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- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
boards (PCBs) in-house rather than buying them from third-party contract manufacturers. Stryker Corporation's Instruments business is considering the proposal in response to difficulties with existing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others' Preferences By: Barasz, Kate, Tami Kim, and Leslie John Abstract—Consumers readily indicate liking options that appear dissimilar—for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
"The core idea — an innovation in entrepreneurial finance—is to make prominent the role of people in making decisions." Thus an early reading for the "Entrepreneurial Finance" course, on... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Focusing on relative total shareholder returns (rTSR), the predominant metric specified in these contracts and used by market participants to evaluate managers, we document that 60% of firms—those that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to be a Customer
the contract price if the seller's costs clearly exceed expectations or promise to refer the supplier to a friend. You may want to do business... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training
Many Zambian girls face major challenges early in life. They drop out of eighth and ninth grade at three times the rate of their male counterparts and contract HIV twice as often. Many will die due to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
in locally listed firms. Many local exchanges around the world are struggling to grow, and some are even contracting to a significant degree. Weak legal and regulatory institutions deserve a major part of... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
working in a spectacular way is the cell phone industry. It sees the customer as an adversary, [asking the customer to sign] contracts for View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
rewarded by GE. In contrast, a supplier of circuit boards to Ford Motor Company was never able to overcome a preoccupation with the contract terms. The supplier's failure to... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
large contract from the U.S. Army that put its combat boots on the feet of more than two million soldiers. Its success carried into the postwar... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
When cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike distributed a faulty software update in July, it impacted a staggering 8.5 million devices. The crisis rippled through commercial airline operations, package delivery logistics, ecommerce, and health... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
that the owners of the scarce resources are no longer only the shareholders but also the employees. The... View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
In the six-year history of Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge, some types of articles have always been popular with our readers. Want to generate a lot of reader buzz? Then write about negotiation strategy, managing IT,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
Thousands of large, profitable companies have all the right intentions of giving back to society—and yet a sizable number of them have corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs that provide little benefit to either View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
low-wage workers.” Another point of view rejects the notion that such a competition exists. David Wittenberg commented, “Workers don’t ‘compete for your profits,’ they contract to provide services for a wage... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
operations tell their materials suppliers exactly what specifications to meet. Similarly, companies should demand reasonable levels of security from software vendors. Look at the wording of this contract... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
be actually brought home to the investor." Most of our social contracts are built on the assumption that individual accountability influences human behavior. Indeed, View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
while studying the manufacturing floor at a leading, technologically advanced global contract manufacturer's plant in Southern China, where tens of thousands of workers assembled mobile devices under close... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
requires substantial resources, both in terms of computing power and human capital. Even companies that contract with third-party providers to run pricing algorithms on their websites need significant data storage capacity, processing... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
real and sustainable; to decide how low a company must bid in order to win a competitive contract from a rival; to identify opportunities for internal cost reduction; to estimate, in the context of an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace