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- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
collected information from some 300 large American firms, focusing primarily on the period between 1986 and 1999. By evaluating a combination of confidential compensation surveys, public accounting records, and technology investment data,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
on the country's industrial commons, which represents the collective capability to sustain innovation. Gary Pisano: Is there a future? Yes. It's not too late. There's still a manufacturing base in the United States, and it's quite large... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures. Methods: Utilizing a prospectively collected retrospective database, we identified patients who underwent isolated CABG (n=3726), AVR (n=1626), MV repair (n=731),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
production. Importantly, firms are not the only entities to participate in the new ecosystems. The Internet and other social media have dramatically lowered the cost of communication and collective action, and thus users are increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
airports. As people begin to internalize the collective nature of public health, sharing of personal health and air quality metrics—using wearables and smartphones—could lead to new applications that provide real-time information about... View Details
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
which would be provided by the government), a joint public-private partnership of the type described above could retrain 16.7 million workers, or an average of 1.67 million per year. At the end of the 10-year period, they would View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
asset accumulators of the future” A new breed of financial technology companies, known collectively as fintech, has taken advantage of these traits to disrupt an unexpected industry: personal investing. Just as manufacturing companies... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
virtual shopping carts. Another fake: claim credit (and commissions) where none is due. Hogan was charged by eBay of collecting millions of dollars in commissions on purchases he did not generate. How can marketers protect themselves from... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
Over the course of six years, the research team collected detailed biographical information on each VC, including ethnicity, educational background, and employment history. They then looked at who had invested with whom, and what those... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
flag. Q: What are you working on next? A: This paper is a presentation of the methodology and a collection of descriptive statistics. I also have a series of papers that return to the case study of the Korean entrepreneur, characterizing... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
understanding of design and manufacturing processes to instruct successfully her American and offshore contractors on how to mass-produce designer clothing at affordable prices. Claiborne was an industry pioneer in many ways. She developed detailed customer feedback... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
York, Los Angeles, and Denver have worked with private partners to emphasize public transportation and start to de-emphasize single-driver cars. Despite obvious obstacles (e.g., you live in a suburb or own a store that can be accessed only by car), if the city View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
group behavior or evolutionary processes and can uniquely reveal non-linear dynamics and emergence—the process whereby local interactions aggregate into often surprising collective phenomena, such as spatial segregation and relational... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
Bank loans and foreign aid to the government did not then and would not in the future reduce poverty, especially among the 80 percent of the population that lived in the countryside. Millions of rural Kazakhs had been left destitute when, with the end of communism, the... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
pointing out that without initiatives to create a vast infrastructure, progress achieved by innovators and venture investors will be piecemeal. In his words, "What will NOT emerge without collective government action are the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
that can arise. Huckman provides guidelines for setting clear objectives, getting the boundaries between units right, establishing rules for sharing, and customizing performance criteria. And, he says, leaders must continually remind units of their individual and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
Science (New York: Portfolio, 2009). Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (New York: HarperCollins, 2005) James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter than the Few and How... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
are particularly interested in understanding how, if at all, the firm should go about effecting meaningful word-of-mouth (WOM). To tackle this problem, we collect data from two sources: 1) We implemented a large-scale field test in which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
should take that diversity seriously rather than trying to find a one-size-fits-all management prescription. Moreover, if you look at Baker Library's historical collections before 1933, it is clear that they were View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
largely emphasizes the collective benefits of market creation and overlooks the costs borne by individual evangelists. Through an inductive multiple-case study of five startup competitors, we traced firms’ efforts to stake out a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne