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- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
private equity investors will be leery of funding this sector when the primary customer for its products is a government. They all know that the United Kingdom, with its government-controlled National Health Service, buys expensive cancer... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
to offline media, which made attribution modeling more difficult. Decisions pertaining to product extensions, channel expansion beyond DTC e-commerce, and geographic expansion were also on the table to prove that Hubble's customer value... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Christopher T. Stanton Abstract—Small business owners and others in self-employment have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about earnings in entrepreneurship, this option increases the expected... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
Publisher's Abstract Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his international bestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why change is so hard and provided an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education W. Earl Sasser, Jr., who oversaw the formal development and implementation of EDP, calls it "the most ambitious customized executive education program the School has ever undertaken." The... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
is associated with higher employee departure rates in stores where the manager is likely to be more informed than headquarters (stores that serve repeat customers or customers with atypical demographic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
continuous efficacy and efficiency improvements that poverty-reduction initiatives must have to succeed," says Antares cofounder and HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu. Chu speaks from personal experience. After leaving a lucrative Wall... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
value for patients, where value is the health outcomes achieved relative to the money spent. While his initial work focused on reorganizing care and measuring outcomes, he began to understand that appropriate cost information was missing.... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
individuals, and a purely peer-based performance review and stack ranking. As customer demand and market forces draw Valve into hardware in 2013, Valve questions whether their organizational model will need to change as it expands from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
motivation for working all these hours is not actually to produce high-quality work. In fact, there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that it’s going to undermine the quality of the work.” Confronting deeply held beliefs has been part of Ely’s work as head of the HBS... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007
fee for those soybeans grown with illegal seed. Although there were initial concerns by farmers and grain companies—who collected the fee on Monsanto's behalf—the system worked smoothly, with over 97 percent of the farmers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
The mission: To sell more laptops. The market: Rural China. The challenge: The business partner wants to know what laptop features would be appealing to customers in rural China. Landing in Shanghai with eight days to find out, a team of... View Details
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
likely to divulge intimate facts and when we're apt to keep our lives to ourselves. In short, the initial findings indicate that individuals are both illogical and careless with their privacy on the web. "We show that people are prone to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
at the bottom of the pyramid so it makes good business sense — not a sense of do-gooding — to go after it.” Today, market forces, private-sector know-how, and grassroots initiatives such as microfinance are all being looked to as tools to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
leaving their survival uncertain. Minorities are falling prey to an Islamist ideology that conveys values and customs diametrically opposed to European ones. Terrorist acts have become the “new normal,” part of daily life. The North-South... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
became robust again during the '80s — reported losses approaching half a billion dollars between 1990 and 1994. But that tide is changing, says BC's amiable chairman George Harad, who became CEO in 1994 and chairman in 1995. Harad has launched a series of View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
employees to take better control of both their workdays and their lives. Excerpt From sleeping With Your Smartphone It all began with an experiment that my research associate and collaborator, Jessica Porter, and I initiated in order to... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
financial depth on the diffusion of capital-intensive technologies in the late stages of diffusion or in late adopters. Our results are consistent with a view that local financial markets play a critical role in facilitating the process of experimentation that is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
customers and non-customers; and 2) We collected data from two laboratory studies. We break our theoretical problem into two subproblems. First, we ask, "What kind of WOM drives sales?" Motivated by previous research, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace