Filter Results:
(180)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(244)
- News (34)
- Research (180)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (89)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(244)
- News (34)
- Research (180)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (89)
Sort by
- Research Summary
Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and Management
The current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
and the socially clueless. Still, people in an organization can be roughly classified using a simple matrix. Our research showed (not surprisingly) that, no matter what kind of organization we studied, everybody wanted to work with the... View Details
Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
associate Arthur McCaffrey. It's also one they are passionate about and determined to solve. As they write in a new working paper that they're preparing for an academic journal, there are more than three billion people in the world who may be View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
be classified into five segments: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Each of the five segments has its own behavioral and demographic characteristics, with varying levels of uncertainty about the... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
enterprise has shown that there are fundamental tensions between pursuing scale economies and playing the spreads. (See the table "Conflicting Challenges.") The data indicate that there is some merit to classifying companies... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
property owners who wanted to rent out their properties. Where could they find this kind of information? A large number of owners had already posted their properties on a popular online classified website, Craigslist. Airbnb founders... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
median between High and Low. Sustainable Or Unsustainable? Based on this analysis we were able to classify countries, for each of environmental and social performance metrics, into the following categories: In Sustainable countries—such... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
Manufacturers generally classify products in terms of broad product lines, developing a single marketing strategy and production plan for each line. That makes sense for marketing, but it's a mistake for production. Different SKUs... View Details
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
novel dataset by hand-mapping data on sustainability investments classified as material for each industry into firm-specific performance data on a variety of sustainability investments. This allows us to present new evidence on the value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
Cohen and his coauthors identified the name of the firm and call participants, in addition to matching analysts with the recommendations they gave before the call. Finally, they coded the entire text of each question and answer, View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
women. Companies should classify their CSR programs according to the ability to enhance and even transform the firm's business practices. How Do I Drive Csr Through My Organization? Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits Nonprofit boards and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
Silverthorne: What are market categories, and why are they important? Mukti Khaire: Categories are cognitive constructs meant to organize large amounts of information into manageable units. Goods classified as belonging to the same... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
STRUGGLE Ivashina and Lerner studied 2,577 senior partners and 1,394 junior partners, as well as 1,032 investment professionals who were classified as founders. They looked at a variety of detailed data on the partners and the funds,... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
art. By 2005, the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) spanned more than 34 million pages of Indian literature, including herbal formulations from the Unani, Yoga, Ayurveda, and Siddha medical systems. Texts that spanned centuries were first View Details
- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
Female-focused products experience less growth To test that effect, the researchers examined some 6,000 products released on Product Hunt in a two-year period between 2016 and 2018. Using machine learning, they analyzed product descriptions to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
flexibility were limited. The new e-business models emerging on the Internet can be classified within one or more of the generic market roles. In addition, the models can be grouped into two categories. First, and most relevant for our... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
individual factors that might influence co-donation by married couples. Focus On Hawaii The team set out to analyze and classify 1,746 archived records of registered donors to the University of Hawaii's Willed Body Program from 1967 to... View Details
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
women." Marlis Krichewsky presented an interesting hypothesis when she classified male and female managers in three groups: those who conform to the gender role model, those who imitate the role model of the other gender, and those... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
decades, but we know almost nothing about how companies manage design innovation," Verganti says. For their study, Verganti and Dell'Era focused on the Italian furniture industry, using a database (Webmobili.com) to classify 2,000... View Details