Department Of Defense - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

parties," he says. However its impact may be felt, technology can no longer be shunted along to segregated departments or individuals. It has become fundamental to even the most traditional aspects of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

04 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 4

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312034-PDF-ENG Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (B) Lena G. Goldberg and Chad M. CarrHarvard Business School Supplement 312-035 The case describes Albert "Jack" Stanley's response to actions initiated against him by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

being described is the savings bond program." Unfortunately, recent changes to the program have made it a less attractive, less accessible product for LMI families. In January 2003, for example, the Department View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

might be working with peers in pharmaceuticals or defense to accelerate the development of virtual reality capabilities. In my work, I use the ethnographic methods of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

like budgeting, should be part of the annual governance cycle. Whenever plans are changed at the enterprise or business unit level, executives likely need to realign the organization with the new direction. The alignment process, View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

Bezos was still working on Wall Street. After decades of tax-free sales, ecommerce was just 11.4 percent of US retail sales in 2019, according to the Department View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

In the late 1970s, the Chicago Police Department noticed that the city's crime rate increased when cops stopped walking the beat and started driving around in patrol cars instead. They wondered why, and asked the political scientist... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

available, you're much more likely to be able to compare different attributes of the shoes." Next Steps The researchers are currently testing their theory at a large company. Instead of submitting... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

06 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best

than 14 million people employed in personal selling in the United States alone represent about 10 percent of the entire country's labor force, according to the US Department of... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

03 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains

manager’s back to get the CTO’s opinions on their work or they try to undermine a decision made by the new head of a department by complaining to the CEO. Even finding time to just chat with the founder is a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

public documents. More generally, a wholesale revisiting of the rationale for departing from conformity in the reporting of book and tax income seems long overdue. Given that... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

04 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?

these responses, is the value of intellectual property in all but a few instances or industries vastly overrated? Is the appropriate response to this dilemma to rethink processes to achieve speed as both a View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

homes. For example, more generous tax credits could substantially reduce the cost of adopting available children, and would make adoption more feasible for lower-income families. Our State Department could... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

important buying episodes. JCR has had a significant effect on the teaching and research directions of marketing departments and on the marketing strategies of major consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

predict the health care needs of patients, continually enhance patient outcomes, and drive transformative solutions to import community access to health care. For example, using patient data including emergency View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

hospitals and didn't in others. And it actually had a lot to do with the kind of power their cardiac surgery departments had. It didn't take off in places with politically strong and well respected cardiac... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

buildings, a joint program of the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency; the National Association of Home Builders'... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

08 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

there are two enormous statues of Hamilton and Gallatin that stand on either side of the US Department of the Treasury. It's hard to imagine... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

With the advent of customer relationship management (CRM) in the late 1990s, companies came to believe that by using technology to tailor their offerings to individual consumers' needs, customer loyalty—and company profits—would... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

being a beacon for business." 5. Closer Ties To The University Nohria noted that in its formative years, HBS was well served by developing across the Charles River from the Harvard campus. "We didn't want to be a department... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

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