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  • 04 May 2016
  • What Do You Think?

What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?

brand.” Deighton and Kornfeld suggested that the benefits of lightening up the marketing effort might range from increased sales to lower-cost recruiting (as prospective employees get a different picture of an View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising
  • 05 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

infrastructure; and soaring costs all threaten to detract from the good vibes of the Games, which begin Friday. As of two weeks ago, Sochi had sold only 70 percent of tickets—compared to 97 percent for the Vancouver Games four years earlier. And the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising
  • 03 Nov 2022
  • Op-Ed

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

to hear the lore of those early days.” It wasn’t unusual for the whole team to know every facet of the business—where you were with sales and fundraising, and how customers were feeling about every little change you made to the product.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

organizational structures such as codes are associated with improvements in supplier labor practices, especially in organizations in which they compete with productivity-driving incentive structures. We investigate under what internal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

Alzheimer's, MS, and Huntington's) and do so by encouraging collaboration among researchers in the HMS community. When Ivinson takes the helm in 2001, he finds a dysfunctional center with little organization or structure. In addition, he... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork

tracking outcomes with employers) and then connecting students with the best jobs. Employers were enduring long project wait times – six months to a year after the sale to install – because they couldn’t find enough skilled trades labor.... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

repertoire of personal qualities, including qualities that run counter to conventionally masculine scripts. Our findings point to the mutability of masculine identity as a social status achievement and to how organizations can disrupt... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Promise & Perils

deputy minister and as the country’s chief World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiator. After three decades of communist central planning, “China’s economy was on the brink of bankruptcy,” he told a first-day plenary session. Hardship and... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

alignment in supply/demand planning. We model the interaction between a sales and a manufacturing function within a firm, or between an upstream and downstream firm. We claim that misalignment is costly both to the involved... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

PublicationsAttracting Skeptical Buyers: Negotiating for Intellectual Property Rights Authors:James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao Periodical:International Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract An obstacle to the sale of intellectual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

A Place in the Sun

Web Site) To position itself for the 21st century, the company is relying on the likes of Yves G. Martin (MBA '86), acting CEO of Club Med North America, and Nicolas C. Giraud (MBA '91), director of sales support, both of whom were hired... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
  • 14 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

needed while some are not. How to change the organization and management teams to create new competencies without changing your essence and core values?” Skills needed now: Continuous learning and integrating new information; developing... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

All For One

The first thing Linda Hill noticed when she walked into Pixar Animation Studios was the energy. Pixar’s cavernous office in Emeryville, California, is totally open and organized around a huge central atrium, allowing a diverse group of... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services
  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real depreciations are associated with faster growth of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

traditional handicraft artisans in rural India. Established in 1960 as an exporter of home furnishings, Fabindia has grown as a consumer-facing retailer of apparel, home furnishings, organic food, and body care products, and has plans to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Lesson from the Fall

both the movement of capital markets and gains in the price of competitors’ stock can provide executives with unearned windfalls for uncompetitive performance and promote unwarranted overconfidence. Awarding stock grants without restricting the amount and timing of... View Details
Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

however, things look different. While there are instances of democracy in the business landscape, hierarchical forms of organization remain dominant, and organizational democracy commands only scant attention in organizational theory. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

launched, especially so that it is not overly dependent on sales of a particular business like LCD glass. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608108 ghSMART & Co.,... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

demonstrate their impact on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework premised on an organization's operational mission, scale, and scope. Not all View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne