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- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
improved significantly in respect to speed, convenience, and cost. For example, I get Sunday delivery of Amazon through the post office as part of my Prime membership while Amazon, Instacart, and Google Express are currently experimenting... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
bicycle but for whom the folding feature might add value? Finally, should Montague license its technology to one of the leading mainstream bicycle manufacturers in order to increase adoption vs. continuing to go it alone in the product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
he's seen improvements in the way reinsurers distribute risk over the last two decades, he still questions whether reinsurers in their current form can survive a major catastrophic event. "Reinsurers assume the risk of, and hold the... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
Even when a strategic fit is not immediately obvious, common ground can often be discovered. —James E. Austin Similarly, the National Science Resources Center (NSRC) a nonprofit organization created by the Smithsonian Institution and National Academy of Sciences to... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
had turned around by improving competitiveness in quality, design, and cost. Ford's Alan Mulally, GM CEO Ed Whitacre, and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne took different approaches to guide their respective companies to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
improved Web surfing, and RFID applications, such as the ability to hold your phone up against a product and download information about it. Asked by an audience member about the threat viruses pose to cell... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
taxation that otherwise might seem inconsistent with a rejection of tags. It also has a number of additional implications for policy, each of which improves the match between theory and reality. Q: As you've said, tagging means the... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
different way of stating the purpose. It's a way of saying we have a responsibility to live up to high standards and to use the products and services that we create to improve the world. There are some... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
providing access to being a leader and exercising leadership effectively (in short, a technology for reliably creating leaders). Our research program involves not only discovering the technology, but also creating a course that would be available to others to use,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
PublicationsThe New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance Authors:Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2010 Abstract Retailers today are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
"Firms today have access to a wealth of information about customers and sales prospects," says Narayandas. "Now more than ever before, companies are able to leverage technology to work more closely and to collaborate in new ways with customers—from... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
that the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Standard has attracted companies with superior environmental performance. After developing quasi-control groups using propensity score matching, I also find that adopters subsequently View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23
telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying and building technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is involvement in View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
improvement processes of one kind or another, innovation, and so on. With a few notable exceptions—including Jim Collins's work on "Level Five" leaders, and the treatment of leadership both in my previous book, High Commitment, High... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
exception. What they have in common are good reasons for foreign businesses and Western governments to cheer the changes. In Bahrain, the Khalifa family, members of Islam's Sunni sect, rules over a majority Shia population. This kingdom in the Persian Gulf earns $5... View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16
invested in the rural areas based on the company's participation in the government-mandated "Connect Every Village" project, China Mobile took advantage of this foundation and created new products and value-added services in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016
Then judgment—a fusion of thinking, feelings, experience, imagination, and character—becomes critical. The author offers five practical questions to improve your odds of making sound judgments: What are the net, net consequences of all my... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
practices that it became a necessary dowry item. "You couldn't get married in northern India, in a middle class or lower middle class family, unless the girl's family was ready to give a Bajaj scooter." Yet, things did not improve until... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and consumer preferences, there is a specific pattern of economic transmission whereby demand-side shocks propagate upstream (to input-supplying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
estimates of real consumption across countries without the need for consumer price index extrapolations. We discuss advantages and limitations associated with the use of online prices for PPPs, including issues of representativeness and limited coverage of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman