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  • 06 Jun 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

behaviors. As a result, for example, four in five product introductions perform below expectations. The Zaltmans expand on ideas they have been studying for some years, namely that strategies of all kinds... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model

Keywords: by Vishal Gaur, Richard Lai, Ananth Raman & William Schmidt
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

cost performance of IT technologies over the first forty years changed by roughly 107, and for the foreseeable future will continue to evolve at the same rate. That is in sharp contrast to a train, which after eighty years moved six times... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

independently from the way it chooses to compete in product markets. Some companies have gone further. Consider the case of GE Medical Systems (GEMS), the division that Jeffrey Immelt built up between 1997 and 2000 before he was tapped to... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
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Ellen Desmarais Bio Ellen Desmarais is Co-President of Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), a not-for-profit independent 501(3) corporation that is an affiliate of Harvard Business School. HBP bridges academia, enterprise learning, and media through multiple View Details
  • 04 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 4

presented at different stages of decision making prior to a purchase. We examine the sequence-dependent effects of price and product information on the decision-making process at both neural and behavioral levels. During functional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 10 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

While the US Food and Drug Administration has chiseled away pharmaceutical review times over the years to speed innovative drugs to market, the opposite seems to have occurred in the agency's approval of medical devices. Instead of speeding innovative first-mover View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology
  • February 2009 (Revised August 2021)
  • Supplement

Jieliang Phone Home! (B)

By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have... View Details
Keywords: Managing People; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Production; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Labor; Surveys; Decisions; Manufacturing Industry; China
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  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

productivity on a subsequent task. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-090.pdf Box-Tickers to Frame-Makers: Transformations in the Roles of Functional Experts Authors:Matthew Hall, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

Incentive But the real advantage of open source, Lerner and Tirole discovered, is in the delayed or signaling incentives, where the visibility of the programmer's contribution counts most. Open source projects measure individual View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
  • April 2010
  • Article

Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930

By: Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio
There is a large literature looking at the determinants of country risk (defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk-free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory factor is the... View Details
Keywords: Bonds; Performance Capacity; Taxation; Revenue; Governance; Geographic Location; Trade; Price; Cost of Capital; Risk and Uncertainty; Public Administration Industry; Brazil
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  • 01 Jan 2013
  • News

Thai Lee, MBA 1985

grown into a top-ranked provider of IT products and services. With an industry-high of 99 percent in customer retention, SHI is one of the largest privately held firms in its field. The company employs more than 2,300 people at its... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 17 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

supporting caregivers a critical talent management issue, according to a new report, The Caring Company: How Employers Can Cut Costs and Boost Productivity by Helping Employees Manage Caregiving Needs, by Harvard Business School’s Joseph... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

(September-October 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/gyu/TWFR%20Sept-Oct%202011%20The%20Return%20Experience%20of%20Hedge%20Fund%20Investors.pdf Dynamically Integrating Knowledge in Teams: A Resource-based View of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
  • Supplement

Jieliang Phone Home! (C)

By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators - bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Compensation and Benefits; Surveys; Innovation and Invention; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Manufacturing Industry; Telecommunications Industry; China
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  • 13 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

mature industries, nascent markets offer little certainty and plenty of ambiguity—undefined customers, unclear products or features, uncertain customer demand, and even an ill defined set of competitors. Yet, for these startups to have... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

Hyun Jin KimHarvard Business School Case 711-020 Patagonia was deeply committed to the environment. This commitment, at times, conflicted with the company's goal to create the most innovative products in its industry. Patagonia's founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

nation's wealth. After all, new tools—from the telegraph to the PC—enable expedited production of goods and services, eventually facilitating economic growth. Technological tools also improve a country's perceived standard of living, as... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

Danaher, a conglomerate with brands in diagnostics, life sciences, and environmental and applied solutions. "Stars practice, and they keep practicing long after they become stars." Toyota employs a system known as the Toyota Production... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden