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  • 03 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

advertisements by shifting from 30-second to 15-second advertisements, substituting radio for television advertising, or increasing the use of direct marketing, which gives more immediate sales impact. 4. Adjust product portfolios.... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?

inhabited by academics and consultants ...personal advancement may be better served by being provocative than by being right." Others question the importance of the linkage between information technology and the shape of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist

Several best practices, as explained by past and current masters of judo strategy, can help you reach the top of your game. While there are no substitutes for mastering the concepts of judo strategy and carefully studying your industry... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
  • 14 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

“Having empathy in day-to-day interaction with employees, customers, vendors, investors, etc. is always an important leadership skill, but this empathy is dramatically heightened during a crisis that is impacting everyone personally and... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

system of expense allocation, and anti-inversion legislation—reflect the intuition that building "strong fences" around the United States advances American interests. This paper examines the interaction of a strong fences policy with the increasingly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

programs as a win-win-win scenario: compliance improves, regulators conserve enforcement resources, and firms save money. But this outcome can only be achieved if the self-regulatory activities of corporations can effectively substitute... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

imbalances is an important shortcoming of the recent literature. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-009.pdf No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks Authors:Nava Ashraf, Oriana... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

important part of how businesses operate, and that can only increase going forward.” “Increasingly, the tech architectures inside firms are a source of competitive advantage.” In a new industry and background note written with HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • 03 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

of the benefits associated with a diverse workforce. While it is critical for managers and researchers to understand the processes and outcomes associated with diversity, much work remains to be done in this important area of scholarship.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

efficiently accomplish this important strategic objective. Our core contribution is the concept of parallel play—a theoretical construct characterizing the search process by which entrepreneurial firms efficiently reach a viable business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19

  PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

Mexico's overall prosperity, this is pretty small potatoes." And foreign investment is no substitute for domestic investment in institutions such as education, the judicial system, and health and social welfare programs. A system of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

influence when the vast majority can't? The authors tracked 68 change initiatives in the UK's National Health Service, an organization whose size, complexity, and tradition can make reform difficult. They discovered several predictors of change agents' success-all of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 25 Aug 2015
  • First Look

First Look Tuesday

Abstract—U.S. money market mutual funds (MMFs) are an important source of dollar funding for global financial institutions, particularly those headquartered outside the United States. MMFs proved to be a source of considerable instability... View Details
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

written at a time when online lending was nonexistent, let alone the fastest growing segment of the market. 2. Set universal rules and guidelines to strengthen borrower protections An important precondition of a national charter should be... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

firm to master all these skills, let alone house them under one roof. Second, a pool of low-cost yet highly skilled labor has emerged in developing countries, creating incentives to substitute these for higher-cost equivalents. Indeed,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

balanced manner." It would be important to determine how often physicians feel pressured into prescribing drugs inappropriately.— Joel Weissman Although persuasion may be desirable from a medical perspective, just under half of our... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

modularity and software evolution, which can be used for description, prediction, and prescription. According to Baldwin and Clark's theory, modular architectures add value to system designs by creating options to improve the system by View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

contests. Industries discussed include energy, green technology, infrastructure and cities, and sustainability. In addition, the importance of fostering a collaborative online environment and protecting intellectual property is explored.... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

Emergency Medicine What Does It Take to Change an Editor's Mind? Identifying Minimally Important Difference Thresholds for Peer Reviewer Rating Scores of Scientific Articles By: Callaham, Michael, and Leslie John Abstract—Study... View Details

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