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13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

just simply that it exists, and that society needs to understand how it works. Ultimately, she concludes, government has a regulatory role to play in the baby trade. We asked Spar to discuss her research. Manda Salls: Why did you want to write this book? Debora L.... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

01 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

to have any further potential. Once the project was sidelined, IBM decided to publish it on its AlphaWorks Web site, where outsiders could examine and download various IBM software. Soon thereafter, IBM managers noticed that this... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

Journal of Consumer Research has published just three articles on negotiation (Dwyer 1984; Schurr and Ozanne 1985; Corfman and Lehmann 1993). In addition, as I consider the negotiation literature outside of JCR, I realize that it has... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

and nonprofit organizations. Barrett discussed her new HBS working paper, published with Professor James Austin and Sheila McCarthy, on "Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative." Diana... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

First, information of the sort that would allow shareholders to police corporate behavior on issues, such as the use of child labor, is not easily accessible. Although some companies, such as Royal Dutch Shell, have started to publish... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

23 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

authors also teamed to write The Magic of Innovation, published in the European Business Review earlier this year. A Magical Process Thomke maintains that innovative managers looking to create successful new products or services can... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

29 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 29

Business-to-Business Marketing, edited by Gary L. Lilien and Rajdeep Grewal. Edward Elgar Publishing Company, 2012 Abstract This chapter focuses on the topic of coordinating marketing and sales in Business-to-Business (B2B) organizations.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

year. (Indeed, published reports confirm the notion that Francona depended on certain players to help him deliver key messages to the team.) But in 2011, absent of obvious team leaders, the Sox may have needed a top-down kind of guy.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking

01 Nov 2024
In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

stations,” the Journal reported. “Doing a layoff for the right reason is not just smart strategically, it’s smart organizationally.” Two months earlier, in July, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi published a note in the financial software firm’s... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

28 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

Harvard Business School. "Marla, my spouse, would see all kinds of things going on that I would simply miss. Why? Perhaps this was due to my tendency to focusing, and in my case, narrowly." In his forthcoming book The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail

15 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 15

Looking back, how should the company's restructuring be assessed? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811030-PDF-ENG Caijing Magazine (B) Karthik Ramanna and G.A. DonovanHarvard Business School Supplement 112-049 In late 2009, Wang Boming, View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who recently published a paper on the topic of technology commoditization in MIT Sloan Management Review. According to Shih, manufacturers are able to duplicate... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

to comprehensively analyze the demographics of leadership and access in business in the United States. The last comprehensive studies were published in 1955: (1) Mabel Newcomer's The Big Business Executive, the Factors that Made Him,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

Professor Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback write in the new preface to their book Being the Boss: The Three Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, first published in 2011 and reissued this spring, “Leadership has always been hard, and in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

2018 Northamption, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

actually contrary to previous research. Readings in Modern Marketing Author:John A. Quelch Publication:Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2006 Abstract Readings in Modern Marketing is a collection of Quelch's highly-praised scholarly articles previously View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

legal, and political history of financial globalization. This article is part of the larger project. My book, Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance, is going to be published by Harvard University Press later this year. Q: How... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

the White House. They've had conversations with multiple officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Most recently, Feeley sat down with US Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell—who published... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

07 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

and translated this insight into a sustained political and publishing campaign to ensure that the English and later the British Empire would consist of an industrializing core and a periphery producing and providing raw materials. He... View Details