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- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
Powerbrands and high growth categories and to nurture the Powerbrands with innovation and roll them out globally. The Powerbrands had steady double digit growth year over year, attracted a devoted customer base, and typically grabbed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
provide electricity that is affordable, and reliable, and sustainable, using a technology called solar-powered mini-grids. What that means is, we provide electricity to people who don't have it in rural villages across West Africa.... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
But certainly, I think, in thinking about the VC profile, I think even if you have a cool technology and you think it's going to change the world, I think you have to make a business case for it. But I think sometimes potentially... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
ones. For example, the two Mars missions launched in 1998 were given a budget of only half that of Mars Pathfinder, well before anyone knew how Pathfinder would fare. As one NASA executive remarked, "It was like being in the Olympic View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
things like “strategy,” “focused activity level,” and “crisis response,” performance was dramatically improved when study subjects worked in the optimal conditions (with high rates of ventilation and low concentrations of carbon dioxide... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
technology and we have the systems, and they'd work if only people would use them," Ashraf says. "But in doing that, we're not realizing that they should be part of the process. Asking them to apply something that's been generated... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
"misbehavior," as the researchers term it, behavior that is largely unseen by the advertisers or even the affiliate networks themselves. Since they are only paid if a purchase is made, these websites use technology to convince—some... View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
water management technologies because they were aware of its weaknesses. "The basic problem from the farmers' point of view is that the water is in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Reinhardt. It's also one of the reasons... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
lose money. Also, the quality of comic books today has never been better; it’s not the old days when they were printed on pulp paper. When they’re done well, they’re a high form of art. Who reads Marvel comic books today? Generally... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
average cardholder owned 4.6 credit cards. On some of these cards, interest rates were as high as 30 percent. The use of consumer credit, while by no means new, reached unprecedented levels in the early twenty-first century .... View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
Boris Groysberg and communications professional Michael Slind discuss the power of talk as a way to recapture high levels of employee engagement and strategic alignment. This excerpt identifies four elements critical to creating... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
to improve their financial situation by rushing new ventures to market. In doing so, they sacrifice quality standards and ultimately underperform their peers. This is particularly problematic in high tech, where entrants need strong... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
course of action). It shows that persuasion and authority are complements at low levels of effectiveness but substitutes at high levels. Furthermore, the principal will rely more on persuasion when agent motivation is more important for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
so that it would act in the national interest. Exporting began to be seen as a route to development, and foreign firms offered both the technology and access to markets that might make exports possible. Many state-owned firms—some of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
what you’re offering,” she continues. “Coordinating all the pieces and players not only for Linear Air, but for the industry to get off the ground, is an interesting creative challenge for the entrepreneur.” The ability to respond quickly to changing market conditions... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
VR beyond gamers and technology enthusiasts was off to a slower start in general due to high cost, lack of quality content, and some user discomfort while using the technology. Wang endeavors to be the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
between keeping one's distance and staying involved. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-114.pdf Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts By: Mollick, Ethan R., and Ramana Nanda... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
add-on that’s separate from the financial numbers–laden annual report. “To have real impact,” they write, “these separate reports need to be integrated” into a single One Report that reveals how a company is making sustainability a commitment to View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
OTT, along with a recession, and use it to analyze cord-cutting behavior (i.e., dropping of cable/satellite subscriptions). We find high levels of cord cutting during this time and evidence that it became relatively more prevalent among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
inspector for the government, and his mother raised their three children. During his years at Burnaby South High School, he didn’t establish himself as a member of any particular clique, instead associating with many different kinds of... View Details