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19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

Can the art and science of management help public schools improve student performance? In the fall of 2001, faculty and staff from the Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) began to discuss how they might work together View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

13 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants

of evidence on the impact of advertisements, it seems like businesses don’t always make the right call about whether and where to advertise. Mistakes seem to go in both directions, with some businesses... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

http://hbr.org/2012/04/retail-doesnt-cross-borders-heres-why-and-what-to-do-about-it/ar/1 Teamwork on the Fly Authors:Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012). Abstract In a fast-paced and ever-changing... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

lower costs, the answer is more people per square foot, and open offices will always have the upper hand on that dimension. Nonetheless, many managers and executives seem to believe that open offices will... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

15 May 2013
Research & Ideas

From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing

Editor's note: Think money can't buy happiness? Behavioral economists Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton beg to differ. It actually can, they say—but only if we spend it the right way. In their book released this week, Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, Dunn... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

attempts to copy successful services haven’t always worked out. For example, despite Vodafone’s widespread success in Kenya, its effort to take the M-Pesa model to South Africa fell flat. Mobile money operators do not seem to have a good... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

originally adopted a functional organization structure. This enabled them to exit many marginal, local businesses and focus on the opportunities that were most promising from a global perspective. It also allowed them to introduce more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

embedded in the local network while also having access to global markets. It bridges the two worlds, helping the cluster maintain its competitive advantage. In one Brenta firm, skilled workers translate international designers' sketches... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

25 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

competency? A: Yes, cooperation is critical: The quintessential key to success of software platforms has always been their ability to build large, well-functioning ecosystems of third-party producers who build View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

the case materials, lectures, guest speakers, and application workshops: First, you must understand the externals in your business and their impact on required sales tasks. Value is created or destroyed in the external marketplace, not in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

and I had collaborated "telepathically" for years. I'd always liked John's perspective on leadership, and I think he more or less appreciated what I was doing, so our working together to develop... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

without having their economies fall apart. On average, such countries don't do nearly as well as liberal democracies; but there's still a mystery in that they're not doing as badly as the economists and political scientists would have... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

31 Jan 2017
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The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

School US Competitiveness Project has pointed out, has an adverse effect on wages and competitiveness. Of course, there is always a catalyst for a sudden downturn on markets.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

efficiency, independence of irrelevant objects, and resource-monotonicity on two preference domains (Ehlers and Klaus, 2003, Theorem 1). They explicitly prove Theorem 1 for preference domain R0 which requires that the null object is View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

Working Papers Using By-Product Synergy for Competitive Advantage Author: Deishin Lee Abstract We study how a manufacturer can leverage by-product synergy for competitive advantage. By focusing on the economic impact to the firm and the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

delivery services should not be discounted too soon, according to HBS professor and marketing specialist John A. Deighton. As Deighton explained in the article "Who Wanted Webvan to Survive?" published last summer in The Boston Globe, the biggest fans of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

within the organization warn of the impending change (and somebody nearly always does), their warnings are usually ignored. One tactic for forcing the organization to pay attention is to label the innovation... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

Teradyne and HP forced their organizations to focus on these new technologies. The CEOs of both companies got involved, creating separate, financially autonomous divisions for the projects to ensure that the technological breakthroughs... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

to their ethical conduct. Scholarly attention to ethics and values does indeed have an impact on business leaders' self-conception and resulting behavior. Q: Corporate social responsibility sounds like something we should all want. Yet... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

smaller) communities and collaborations of inventors. Fleming and his colleagues found, for example, that at the end of the last decade, half of the patented inventors in Silicon Valley could trace an indirect collaborative path to one... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

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