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- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
in a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic, and then followed up with regular telephone calls to coordinate counseling, medications, and family support. Overall, outpatient costs... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
firms. In 1975, thirty of the fifty largest MSOs were subsidiaries of diversified companies. Seventeen of these thirty diversified companies were led by owner-managers—usually the firm's founder, but sometimes a second-or third-generation View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
Siemens, the Deutsche Bank, Dresdner, Bosch, BASF, and so on, all managed to somehow reconstruct and reinvent themselves after these upheavals. So I intended to write a long-term study about a company or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
work on money as an important part of my Leadership and Happiness course and look forward to catching up with his newest efforts. My extended family has agreed to share The... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
all-stock deal that is certain to go through, the note defines accouchement effects and describes the fundamental arbitrage relationship between Target and Buyer stock prices.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
Fans of the television show Mad Men are well acquainted with the mystique of the advertising business, circa 1960s, where relationships were consummated over martinis and campaigns fashioned through the... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
be used in a meaningful way by other partners. Summary Retailers seem to have an uneasy relationship with loyalty rewards programs. Many believe the programs are unsustainable in low-margin businesses or industries. But as we have shown,... View Details
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
regarding the quantity of work as well as the quality of work they are able to do. If a family is in the picture, it may require a devoted and supporting spouse willing to share household responsibilities.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
family farming; permitting again a form of mixed economy; welcoming international investment on a vast scale; and gradually limiting the state to the role of guiding, rather than running, the economy. The... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
and Failures of a Global Entrepreneur Harvard Business School Case 807-045 Bert Twaalfhoven (70; HBS '54) is faced with two offers to acquire the manufacturing holding company he had built up over 40 years. Despite the attractive price... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
schools are public schools of choice that operate outside the governance and policies of their local school districts. In nearly all states, charter schools must be open to all students, just like traditional public schools. View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Successes and Failures of a Global Entrepreneur Harvard Business School Case 807-165 Bert Twaalfhoven (70; HBS '54) is faced with two offers to acquire the manufacturing holding company he had built up over 40 years. Despite the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
performance. "Frankly, it's very fuzzy," Soltes says. "What's material to you may not be material to me, and vice versa. If the CEO tells you he's skipping his family vacation for the first time in years, is... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
Australian headquarters. The outcome of these efforts was the inception of a unique corporate-community negotiation process known as the Tintaya Dialogue Table. In December 2004, after three years of negotiation, BHP Billiton and the five... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
came from IBM in the early 1960s with the introduction of the System/360, the first modular family of computer systems." And it was modularity, Baldwin and Clark explain,... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
steady stream of orders. Like so many entrepreneurs, Dal LaMagna pursued his new idea with a vengeance, but insisted on doing it all himself. Working out of a small family bungalow in Long Island, he made deals with suppliers, figured out... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
conflicts between work and life more broadly defined. Joe Violette suggests that at least in the project-oriented environment in which he works, one should "Make your family a part of your work team... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
from initiating and smoothing communication to establishing long-lasting relationships and mutual trust, and from bargaining View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
alike: (1) securing the future through innovation strategies suitable for an emerging "white coat economy" that is discovery-based; (2) pursuing happiness by addressing the connection between work and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace