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25 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

Like archaeologists digging on a remote hillside, business researchers have unearthed an important segment of the United States economy all but hidden from traditional innovation policy, yet accounting for tens of millions of jobs crucial... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service

03 Dec 2015
Blog Post

4 Things You Need to Know About Independent Projects

or both semesters. 3. Faculty members sponsor independent projects You should approach the professor you want to work with as early as you can. You should be prepared to design the IP objectives, goals, and deliverables more-or-less... View Details

01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

balancing profit, growth and control. Difficulties encountered in the business are due to management's attempts to design and use formal control systems to achieve profit and performance goals. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details

Keywords: Well-being; Judgment And Decision Making; Health; Prosocial Behavior

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

are designed by or center people with disabilities. With 1 in 4 Americans living with disabilities, it’s imperative that all companies center product inclusion at the beginning of the product development cycle. Rea Savla: Solara, my... View Details

15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

Australia's leading science and research agency, and it was chartered to enhance national prosperity through R&D. Its Flagships program was designed to align research... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End

Isao Okada of Osaka Seikei Univerity and HBS marketing professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser—a longtime student and observer of the Olympics—conducted extensive field research at 10 of the 12 Summer Olympics sites since the 1972 Munich... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Sports

13 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

require. “Without a soul, without human insight, the capabilities of the machine will be limited,” a group of 13 marketing scholars write in their working paper, Soul and Machine (Learning), which takes a high-level view of the present and future role of machine... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

04 Aug 2011
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How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

Summing Up Does Common Sense Impede Change? Common sense is the decision-maker's friend when the decision has to be made rapidly, with a minimum of research or formal theory, with no more than moderate risk or consequences, and by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

discuss her research and the enduring power of Adam Smith's ideas. Ann Cullen: How did you and your coauthors come to be interested in this lesser known publication of Adam Smith? Nava Ashraf: Several years ago while taking a graduate... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

06 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

broadening our focus to understand how people can get other essential but taxing managerial tasks accomplished. Joshua is currently working on research designed to help managers and executives handle complex... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

underlying your strategy and analyze how it's implemented through your business processes and structures. Drawing on decades of research into performance management systems and organization design, Seven Strategy Questions is a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2018
Case

Scaling Swagbucks (A)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble

In early 2014, Chuck Davis (HBS '86) has joined Swagbucks as its first professional CEO to scale a successful and profitable brand promotion and consumer research business. Davis came into the job while serving as a venture partner at TCV, a growth stage VC firm,... View Details

Keywords: Loyalty Management; Scaling; Scale; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Leading Change; Growth Management; Religion; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Transition; Leadership; Web Services Industry; Technology Industry

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06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

seem to want. For example, Kodak first began to sense that digital imaging might pose a threat to its core business in the mid-1990s. It invested more than $2 billion in research and development. However, it framed the challenge as,... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

25 Feb 2020
News

Task Force

money. But they also learned Mexicans loved their smartphones and wanted to earn more money, despite the hassle of two-hour job commutes. Given their backgrounds in retail, Campbell and Monroy focused on seven different industry use cases, including market View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

23 Jun 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms

Keywords: by Raphael Amit, Yuan Ding, Belén Villalonga & Hua Zhang

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Frequently Asked Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

assemble high quality local camera crews and co-ordinate with interviewees, we need a local support base. We have made particular use of Harvard Business School’s network of global research centers . We have also benefitted from the... View Details

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

expertly craft research reports. Asher Salik Student at New York University Prepare for the MBA classroom with the program Harvard Business School offers to incoming students. I majored in engineering and minored in economics as an... View Details

22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22

We then introduce a framework that provides a unified perspective on these research streams, thereby highlighting some important areas for future research and policy analysis in entrepreneurial finance.... View Details