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- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
Jonathan Wareham of ESADE Business School; the two cowrote the case with Javier Busquets, also of ESADE. As detailed in the case, these software consultants enjoy their work and are great at it. The testing process—checking and rechecking... View Details
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
outside the classroom? A: The marketing analysis toolkits were designed to provide a quantitative foundation for analyzing marketing decisions and an analytical structure and process for completing a marketing plan project. They can be used in undergraduate and MBA... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 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 View Details
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
circumstances will change. Their life path affects their productivity and their propensity to quit or to behave in a way that causes you to fire them. Understand the care demographics of your workforce. Make their caregiving lives outside... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
and written about Apple for the last decade, generating several case studies. His latest case, Apple Computer 2004, co-written with research associate Debbie Freier, was recently published by Harvard Business School Publishing. Yoffie sat down with HBS View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
today's companies face. I show that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
project designed to enhance MBA and practicing executives in case learning. The work is built on the foundation of HBS field cases employing the monomyth "hero's journey" classic story structure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
jointly decide to donate their bodies to science after they die. In Individuals' Decision to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in Hawaii, published online by the Public Library of Science, the authors report that married people... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
(EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
disaster that killed over 1,000 factory workers in Bangladesh in 2013 highlighted to Western consumers the challenging conditions faced by the workers who made their clothes. Consumer pressure on Western retailers worked its way back up... View Details
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
value to those with the resources to defend its ownership, a kind of survival of the fittest philosophy? Yet another school of thought asks whether these issues are overblown. D. R. Elliott commented that "much of the internet economy has the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
times—get started on the right foot. “It really is possible to bottle up life experience and tacit knowledge and deconstruct it to accelerate the learning curve,” he says. Ng says that unlocking the best career opportunities requires job... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
that women researchers, researchers originating from less economically advanced countries, or those working with fewer co-authors on a research project are more likely to utilize their social network than their peers. We find weaker... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives, and the firms they controlled as driving actors in national economies and international growth. Alongside an original introduction, we have selected View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
working for an organization that is contributing value to the world, that society benefits from the mission and strategy of their organization and its products and services. They need to understand how the success of the organization... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
organizational networks, and new avenues of sustainable business growth. Providing comprehensive coverage of the field of management, the encyclopedia spans fourteen subject volumes providing a landmark work of reference for scholars,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
accomplish something big together. Silverthorne: Why does group culture seem to matter so much when we thought economic interests dominate everything? Kanter: Modern bureaucratic life was built on the myth that people could come to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
and tools; (2) working prototypes over excessive documentation; (3) respond to change rather than follow a plan; and (4) customer collaboration over rigid contracts. "To paraphrase Sun Tzu, true victory is breaking the resistance of... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
we show that individuals who spend money on time-saving services report greater life satisfaction. A field experiment provides causal evidence that working adults report greater happiness after spending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne