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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
direct-to-consumer would have to involve direct relationships with multiple manufacturers—or seem to; I don't know if it has to require that. And no one has found the model to do that. Q: Do you think part of Webvan's demise was a problem... View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
mouths have an opportunity to do something like Harley’s doing?” A prison conviction leads to multiple employment rejections After losing his father at age 15, Blakeman fell into hard drug use. After he was incarcerated in a Georgia... View Details
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
company had performed well and was gaining momentum. Interline was a rare asset in terms of the scale it had reached. However, there were still unknowns. Would buyers reward Interline with a high valuation multiple that reflected its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
multiple official languages, at least one of which is strong or weak FTR. Painstakingly going through and coding each company according to the dominant language in its headquarters city, they were able to show CSR scores differed by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
women (or men) with multiple commitments. The implication is that women in leadership will be more likely than men to rethink work in this fashion. Sandberg's advice largely assumes that work will not be rethought. Instead, women will... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
private equity firms and strategic companies. With this effect, a strategic company financing multiple long-term projects won't be as drawn to take advantage of cheap debt just because it's available, for the reason that it will still... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
continuously learning from others and reinventing themselves. Let’s explore those in turn: Adaptability. Like many industries, the NFL has seen rapid growth and evolution over the past 25 years. Multiple rounds of rule changes have... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory constraints. As common in practice, the retailer does not know the consumer's purchase probability at each price and must learn the mean demand from sales data. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
generating sponsorship revenue? KCON LA and KCON Tokyo have made a profit for multiple years in a row, and KCON NY was in the black for the first time in 2016, but other KCONs lost money. What can they do to further grow the Bibigo brand... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
tighter coupling is more likely in suppliers with certain types of managerial structures (certified management system and unions). We also find important interactions between these organizational structures: managerial structures offset efficiency structures, and the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
products offered to customers—has recently been used as a competitive advantage for both brick-and-mortar and online retailers. Fast-fashion retailers have differentiated themselves by rotating their assortment multiple times throughout a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
Systems with multiple components that are tightly linked to one another are prone to such events. Increasingly, our industrial, commercial, and social systems are coming to have the characteristics that predict system-level accidents—in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
itself into the world's third largest luxury retailer with multiple brands. The company had performed well even after the departure of star designer Tom Ford and former CEO Domenico De Sole. However, the challenging global economic times... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
could teach the richest nation on earth about how to finance infrastructure. But, there are important lessons in multiple examples of roads, power, ports, and water projects that actually get built, thanks to successful funding models.... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
stroke, multiple sclerosis, or other ailments. More than 80 percent of stroke survivors live with residual gait impairments, and helping patients in clinics involves manual, labor-intensive work. The lab is not only developing equipment... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
while average companies in France, Germany, and Japan may all look quite different from each other, those countries' best-performing multinationals look quite similar. "When you consider the top-quartile companies across multiple... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
patients and lack of innovation. 3. The key to addressing these problems is moving to value-based, positive-sum competition. Unlike zero-sum competition where there is a winner and a corresponding loser, positive-sum competition can involve View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
application, based upon data from multiple APM systems. The research was conducted in collaboration with a European automotive company, using two months of live application data. We show that our model detects abnormal system behavior... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
customers that purchased multiple insurance policies since they tended to be more loyal and profitable. Whether these moves would be sufficient to catch up with GEICO was unclear, but they seemed to be working well against State Farm and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
society) than any other development in the past decade. The western dominated economy and society of the past century has yielded way to a new global century, in which no one country or region enjoys an undisputed advantage. Instead, we are seeing View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne