Cold Start Problem - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

organization defining its role and finding its niche and space in the world will find it easier to communicate and achieve that super stretch goal. They start with a blank piece of paper. They do not have to re-design.” Alex Kahel... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

After a cancer patient's first 30 days in the American medical system, the bills start stacking up—right next to the pile of paperwork explaining benefits. "It's very hard for patients to match these things up," says Dr. Thomas... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

your developers are following secure coding and testing practices. Those who aren't may be costing your company large sums of money. One multinational database supplier estimates that releasing a major patch (a fix for a problem in... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

Corporations have responded to society's plea to provide innovative solutions to deep-seated problems of human misery. Organization and management scholarship can play an important role in understanding and guiding this corporate action.... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

negotiations regularly culminated with the seller going from buyer to buyer extracting successively higher prices. The students adhered to the letter of my rules, but the auctions looked a lot like negotiations, and the negotiations looked a lot like auctions. At... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Web

Program Policies - HBS Online

Have questions about our policies on learning requirements, accommodations, changing your program status (selecting a later course, withdrawals, refunds, deferrals), exceptions standards, or discounts? Start here! Certificate of... View Details

08 May 2019
Blog Post

In the Business of Flexibility

Davis started considering more flexible work options in 2018, she and Cheney discussed where and how she might be able to work with Prokanga to address the social impact space. “It never occurred to me to work in human capital during... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit / Government

11 May 2011
News

In a Good Place

raised an estimated $7 million over the years for the five schools in its immediate area. No, Gehrke didn’t describe a burning ambition to run a flea market in her HBS admissions essay. “The path you start out on is certainly not always... View Details

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

clear objective. If you don't have a good fix on your destination—be it a product or service, a strategic or competitive outcome, or anything else—you may as well not start the journey. For a lot of your work, though, this so-called... View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

competition? On the government side, I think the big problem was that Japan never really grew up. Japan was defeated in World War II, and came out of the war a devastated country with massive poverty in the late '40s and early '50s. The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

14 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

different economic paths in relation to Russia even though they all had similar starting points. "Some countries thought the dependence on Russia was perfectly fine, and a reason to re-integrate with Russia," Abdelal explained.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2000
News

Latin America's Decade

funding, but most of that will come from outside the country. Essentially, there is no capital available to small or medium-sized companies here." Beyond financing, additional regional problems cited by Ghemawat and others include, to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

09 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

at length about the The Pay Problem posed by executive compensation in a May/June 2010 article in Harvard Magazine. There we argued that evidence of the link between executive compensation and company performance is not clear. We noted,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806118 PublicationsNegotiation Genius Authors:Deepak Malhotra and M. H. Bazerman Publication:Bantam Books, forthcoming Abstract Whether you've "seen it all" or are just View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2021
News

December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

responsibilities of Christians who are serious about following Jesus. Capitalist West Germany and Socialist East Germany: A Country Divided By James Glenn (MBA 1965) Independently published In the years following the end of World War II, a divided Germany became the... View Details

12 Sep 2019
News

Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse

think. It's part of my process. Shaan Kandawalla: Shaan Kandawalla, 2004. Probably late at night when the kids are in bed and everything from the day sort of wound down a bit, you know and you have that down time to kind of actually stop working and running and View Details

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Reality of Web Services

terms. The technical problem is that any two applications are virtually guaranteed to contain dissimilar data and execute dissimilar business processes. One might store dates as DD/MM/YYYY and put the date first in the purchase orders it... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant

18 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 18

balanced scorecard data from a convenience store chain, Store24, during the implementation of an innovative, but ultimately unsuccessful, strategy. Quarterly strategic reviews, based in part on the firm's balanced scorecard, led executives at Store24 to identify View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

decade I believe the research agenda at business schools will be driven by the desire to apply management principles to addressing complex social problems (like balancing energy security with environmental sustainability), whose solutions... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

bars. Before starting to mow, I consider what i want to solve, and then just let it go. I don't press for ideas, but let the notions drift into my consciousness when they are ready for primetime. Then I capture them! People Have an... View Details