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- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
between Microsoft and Intel. Tech companies contend with high, upfront fixed costs and low marginal costs. They deal with the effect of standards in locking in customers and raising switching costs. With the unique aspects of the... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
as an ethical argument, actually. It's really just a different calculation of personal costs and benefits. Regarding people as individual value-maximizers is a valid point of view, but it certainly isn't the only one. Other people see the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-051.pdf Alignment in Cross-Functional and Cross-Firm Supply Chain Planning Authors:Santiago Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the behavioral View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
organization, join the club. Despite the mantra that goals are good, the process of setting beneficial goals is harder than it looks. New research by HBS professor Max H. Bazerman and colleagues explores the hidden View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
market is in its infancy, there is already disagreement over the appropriate level of regulation” The growth is also driven by ways in which alternative lenders are innovating in small business lending, particularly in terms of simplicity and convenience of the... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
collaboration. At the same time that leadership is being redefined, leadership development is also being reconsidered. In recent decades companies have focused on succession processes that ensure the emergence of a select group of leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
funds they and their lenders put into such projects, more than the cost of public borrowing. In many projects corruption, government incompetence, or disorganization led to deals that were terrible from the point of view of the host... View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
responsibility, HBS has long tried to promote better business standards. Anteby's rich account reveals the surprising role of silence in HBS's process of codifying morals and values. As he describes, specifics are often left unspoken; for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
process helps improve the dealer's profit by at least $269. These estimates suggest a potentially high return to taking the "information-based" approach to pricing idiosyncratic products. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
Beyond what we can do as individuals to reduce our risks of exposure, are there objective measures employers can use to validate what is effective? The answer, fortunately, is yes. Many claims will be made over the next few weeks and months that stores, restaurants,... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
the future. Process planning and scenario planning make more sense than fixed projections because they focus on answerable questions. What is required to remain solvent per month? What startup costs will be... View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
model of invention as a process of recombinant variation and selection. Our contributions are to highlight the skewed outcome distributions resulting from evolutionary search and to develop theory that can be tested by modeling the higher... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707559 Vitreon Corp.: The Hyalite Project Harvard Business School Case 607-031 Considers decisions facing the leader of a manufacturing staff project team assigned to a plant where yields have deteriorated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
Learned from Market Design? Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This essay discusses some things we have learned about markets, in the process of designing marketplaces to fix market failures. To work well, marketplaces have to provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
claims, and an infusion of new equity financing. The Chapter 11 process has generated both costs and benefits for the company. Its future profitability, and the value of the reorganized business, are both... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
draws on theories of entrepreneurship and history to explore the ways in which historical processes play an integral role in entrepreneurship. It builds off the plea by Joseph Schumpeter for an active exchange between historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
mayonnaise, a container of mustard, cold cuts, processed cheese spread (I'm from Philly, and we love Whiz), and pickles. Now imagine finding sawdust in the pickles, sand in the mustard, and so on. That quite literally was the situation in... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
creative muse while sleeping. Task reactivation during sleep can actively trigger creativity-related processes during sleep and thereby boost the beneficial effect of sleep on creativity. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel