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- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
Chances are you've got a story like Andrea Zintz's. Now president of Andrea Zintz & Associates, a consulting firm in Pennington, N.J., she was working for a health-care concern in 1997 when the firm's executive committee decided to... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
Operations Management Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris J., Bin Hong Alex Lee, and David Simchi-Levi Abstract—We present our work with an online retailer, Rue La La, as an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
better out of the office, say while out in the boat or at a conference, so that looks very much like not working!!" Among other things, Krishna Sripad suggested fostering "an environment where transformation is 'truly'... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
of the 75 percent of his classmates who did not go on to college after high school. Ameen has spent much of his time in college working to change the social status quo. While an undergraduate at Columbia University, he View Details
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
conversations with individual employees during this critical time. Conversations are the best way to get leaders and employees back into the practice of relating to one another in person. How are people doing? What challenges are they facing at View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
Working PapersCollaborative Architectures for Innovation Authors:Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti Abstract Collaborative innovation has become a hot topic in innovation today. Scholars, consultants, and the business press all urge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
Great Training Robbery, a working paper based on case studies conducted by Beer, Magnus Finnstrom, and Derek Schrader, as well as decades of research on training effectiveness, will be the focus of a Harvard Business Review article this... View Details
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
most of his work as a professor, he spent hours each week reviewing papers for academic journals out of a sense of obligation to the profession. “Then I stopped and thought, ‘What happens if I don’t do some of these reviews?’” he says.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
productivity would improve—especially as the bricks-and-clicks retail model worked in an increasingly coordinated manner to offer the consumer a seamless shopping experience. The Internet Threat While recent retail sales figures seem to... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
a sovereign default may affect the economy. 2017 Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy By: Jones, G. Abstract—This study examines the geography... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
question fail to account for the fact that employees usually care whether the pursuit of purpose is authentic and that the embrace of purpose often affects even employees whose own work is remote from the activities that put the purpose... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f0a1b93d#/f0a1b93d/12 Working PapersLocation Choices under Strategic Interactions Author:Juan Alcacer Abstract The literature on location... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
effective December 31, 1999. The true story of the Canal upends the more conventional tale of U.S. triumphalism and its shepherding of one of the largest infrastructure works ever built. First, the Canal produced great economic dividends... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
environment its original owners never envisioned. As other independent booksellers before her had discovered, Brody realized that the store could never compete with its bigger rivals on price or—with just 1,000 square feet of space—on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Harvard Business School
wealth in urban communities. Frank S. Jones MBA 1957 In 1971, Frank Jones was named Ford Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning and became the first African American tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He started his career as an... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
But this only works well in a school environment with standardized metrics, and completely falls apart in a complex workplace with varied evaluations – perhaps this is why despite the high success rates of... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
each move, a pitching team at a high-cost existing plant works with a catching team at a low-cost new location, and the move is not considered complete until the performance of the catching team meets or exceeds that of the pitching team.... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
activities increase the monitoring costs and the credit risk faced by banks and, in turn, raise the cost of debt for the borrower. Working Papers A New Model of Integrity: The Missing Factor of Production (PDF file of Keynote and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
individuals in the business, their individual motivation, and their ability to work together harmoniously. Nowhere is the need to work together more important than in the twin customer-facing functions of... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
book and Grove in this interview. Next week, HBS Working Knowledge will offer a video podcast with Tedlow, as well as a book excerpt. Sean Silverthorne: Why is your book subtitled "The Life and Times of an American"? Richard S.... View Details