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- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
mid-sized companies.” “Investing in those technologies would make portfolio companies better able to utilize the data they collect from customers and stakeholders, so they could make better business decisions.” In all of these cases, such technology upgrades could... View Details
- 21 Mar 2012
- Op-Ed
Finding the Right Jeremy Lin Storyline
New York Knicks basketball sensation Jeremy Lin has attracted worldwide attention because he crosses so many boundaries and defies so many stereotypes. Lin, an Asian-American (rare in the NBA) who played college hoops at Harvard (even rarer in the NBA), was cut from... View Details
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
successfully. Megibow's team investigated the reason for the failures, again using Web metrics data and server log files throughout the process. Apparently, the "Company" field under the customer's name was causing a problem.... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
that year, Warner Bros. signed on as a lead investor in Uninterrupted. Were Carter and James right to partner with Warner Bros. in this manner? And with renewal negotiations just around the corner, how could they make the most of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
concluding section. Global companies will need to organize cross-functional value capture teams focused on appropriating value from their know-how and reputation by combining different institutional, market, and nonmarket tools, depending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
http://hbr.org/product/experience-the-finger-lakes-the-groupon-partnership-decision/an/814010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-086 Learning From Extreme Consumers Traditional market research methods focus on understanding the average experiences of average... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
Here's a cautionary tale of innovation woe: Nokia has consistently outspent Apple on phone-related research and development over the past decade, especially in the years leading up to the launch of Apple's iPhone. Between 2004 and 2007,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
emphasis needs to be on process, on the journey, not on end points." Marc Michaelson reminded us that "when individuals manage their lives well, they make better teams and stronger organizations." Respondents also provided... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
different from these cyclical patterns. In the book, we discuss how a confluence of factors—the changing sources of capital, the rise of intermediaries, and the growing concentration of investors dollars—is likely to lead to some... View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
Alaskan Native communities at the time. A key question that interested Alsan and the researchers at Stanford was whether the representativeness of the study mattered for actual prescribing and use of new medicines. The group consulted Schwartzstein, a View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
could lead to substantial growth.” But new research suggests that small businesses are far more fiscally conservative than banks realize. In fact, firms with up to 10 employees hold back spending on their revolving credit lines to create... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
2013, the Microsoft board recognized that the company needed a leadership change as its stock had been flat since CEO Steve Ballmer had taken over in 2000 from founder Bill Gates. By doubling down on its proprietary Office and Windows software applications, Microsoft... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
execute this study? How did you choose Maverick as a research site? Was the company open to this kind of study? Sandra Cha and Amy Edmondson: Hypocrisy was not at all on our minds when we started the research. Our initial interest in this company was View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
articles had been sent to the execs about the good and the bad aspects of the existing systems. A small team of people had focused carefully on the economic analysis, looking closely at our current software programs, in particular. At the... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
leading design firms, and its human-centered innovation culture and processes. It is an example of what managers can do to make their own organizations more innovative. In reaction to a rapidly changing competitive landscape, a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
leading their teams in a way that ensures there's equity of contribution and evaluation. There's a great deal of performance anxiety in global organizations, where people are worried about how they are being... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
winning streaks, the number of leaders multiplies along with the momentum of the streak. Winning teams and successful organizations become increasingly less dependent on the person called the commander-in-chief—even though, ironically,... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
School Case 808-027 Saffronart, a five-year-old online art auction company, leads the market for modern Indian art and now faces competitors in the market it created. Established in 2000 by the wife-and-husband View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
insight into perceptions of the company's conduct among a large cross section of employees around the world, and to benchmark themselves against other leading companies. When the global financial crisis hit, the project View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?
Zlatev. “One potential reason is that they might be saying something about who you are as a person that might lead others to evaluate you negatively, and that’s driving people’s hesitancy.” Zlatev coauthored the research with Ariella... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding