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- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
owe their life's blood to PARC—Adobe, SynOptics, VLSI, and 3Com, for example—together recorded a market value last year five or six times greater than that of mother Xerox. "By focusing too narrowly on its core, vertically-integrated... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
and people don't like buying or paying for it. Therefore it takes skillful marketing to attract the attention of people and motivate the desired purchase behavior you are looking for." Amidst the generally dismal track record of the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
power plants. Accounting standards required utilities to record the present value of projected D&D costs as a liability. However, there were many uncertainties associated with these estimates given the actual cash outlays that would... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
utilizes data from households across the country that install a set-top box alongside their television that analyzes second by second what family members watch. At the same time, Kantar records everything that is shown on every station,... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
radio—featuring recordings of actual calls for help. Whereas individual car makes and models were usually marketed separately, Huber's team wanted OnStar to have its own distinct brand across the fleet. "The car brands in the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
Kerr says. Patent Effects To determine whether an increase in H-1B visas led to an increase in innovation, the researchers looked at data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, examining patent applications and grants through May 2009. While patent View Details
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
consumer." The Personal Book software program is one tool that helps Nordstrom's sales staff do this. In it, they can record personal information about their customers, including size and color preferences, birthdays and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
by the businesses, in my view. Instead, it was a measurement error, resulting from the inevitable uncertainties of assessing early-stage technologies. Nevertheless, having three out of thirty-five projects turn out to be "positives" is not a bad track View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717430-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-033 A Note on Healthcare IT and Applications to the Healthcare Industry This note provides an overview of three key healthcare IT areas: electronic medical View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
Personalities Teixeira discovered the keys to attraction and retention through a series of lab experiments where participants viewed real ads that Teixeira selected from YouTube, while a camera recorded their facial reactions. They had... View Details
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
meat in California to bans on dwarf tossing in France. An example of special interest will be the widespread laws against the buying and selling of organs for transplantation. The historical record suggests that while repugnance can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
record US$1.9 billion, but the firm, led by Zhang Xin, refocused in 2012 on a “build-to-hold” strategy in an effort to capture the long-term value of its properties. Zhang also saw an opportunity to capitalize on the rapidly growing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
Abstract—As trust in government reaches historic lows, frustration with government performance approaches record highs. We propose that peoples’ perceptions of government and their levels of engagement with it can be reshaped and enhanced... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
(EC) issued an antitrust judgment against Microsoft Corp., levying a record fine of 497 million euros ($613 million) and mandating changes of commercial behavior and bundling of Windows Media Player with Microsoft's Windows operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
sit back and let business decide what is best. This might prove to be a wise approach. Governments have a mixed track record when it comes to encouraging investment in specific technologies. Different countries are taking very different... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
most also influence their decisions. Q: Why did you decide to pursue an analysis of these decisions through cases? A: As I began on the path to explore these financial decisions, it became clear that conventional methods were insufficient. Public financial View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
in our old electronic medical records, we had never asked questions about swallowing. You couldn't even tell from those records when and whether a patient was eating normally, which of course is important. So all of this gets to the fact... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Abstract—Although documenting everyday activities may seem trivial, four studies reveal that creating records of the present generates unexpected benefits by allowing future rediscoveries. In Study 1, we use a "time capsule"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
violations. Despite ubiquitous scholarly references to Coleman's theory, little empirical work has directly tested it in large-scale natural settings with longitudinal data. We undertake such a test using records of norm violations during... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
for a company with Palm's record and prospects. Handspring's birth, in July 1998, was huge news in the high-technology industry. Dubinsky and her colleagues had made an enormous success of PalmPilot and its operating system, and that core... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg