fleets

By: Stephen Comello, Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
Comprehensive global decarbonization requires that transportation services cease to rely on fossil fuels for power generation. This paper develops a generic, time-driven life-cycle cost model for mobility services to address two closely related questions central to the... View Details
Keywords: Decarbonization; Electric Vehicles; Renewable Energy; Biofuel; Carbon Emissions; Mobility; Batteries; Energy; Environmental Management; Environmental Accounting; Transportation; Operations; Management; Sustainable Cities; Decision Making; Investment; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
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  • 10 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation

do some sophisticated talent arbitrage” In order to gauge the effect on executive pay, the researchers obtained a data set from a large global headhunting company, one of many consulting firms that act as intermediaries between companies... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 03 Jun 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

take-chance, inspiring leadership. In boom times when it's 'expand at all costs'--pick the American style. At other times the more deliberate, consultative European approach is your ally. Maybe this is why we are hearing more from the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?

inhabited by academics and consultants ...personal advancement may be better served by being provocative than by being right." Others question the importance of the linkage between information technology and the shape of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

and consumer lifestyle products? Philips sent teams of designers, engineers, and consultants into hospitals and clinics to interview patients and a range of providers, from clinicians to administrators and other staff. These teams... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

Firms" presents an overarching framework better suited to such complexity. It identifies the four critical activities for effective PSF leadership: setting strategic direction, securing commitment to this direction, facilitating execution, and setting a personal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

equity—grew from 8 percent to 66 percent. Almost all of that was due to option programs that made relatively poor use of market information and were poorly designed. The compensation committees rely on consultants to provide market-based... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
  • 15 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. Shirley Spence is a writer, educator and former partner at Oliver Wyman, a global management consulting firm. [Image: FG Trade] View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence
  • 28 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Harness Auction Fever

sunk cost and some related business theories. What are the implications for decision making in other business contexts? A: The obvious implications are with regards to the many types of auctions in which businesses participate. For example, companies bid for View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Web Services; Technology

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