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- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
about how this time and money could be more effectively spent. Philanthropy is not the answer. A way must be found to align the profit-making capabilities of MNCs more effectively to poverty reduction,... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
revenue-producing capacity of the worker from $60,000 (a rough figure for the hospitality industry) to $110,000 (a similarly rough figure for “health care and social assistance”). A $30,000 investment in human infrastructure, based on... View Details
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
a confluence of factors that muddy the analysis” such as “the extremely deflationary push of technology,” one that is not measured correctly because of productivity increased... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
for public good is viewed with suspicion—in my view for very good reasons." Yet more than three dozen faculty and doctoral students from a variety of institutions gathered January 30 to give the idea serious consideration during the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
debugged. These save customers from having to reinvent the wheel. Instead, people can focus their efforts on the truly novel elements of their design. Fourth, tool kits must contain information about the View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
capabilities set a favorable foundation for the economic growth miracle the country experienced after World War II. If history is any guide, Japan should make a full recovery from the devastating effects of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
capability to draft documentation that protects against all contingencies?; and (8) Can there be a gap between the promise and the capability (a way to improve an organization's performance), or is this too... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
management team is wondering if it can take more control of distribution instead of leaving it to the Bordeaux wine merchants. Also, can the Chateau build marketing and sales View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
The customer rewards cards that clutter wallets and clog key chains of many a shopper may soon be no more, as retailers move from physical to digital (read: mobile apps) forms of loyalty program member... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
Why are so many businesses—though seemingly intent on fostering innovation—unable to get new products through their organizations and into the marketplace? Ed Ludwig faced such circumstances as the new president of New Jersey-based Becton... View Details
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
that preserve the legitimacy of capitalism—even if those rules don't directly support their companies' profit margins. "Managers have an agency responsibility to the market system as a whole," he said. And... View Details
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
Case 609-080 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
costs and profit margins; initial sales also influence the venture's trajectory of organizational skills because firms develop capabilities and routines in interactions with customers. There is also an... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
When the COVID-19 virus spread worldwide and normal life ground to a halt last year, we thought voluntary employee turnover would drop as well. But the opposite happened in one area: Lift outs—a group of workers who defect... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
Women-owned businesses are just as financially strong and creditworthy as the average U.S. firm, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Women's Business Research. Yet women struggle more than men to acquire equity capital. Why? According to a 1999 survey,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
assembling the capabilities required to succeed. But it is only the first step, because the capabilities of organizations are a function of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
economic motives behind individual concerns for privacy. Recent theories of privacy demands in commercial contexts have assumed an economically aware and sophisticated consumer, capable View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
customers whose capabilities and needs have been outstripped by the development of newer and more complex product features. In the face of a "disruptive technology,"... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett