car sharing - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

do you mean by that? Neeley: Work groups are not static. They are dynamic, including our sentiments about our experiences within them. With virtuality, we need to work extra hard to ensure that we are all on the same page. That is, it’s very important in a remote... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

enables the fledgling units to share important resources from the traditional units—cash, talent, expertise, customers, and so on," they write, "but the organizational separation ensures that these new units' distinctive... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

02 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

habits as well, such as a growing preference for sharing items rather than owning them, and encouraging "showrooming" where shoppers visit stores only to test products—then buy them more cheaply online. The user benefits from lower cost,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Jan 2018
First Look

January 30, 2018

role of telecommunications firms in providing content. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53774 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

music to advertising to industrial products. (A course segment on organizations that tried to change and failed—like Nokia—is also included.) "We talk about why Google would buy Nest—a thermostat company—and how it is also getting into the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

22 Dec 2015
First Look

December 22, 2015

Robert S. Kaplan, Katelyn Brinegar, Nicole Bassoff, H. Benjamin Harvey, James A. Brink, and Anand Prabhakar Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50229 Racial Discrimination in the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Project Beacon had VUCA written all over it. Huber's team spent a few weeks brainstorming ideas of what Project Beacon should be and do—a daunting task for a guy who knew little about the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

29 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019

Business, Too Couples with deliberate rituals feel more satisfied with their relationships. Can businesses also benefit? The Ferrari Way Secretive sports car maker Ferrari opens up about how it has bucked industry trends to achieve... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

innovation by creating uncertainty and convince risk-averse companies to pull back on R&D. When a bicyclist was killed by an Uber autonomous car in Arizona in 2018, for example, the company suspended the program—even though the crash... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

21 May 2018
HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

you're buying a car, and then you find out six months later that the car will cost 25 percent less. It’s terrible.” The perceived value of an object by buyers is essential, especially if you look at customers as relationships rather than... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

investments by sharing in the profits generated by broadcasting rights and advertising revenues. The founders initially placed a $100 million fundraising target on the fund, which will invest in young growth-stage companies. Causeway has... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

26 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology

15 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

systems with recursive influence between environments and interactions, studies of micro-processes in organizations often assume implicitly that interactions among organizational members are closed systems. We suggest that this incompatibility between assumptions may... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jun 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

charging issuers of securities being rated. While the "investor pays" business model allows a wide sharing of ratings to investors for free, it has raised concerns about conflict of interest, since raters' derive their revenue... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services

30 May 2019
What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

says, ‘I left my heart in San Francisco,’ but it wasn’t the ‘little cable cars climbing half-way to the stars’—it was the willingness to follow a long path of discovery and try and fail repeatedly until one succeeded. And the best... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

When Product Variety Backfires

Traditional wisdom teaches that brands win market share by offering a wide variety of products, increasing the chance of appealing to a wider variety of customers. But how happy are you when trying to find a head cold remedy at the... View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products

17 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

Teixeira, which identifies the ingredients necessary to create online videos so compelling that viewers will not only want to watch them but also actively seek them out and share them with friends, family, and coworkers. The research... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

have been experimenting with integrated project delivery—a collaborative process that involves unprecedented teamwork and shared decision making throughout a design and building project. A number of companies are developing... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

30 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

Systems Approach in Venezuela: Laying the Foundation for Shared Value in a Time of Crisis No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/917409-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-014 Korea... View Details