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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53563 The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond By: Lerner, Josh, and Amit Seru Abstract—Patents and citations are powerful tools for understanding innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump
dreams of consumers, because a brand that’s built on such appeals will find it hard to grow to be a source of pride. Apparently misogyny, xenophobia, and contempt for the disabled have worked as customer acquisition tools for soon-to-be... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Deighton
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
use is predictable. We conclude that the convergence project between the FASB and IASB should be dismantled and that competition between the two bodies would be the most practical means of achieving an economic GAAP. PublicationsEnterprise 2.0: New Collaborative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
Monitoring and intrusion-detection tools routinely log computer activity on company networks and highlight patterns of suspicious activity, changes in software, or patterns of communication and access. Some companies turn off... View Details
- 13 Jun 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
That Costs HOW Much?
Pricing the Right Price for You? Not every industry or company can benefit from performance-based pricing. But where there is a fit, PBP can be a powerful tool that merges the interests of buyers and sellers. How Our Brain Determines if... View Details
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
customers? A: The final chapter of my book explores how this can be done. Essentially, I show how some companies have abandoned their efforts to understand exactly what products their customers want and have instead equipped them with View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
version of an earlier case. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406076 PublicationsThe Tools of Cooperation and Change Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Matthew Marx, and Howard H. Stevenson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
that? A: We offer a number of useful tools in the book. Take a mechanism we call the "risk exposure calculator," for instance. Keyed to elements of growth, culture, and information management, it alerts managers, even as they're toasting... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
while also bolstering private-sector demand for LEED buildings." Leading With Leed There are multiple environmental assessment tools available to governments and building developers in the United States, including the International Code... View Details
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
combined with more sophisticated methods of analyzing it, provide managers with powerful tools to help them isolate the effects of various marketing instruments. The framework developed by Gupta and Steenburgh helps managers think through... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
question that people have talked about a lot, but nobody really examined it empirically. Richard Bohmer is looking at the whole set of issues around what kind of management tools are appropriate in health care, given the realities of... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
and provided tools to help participants reflect on their own goals. Later, career expert Pam Lassiter offered practical advice on career planning. The women then broke into small groups to begin using the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go
case closes with Cirne wondering if he should push back or give up yet another remnant of his position at Wily. Wasserman (who has taught the case in The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit alumni program and in the first-year course The... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
"Of course all change brings difference, but how many differences can we handle at once?" Kanter asks. "In Windows 8 there's the tile interface, there's no more start button, there's this 'Charm Bar' These tools may work... View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
the end is better products and services. According to Bob DeNoble, "... information is a tool to help get the real work done. It enables us to produce food, clothing, and shelter, run our transportation and banking systems, and keep... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
On June 26, an article appeared on the web site of The Guardian titled, “When should a tech company refuse to build tools for the government?” In a statement, Satya Nadella said the company’s contract with ICE “is supporting legacy mail,... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
but once we have a framework, we will not suffer that exhaustion again. Depending on the work you need to do, you need to think about what digital tools to use. Do you need to be on video or could you talk on the phone even if it’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
policy tool that has attracted increased interest. Yet questions about the efficacy and the efficiency with which funds are used are subject to frequent debate. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
prompting mangers to ask: How can I choose which of these tools is right for my organization? EE: What topics are explored in BCAO's Managers as Teachers module, and why is the module "optional"? Upton: In BCAO, participants... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
Glaeser, Kominers, and Harvard doctoral candidate Andrew Hillis further honed the algorithm to develop a tool for the City of Boston. After officials were asked to identify health violations of the most concern, the researchers and Boston... View Details