Place Making - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 20

exclusion restriction separating current and future payoff and (2) a finite horizon model in which there is no forward looking behavior in the last period. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44102 August 2013 MIT Press Beyond Platinum:... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

managers substantial benefits that would be difficult to realize without the ERP IT infrastructure. Q: Must a company have an ERP system in place to use time-driven activity-based costing? A: Clearly, having an automated data feed... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

working to expand a fledgling business operating in a new, as yet largely undefined, market. Heinz and Noble believed that they had no time to lose. To make the most of the opportunity they saw before them, they would have to use their... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

networks is to middle managers, who may become obsolete when layers of managers are no longer needed to convey messages up and down the organization.” A year ago many people poked fun at Facebook as a place where kids shared their latest... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

health insurance. Every year, they have to review alternative health insurance plans, make risk-return tradeoffs, and choose the ones they prefer for themselves and their families. In Japan and Western Europe, most citizens receive their... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

21 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The VC Quandary: Too Much Money

necessarily the best strategy. "What you've got (to do is) be sure that you're into the first five or six: the guys that have a real chance of making it. And that means they're early to market, that they're ahead in their product... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Financial Services

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge 4. Develop cross-functional teams able to make decisions in the field... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

company in Boston, I was recruited by another speech recognition firm in Silicon Valley. At first I thought I wouldn't be able to take the job given the noncompete agreement I had signed in Boston, but I was nonetheless able to make the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

cases that makes them so enduring?" Saki, Sizzle, Sayonara Case: Benihana of Tokyo Written: 1972 Copies Sold: 269,584 Touring the United States in 1959 with his Japanese university wrestling team, twenty-year-old Hiroaki... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

18 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

within the task network and serve to separate one set of tasks from another. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of this work... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

need more of if we are going to truly solve public problems anywhere. If there were ever a time for it, this is it. Given the loss of faith in governments around the world, we need a new approach. And, given advances in technology, there are opportunities for us to try... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Jun 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome

contemporary readings to surface insights into the age-old issue of leadership. Q: Why is ancient Rome a good lens for exploring modern leadership themes? Dench: It’s a remote, dead society, yet larger than life, which makes it a very... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

25 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.

might be the first step to curtailing undue influence of some companies over other stakeholders, Kerr says. "Institutionally, you need to make sure you have safeguards in place so that this doesn't... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

banks. For privacy's sake, they were referred to as Anglo Bank, which tackled almost 40 deals in the $1 billion range between 2004 and 2006, making it a force in corporate finance, and Saxon Bank, which was a risk-averse, moderate-growth... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution

advances in information technology, a revolution has been taking place in retailing during the past two decades, and nowhere more so than in the apparel and textile sectors. The first to chronicle these changes and their implications in... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

historical background, Retsinas said that prior to the Depression, people who wanted to buy a home were typically required to make a 50 percent down payment. They were issued a 5-year interest-only note, and effectively crossed their... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

08 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

(i.e., pity and envy, respectively) and actions toward members of those groups. However, through nonverbal behaviors that subtly communicate warmth and competence information, people can manage the impressions they make on colleagues,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

cash needs and how they access capital. We have a long way to go in Washington to be fully engaged and intelligent about these issues. Fortunately, small business is one place where there is a lot of bipartisan agreement. I believe we can... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

explanations for the phenomenon and its success or failure. These included such things as the nature of the industry or product, the way such goals are implemented, and the size of the organization making use of them. There were,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

current estimates placing financial losses at greater than $3.7 trillion dollars annually. Unfortunately, fraud prevention has been stymied by lack of a clear and comprehensive understanding of its underlying causes and mechanisms. In... View Details