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- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
benefit. In the first instance, observing that millions of people connect to friends and strangers on social platforms, some companies have chosen to enter the fray in a similar way, by trying to build relationships with people online as... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
competition has been very tough for the administration of retirement plans—a separate business from fund management. The case discusses the similarities and differences between defined contribution plans in Canada and the United States.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
similar way, write the authors. "There is little dispute that we need a system that is competitive, responsive, and consumer-driven, with clear metrics of value per dollar spent." In the following excerpt, they outline three... View Details
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
similar across brands, which makes the buyer less hesitant to purchase them "sight unseen." Purchases of basic products also create fewer "surprises" when the garment arrives. (One industry observer noted that you need... View Details
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
system of global management, to the extent it can still be called American, will look less like it used to and more like something "multinational." People are willing to adjust their behavior to facilitate teamwork, but they expect others to make a View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 10 Feb 2016
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development
Christensen discusses economic theory and personal happiness. WORKING PAPERS Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity among Professionals Kathleen L. McGinn and Katherine L. Milkman study processes of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
discretion. This is because, when faced with similar applicant pools, managers who exercise more discretion (as measured by their likelihood of overruling job test recommendations) systematically end up with worse hires. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms, assuming for identification that closely held private firms are subject to fewer short-termist pressures. Our results show that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
at the end of the year. Companies can run similar experiments to refine their compensation strategies. They might experiment with pay across different locations and track the impact of productivity of employees. They might change how they... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
Peter Drucker, and others who studied and managed large manufacturing companies influenced management thought in the 20th century. Today the West Coast is where a great deal of company market value is centered. In the meantime, similar... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
based on the chemical similarity between new drug candidates and existing drugs. We show that drug candidates that we identify as ex-ante novel are riskier investments, in the sense that they are subsequently less likely to be approved by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
some key aspects of strategy as defined by the so-called “positioning school” and discusses how these ideas can be translated into the context of regions. It identifies differences between the two areas but also finds sufficient View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
lower premiums than similar specialists outside the Harvard system. The RMF's success has been due, in large part, to the close working relationships it has cultivated with the insured physicians and hospitals. However, as the hospitals... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
perfect, employees eliminate a product that doesn’t look right, throwing it into the compost heap. That drives similar behavior in warehouse and packing house workers. It goes all the way to the person who picks the fruit and passes over... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
capitalist Shibusawa Eiichi in a global historical perspective. The chapter reviews the similarities and differences over time and between countries of proponents of corporate responsibility, including Andrew Carnegie and Robert Anderson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing
about "making moments that are so good." But by removing the Double Down from the menu, KFC made the moment when it came back in 2011 not just "so good," but even better. Nor is KFC alone in adopting this approach. McDonald's has pursued a View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
to those funds. An alternative in more recent times is what Viceira calls “private equity in public markets.” In these cases, investment funds adopt processes similar to private equity firms but without taking a public company private.... View Details
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
heterogeneous preferences for work versus leisure. Evidence from six other countries reveals similar findings in economies at different stages of development. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2363528 Economic Transition... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
the bells were too similar in tone to be sounded together. That some deemed the School's books unwelcome at the university library and that the School was considered an appropriate home for an unwanted bell suggest an initially tenuous... View Details
Keywords: Education