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26 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

startups that found further success in the market—are rare, and mainly involve companies purchased for their intellectual property. Lessons for universities The study’s findings are significant as university research expenditures climb to... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

skilled nursing facilities for their recovery, where they could learn how to walk, climb stairs, and get into a car with their new knee or hip. In other hospitals, however, those skills were discussed in a 30- to 60-minute conversation in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

16 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

however, internees could go hiking and climbing in the nearby mountains for nine hours at a stretch. Germans who were interned during WWI lobbied on behalf of their countrymen during WWII. Several, for example, penned a letter to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

03 Apr 2013
What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

two-year MBA program. More important, those climbing the ladder in this manner must not be penalized for doing it this way. The point is that organizations will, as a result, be just as productive and also able to choose leadership from a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 May 2019
What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

says, ‘I left my heart in San Francisco,’ but it wasn’t the ‘little cable cars climbing half-way to the stars’—it was the willingness to follow a long path of discovery and try and fail repeatedly until one succeeded. And the best... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

is a perfect example of "how a British prime minister reaches the top of the greasy pole" by climbing the political system and serving as postmaster general, minister for health, and chancellor for the exchequer before becoming PM. He was... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

were really losing their share for software patents compared to non-software inventions,” Kerr says. The ripple effects of invention Tech clusters, it turns out, are also important for non-software related patents, with those areas of invention View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

use gatekeepers to impose stringent controls on care—were resisted by patients and physicians. In response, the managed care organizations began relaxing their controls, allowing patients more freedom to see specialists and out-of-network doctors. Costs began to View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

08 Sep 2015
First Look

September 8, 2015

impact their decisions to climb the corporate ladder (or not). In Studies 1 and 2, when asked to list their core goals in life, women listed more life goals overall than men, and a smaller proportion of their goals related to achieving... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

tobacco competitors, will probably start climbing in price and eventually become equal to tobacco brands. That could create an even bigger windfall for tobacco producers. Even if electronic cigs are regulated like regular cigarettes, they... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

Starbucks claims the world's largest Wi-Fi network, with some 2,200 stores offering wireless connectivity to latte sippers for a charge. That number will climb to 3,000 by year's end, according to the company. Darren Hostin, of Starbucks... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

were in a new world where high tech ruled. We got to hear outlandish claims that stocks were riskless. The Dow did climb past 11,000 in the next few months but then went nowhere before crashing in September of 2001 and then again in 2002,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

revised version to ensure it could not justify discrimination against gay and lesbian customers. But the results of a CEO climbing into the bully pulpit don’t always work out as intended. As Chatterji notes, “Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

effective, and efficient way? Q: For decades, Baby Boomers have driven the economy. Now, as you point out, Millennials are climbing into the driver's seat. From the retailers' perspective, how does this change the market? Alvarez: As... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

21 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

example, often mask narrow but important pain points—areas of major dissatisfaction—such as unhappiness with poor customer service or long wait times. They can also mask backsliding against competitors; while gently climbing satisfaction... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

organizations to climb the value chain and access higher-margin businesses with powerful incumbents. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609024 PublicationsGender in Job... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

complain about labor shortages. Immigrants held low-paying occupations then and now. These occupations include construction, household services, and agriculture. This allowed native-born individuals to climb the “quality ladder of jobs.”... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

more than just school buildings, teachers, and textbooks. In much of the developing world, the poor lack faith that changing their lives is possible; few believe in the existence of a social or economic ladder that, with the proper education, they could use to View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

for “ruffling some feathers” in the process. Recruited to a Fortune 500 grocery and pharmacy retailer after climbing to Associate Principal in McKinsey & Company’s retail practice, she successfully grew their high-margin yet highly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119004-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-043 Learning How to Honnold Alex Honnold is the world’s most accomplished free climber. To many, climbing sheer vertical faces of rock—like the famed El... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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