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- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
orientations, and political beliefs, helps us capture the very best thinking,” he explains. “When people from diverse areas of expertise all put their ideas on the table, there’s often greater agreement than you might imagine.” Shumway... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
Respond: Capturing the Value of Network Era Technologies, a book that documents the technology-aided shift many companies are currently undertaking from a "make-and-sell" mentality to one in which they are able to "sense and respond" to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
slides through remote Wyoming. Source: Kevin Dooley Second, citizens are generating what Luca calls “digital exhaust,” data generated online as part of their daily activities, which could be captured by cities to give clues into their... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
phone from those who fear the technology will be used to capture personal information. Bigbelly aims to add digital advertising to its connected waste and recycling stations. While their ads are static for the time being, the potential... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
trying to manage the company. They have to give the guidance, or set the trends, but they can't be managing the company." Where to draw the line between the board and management troubled our interviewees. Two directors' comments effectively View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
setup is as unobtrusive as sitting in front of a computer monitor. Eye movements are captured by an optical sensor using infrared light reflected off the cornea. When his advisor at Michigan showed him a huge dataset collected from... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
light, not itchy, and captures no odor. Of his first $200,000 in seed financing, he spends a $100,000 creating a "brand blueprint," an architecture for what the brand needs to look like some day to exploit this advantage in... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
the description? So are CEOs who are new to the role. Just when an executive feels he has reached the pinnacle of his career, capturing the coveted goal for which he has so long been striving, he begins to realize that the CEO's job is... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
media," said Keith Clinkscales (HBS MBA '90). As an undergraduate at Florida A&M, Clinkscales said he was exposed to the power of the urban entertainment culture and wanted to start a business that captured that energy. After... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
party." Can it, however, be organized to capture the advantages of both face-to-face and electronic contact? And does the peace of mind from telecommuting enhance the learning that takes place when humans do occasionally meet? What... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
practiced; what it means to be a “health care provider” needs to expand to include caregivers without advanced clinical degrees; and the United States needs a new health insurance model. Huckman concludes, “It is critical to start considering how the lessons of this... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
capture important information seemingly ignored by the market. A long-short portfolio based on these legislators' views earns abnormal returns of over 90 basis points per month following the passage of legislation. Industries that we... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
of others and spotting problem-solving capabilities, you are less confident about asserting your own interests and maximizing your share. Assertive Value-Claimer (10 percent): You are confident about advocating for your own interests and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
disperse their activities to capture the opportunities and cost advantages of doing business around the world. Yet sourcing the low-cost inputs and building assembly plants in low-wage nations do not make a global strategy. Instead,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
how elevated footbridges connect competing resorts in Las Vegas today, a true metaverse could allow users to hop between different and even competing worlds, rather than confining them to separate closed-off experiences. While new technologies have View Details
- 30 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)
remained heavily engaged in nonprofit work while at the same time starting to explore her interest in business. This time, it was her father’s for-profit business career that captured her curiosity, and an on-campus business gave her the... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
increasing number of entrepreneurs reading HBR. How do you find your authors? We receive thousands of submissions each year, but about half of our articles are actually acquired by the editors. Sometimes we simply decide, “So-and-so is extremely smart. We should be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
Assistant Professor Randy Cohen, I enjoy a graphic demonstration of how today’s technology can be brought to bear on learning. The section works together through a spreadsheet that models an exercise in forest management, building formulas that View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace
Children's Hospital & Clinics of Minnesota COO Julie Morath to increase patient safety at the hospital captures proactive inquiry perfectly: “Was everything as safe as you would like it to have been this week with your patients?” Ways... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
management practices, but low enough that they were familiar with day-to-day operations. The researchers also chose to target primarily small and medium-sized firms, employing between 100 and 5,000 workers, to maximize the chances that the interview would View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel