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- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
male/female responses regarding gender diversity were less harmonious. Asked whether quotas (like Norway's) are a positive or a negative for corporate boardrooms, 42 percent of women were pro-quota, versus 16 percent of men. Regarding whether quotas are an effective... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
"I don't present these approaches as cure-alls, saying if you just run a contest or a corporate venture program everything's going to be wonderful," Lerner says. "But there's a lot of promise and potential in this tool... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
adequate policy response, nor that coordination is at all easy. The fact of frequent, effective diffuse interest representation suggests that we must look more closely at the incentives and tools by which advocates overcome the very real... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
Norway, cartels received support from the Norwegian government when they were deemed to be beneficial to Norwegian economic interests. The legislation was used to foster the development of domestic cartels, while at the same time it was employed as a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
relaxations of fairness constraints can result in life-year gains on the order of 30 percent. As such, we believe this is a valuable tool in the policy-design process." The authors are preparing a new version that is specifically... View Details
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
head of the distribution than the tail. Children's titles tend to generate higher returns in the head than dramas, documentaries, and foreign movies. Using this approach and accounting for a title's age, it's possible to calculate the value of an inventory at various... View Details
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
skills do we need to teach managers of such businesses? Where you have massive uncertainty, you can't rely on a lot of the traditional tools of analysis to support decision making. But, once we get outside those traditional tools, what do... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
management provided a new tool to increase customer satisfaction. Because the order is an extension of the customer, it needed to be treated particularly well. The focus on order cycle management enabled companies to become much more... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 05 Jul 2022
- Op-Ed
Hear Me Out: Introverts Can Be Loud and You Might Like Microsoft Teams
not just because it’s ‘free.’ You’ve left completely unaddressed the key point that many, many companies use other MS products, particularly Outlook/Exchange email, and that using Teams simplifies the IT and business management of companies’ View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
generating goodwill in a nonaggressive way. Q: You write a lot about interactions between humans and technology. Are computers the perfect tool for customized marketing? A: The tailoring of messages via computer technology to a person's... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
Many tools for rating the performance of mutual funds and their managers rely heavily on past performance. But what about the future? Now comes a system devised by Randolph B. Cohen and Joshua D. Coval of Harvard Business School, and... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
decades. This article provides tools to identify the situations and circumstances that will be most favorable for private sector involvement in consideration of these trends. The first trend is urbanization. Over the next twenty years,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
construction of blackness has been an economic tool for centuries; it has been used as a means of sourcing under- or wholly unpaid labor, rationalized by an attribution of blacks’ biological inferiority. Though research has since amassed... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
Microsoft rebranded its PDA operating system from Windows CE to Pocket PC in an attempt to influence users to think of a PDA as analogous to a PC. So by proactively defining the new product in a particular manner, the hope was to influence the way that people framed... View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
is Google Chrome. Initially considered a tool for browsing the web, Wu writes, “Today, it is fair to say that Chrome is both: an application capable of running on most operating systems, and an operating system that runs the Chrome suite... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
interactions and non-linear effects, relative to traditional methods. In summary, ML methods could act as a complementary tool to both existing inductive theory-creating methods such as multiple case inductive studies and traditional... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
of attention. The design of work units, spans of control, and spans of accountability are the main structural tools to influence work and information flows and to direct organizational attention to ensure that everyone is working toward... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
start, locate, or invest in a city. As HBS professor Michael Porter has explained in The Competitive Advantage of Nations, political units—whether nations or cities - are in competition with each other and can control their destiny using the analytical View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
Internet. "The more tools you have in your tool kit, the more chance you'll have to succeed." "Whatever area they choose," Krasnow said of would-be entrepreneurs, "they've got to... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
efforts to refine search capabilities. With that in mind, panel moderator Thomas R. Eisenmann, associate professor of Entrepreneurial Management at HBS, noted that the next wave in search tools is going beyond material on the World Wide... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette