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- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
should be that people come out better than they went in, and to me, the system isn’t geared toward that. It’s more about warehousing people than rehabilitating them.” The US has one of the highest recidivism rates worldwide. Each year, 9... View Details
- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
Ole Kirk Kristiansen eventually shifted the business from making houses and furniture to crafting wooden toys. He based the name of his new venture on the Danish words for "play well" (and, as it turned out, the Latin words for... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
possibilities, not a point forecast, and its accuracy is measured. “Why we care about a better prediction is to make better and more informed decisions.” The system is operating at Heathrow, with Paris airports in advanced discussions... View Details
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
for the US space agency’s Astrobee system in 2018. Entries proposed solutions to technical issues with a robotic arm for Astrobee, a free-flying robot that handles inventory, documents astronauts’ experiments, and moves cargo. Astrobee is... View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Demotivate Your Best Employees
restaurant or store; the winner's name was drawn at a meeting attended by all the employees. At the end of the sixth month, the plant manager held another drawing for a $100 gift card for all employees with perfect attendance records over... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922
John H. Patterson created an intricate system of management to monitor and train company salesman. He gave them scripts to memorize and assigned them territory to cover. He held conventions and thematic sales contests, and pressured... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
comprised the majority in most schools until quite recently, regarded this industry as a feminine domain and rather frivolous, and felt more comfortable writing about software or venture capital than lipstick and face powder. As female... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
stronger. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-051.pdf Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers (revised) Authors:David I. Levine and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
innovation in open systems is an important trend in the modern global economy. In general, distributed innovation is made possible by the modularity of the underlying product or process. But despite the documented technical benefits of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators
innovative operating system and mouse, and Apple's current OSX operating system. Networking. Innovators spend a lot of time and energy finding and testing ideas through a diverse network of individuals who vary wildly in their backgrounds... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
and then go further to consider ways the domain of innovation itself has changed. We suggest that because of fundamental shifts in communication and information processing costs and the increasing modularity of products and services, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
created sustained success. The Visionary: PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi India-born Indra Nooyi immigrated to the United States in 1978 to study at Yale University. She joined PepsiCo in 1994 and rose rapidly through its ranks. When she was named... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Growth within the EU has been sluggish, with high unemployment and low investment in R&D. The EU has launched a set of reforms to create a "single passport" system of mutual recognition within the EU for capital, services,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
these settings. In this paper we set out to accomplish both tasks by investigating the implementation of a lean production system at an Indian software services firm. Combining a detailed case study and empirical analysis we document the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How To Do Business in Islamic Countries
practical basis, names are very important for doing deals in Islamic countries, as in most of the world, the professors said. Who you know is key. Similarly, relationships and family connections are vital in business. "Relationships... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new open architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules and allows others... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
Private equity buyouts are a polarizing financial prospect. One need only look at the name of the recent bill that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced to regulate private equity in the United States—the “Stop Wall Street Looting... View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
any of his contemporaries, however, he strove to make an all-encompassing system of sales management. He created a global sales force that constantly sought new customers (and tried to sell replacement merchandise to existing ones) and... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
isolate the issue of race, half the fake profiles were given names that, according to birth records, are common among whites, while half had names common among African Americans. "The choices you make... View Details