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- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
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 change over time, it can persist for a very long... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
earlier than when the match was operating. It became customary for GI program directors to make very short offers, rarely exceeding two weeks and often much shorter. Consequently many potential fellows had to accept positions before they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
pricing—a phenomenon that admittedly makes no rational economic sense. When presented an opportunity for a freebie, "classical economic theory says you should pay nothing," says Santana. "Why View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
mindset he changed. That takes more time than one might imagine because of the entrenched culture in place. The second thing was empowerment. Every single recruiting decision (in the country) was being done by headquarters. That doesn’t View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
the reasons why state-owned enterprises listed in stock markets manage to attract investors to buy their shares (and bonds). In this article, we examine this apparent puzzle and develop a theory of how legal and extralegal constraints... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
mountain in the world or how many zeros you tally up in your portfolio. New levels of human performance take us closer to the gods and set the stage for what we hope is excellence in our own DNA. These moments also make good copy.... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration; Ramana Nanda, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration; Abhiman Da, of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; and Arti Grover and Ejaz Ghani, both of... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG (B): Made in Germany, "really play off the idea of what exactly Porsche is and what it stands for," says Fear. Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking's bet-the-company decision to branch out into SUVs, combined with opening the Leipzig plant,... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
we refer to as "options embedded in the design." Any design, modular or not, has an option embedded in it. At minimum, you can accept the design of any system or reject it. Modular designs, however, are unique in having many options, because the modular... View Details
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
80% of the wineries in the U.S. break even or lose money. An even greater percentage lose money on an economic basis (i.e., after a charge for the cost of equity). Tegan Passalacqua is a successful, young, Californian winemaker who specializes in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
What did people do before ATMs? That's a question that causes most twentysomethings to draw a blank. They don't remember the days when people conducted their banking—face-to-face with a teller—between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays. The idea of View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
and gift certificates for post-pandemic gatherings. Large businesses and state and local governments need to make small business contracting a priority. Biden administration policymakers and mayors from the Bloomberg Harvard City... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
account, we present six studies, conducted in the field and in the lab. A pre-registered field experiment indicated that diners were 21.1% more likely to buy a bowl of chicken noodle soup when a sign revealing its ingredients also... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
exception. Yet providers and payers continue to try to stymie competition. Many are actively pursuing consolidation, buying up market share, and increasing their bargaining power. In this article, the authors argue that health care payers... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Management Service Operations: What Have We Learned? By: Field, Joy M., Liana Victorino, Ryan W. Buell, Michael J. Dixon, Susan M. Goldstein, Larry J. Menor, Madeleine E. Pullman, Aleda V. Roth, Enrico Secchi, and Jie J. Zhang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
way out of pension plans, while still making good on their obligations.” Although companies often match those contributions, they are under no obligation to continue to do so after retirement, and employees can't rely on a predetermined... View Details
- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
organizational rank would indicate—recognized experience in a particular style of negotiation, for example. Can such "perceived relative power" make a difference at the table? The short answer is yes. In "Perceived Relative... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
failures. To work well, marketplaces have to provide thickness, i.e., they need to attract a large enough proportion of the potential participants in the market; they have to overcome the congestion that thickness can bring, by making it... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
need more of if we are going to truly solve public problems anywhere. If there were ever a time for it, this is it. Given the loss of faith in governments around the world, we need a new approach. And, given advances in technology, there are opportunities for us to try... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
decisions about the world with large amounts of uncertainty. And the second big idea has to do with making experiments." In other words, he has defined the new venture as an experiment, fueled by increments of funding, the purpose of... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg