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- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
upgrades, forming hypotheses and conducting experiments with each new version along the way. Intuit adopted such a strategy when developing Fasal, a mobile platform that delivers agricultural market price information to farmers in India. With each successive rapid... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
expertise to collaborate on a project about effective ways people can manage themselves over the duration of complex and taxing managerial tasks—and how companies can help them succeed in this endeavor. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
particularly the weak level of protection afforded by the California courts), it was unclear how effective a policy of aggressive litigation would be. Furthermore, such a policy might reduce Xerox's ability to recruit the best research... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
is increasingly being called on to be part of the solution. How business can do this most effectively is the focus of the GPP's research and scholarly activity. Multinationals Leading The Way While GPP faculty note that it is too early to... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
attrition rate to 13%. The irony is clear: These strategy firms, who are experts at diagnosing and solving a variety of issues for their clients, are struggling to apply their own management principles internally. The problem, however,... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
on average and 4.5% on high earners. We find that the intertemporal elasticity of substitution has a substantial effect on optimal capital taxation. If the intertemporal elasticity is one-third, optimal capital income View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
led cities to digitize more of their own information, putting everything from tax records and public health inspection scores online. “They take a dataset that used to be in an obscure database or on paper, and now it’s available for the... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
building an electrical component. This information instructs local engineers and other local skilled workers concerning key elements of the firm's technology. The reforms we studied appear to be effective because they were sustained,... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
unobserved program attributes. Our focus is on the network television industry, in which the products are television shows. We estimate a model that allows us to distinguish between the direct effect of advertising on utility and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
and women alike rated power as one of the main consequences of professional advancement. Our findings reveal that men and women have different perceptions of what the experience of holding a high-level position will be like, with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
so that volunteers (often customers, but also others) can easily contribute content (opinions and ratings for Zagat guides), "stuff for sale" (eBay online marketplace), behavioral data (Google's search engine algorithm), and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
were extremely effective and also efficient in their use of taxpayer dollars, but most were not meant to be permanent. “Guarantees have proven to be a very cost-efficient government tool when it comes to small business credit” Currently,... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
S&P 500 index and are only marginally higher than the risk-free rate as of the end of 2008. The combined impression from these results is that the return experience of hedge fund investors is much worse than previously thought.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
employment regulation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50041 November 2015 Accounting Review The Effect of Target Difficulty on Target Completion: The Case of Reducing Carbon Emissions By: Ioannou,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
is down, therefore basket size is down—so everybody in the mall is affected by traffic being down. If you have two or three major traffic-driving tenants in trouble, this affects the entire mall. This then creates a domino effect in the... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
to adapt it to an online environment,” says Ngwe. Their study gauges the effect of so-called search frictions that make it harder to find discounted items or require additional clicks by consumers to find bargains. “We want to see how... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
effects inherent in adopting a drastically different operating system, she says. Confused individual users are likely to overload the IT department with "how-do-I" requests. Managers may be late for meetings as they try in vain... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
undermined the company's performance. For all its strengths, it was my impression that Medtronic's culture was too Minnesota Nice. I realized that these aspects of Medtronic's culture had to change if we were going to be an effective... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
explain eight lessons from optimal tax theory and compare them to the last few decades of OECD tax policy. As recommended by theory, top marginal income tax View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace