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- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
meet internal production benchmarks associated with salient calendar periods...,” according to the researchers. Salespeople who scramble to meet end-of-term quotas are familiar with the phenomenon. Read the paper: View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
will do so, which results in market inefficiency. Second, the model provides a new argument for why it is usually entrants, not incumbents, who bring major technological innovations to the market. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-080.pdf The View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
the moral and military ambiguity of profits and power as well as the often-jealous interactions between different solutions to the problem of empire. The book presents a mosaic of imperial theories and... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
or relax. There are also important environmental benefits—no local emissions, flexible power sources, and reduced energy consumption thanks to lightweight vehicles and automated guidance to prevent unnecessary starts and stops. All this... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
Succession planning is hard work: It must be embraced by the organization and driven by the CEO. In the book, Bower identifies best practices companies can follow to identify, groom, and train internal candidates for the C-suite. We asked... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
necessary arrangements with the next-of-kin of the simulated victims. This was not a one-time exercise; it is carried out periodically. Ironically, the mythical crash had occurred at the New Orleans International Airport. Another was a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jan 2013
- What Do You Think?
Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?
failing MBA students are about helping the students overcome their fears of engaging in classroom discussion, to improve the frequency of their classroom contributions.) These are all points made in a new book by Susan Cain, Quiet: The View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Breaks in Interaction Improve Collective Intelligence By: Bernstein, Ethan, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer Abstract— People influence each other when they interact to solve problems. Such social influence introduces both benefits (higher average View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
door-to-door censuses across thousands of villages. Enter IDinsight, a nonprofit that helps international development organizations use data and evidence to realize their goals. IDinsight helped Educate Girls leverage available census,... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
col¬leagues would be able to tell the difference. After quite a bit of negotiating, Greg was ready to make a purchase: a copy of a Panerai Luminor Power Reserve men's watch, which typically sells for about $7,000 in the United States.... View Details
Keywords: Re: Francesca Gino
- Blog
Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs
in-person classroom experience. The program was very well organized and managed. Kristine Schmidt (KS): While I have done both the in-person class and now the virtual class, both have their tremendous benefits including developing View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
empirical lacuna, we have developed a research program to measure the internal organization of firms—including their decentralization decisions—across a large range of industries and countries. Enamored with Scale: Scaling with Limited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
four firms account for 75 percent of the Australian market. Research by my colleagues Jan Rivkin and Tarun Khanna suggests that industry structure can be quite different around the world. The wine industry is a great example of this phenomenon. For instance, consider... View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
networks as we know them, with their devices, will cease to exist within the next decade. These bit based clod machines will yield to a kind of biologic environment, where the systems are secondary to the need constantly adapting and rebuilding I am positive that the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
billion for SpaceX) from NASA. One can only imagine the pressure under which developers were working at Boeing. The result? A failure to reach its destination, the International Space Station. While the cause is under investigation, early... View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Millions of people are dying around the world because they cannot access diagnostic tools to manage their health. DFA aims to solve this problem with an elegantly simple solution that puts the power of a... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
celebrities, developers, and news publishers. She also leads mergers and acquisitions. “Facebook’s mission is about giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together,” she says. “In the short time I’ve been in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
as pure profit maximizers, assuming that market forces alone will ensure that farmers benefit. Even when e-intermediation benefits farmers, it is insufficient to mitigate the negative effects of supply fragmentation, suggesting that for farmers, market View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
how to manage up; Cultivate a mutually beneficial relationship with your manager; Communicate effectively with your boss about priorities and problems; and Negotiate win-win solutions to on-the-job challenges with your supervisor.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York
lifted out of poverty, the standard of living we have created, the kinds of jobs we've created it all came from the enormous force for good that is business." This powerful idea paved the way for the new Institute for the Study of... View Details