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- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
centers, to some extent, on whether there should be a publicly administered alternative to the private health care system, as opposed to other... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
together accounted for 72 percent of total dollar volume in a hctar sample of the apparel market. But in the long run, the researchers see this as an inefficient strategy for satisfying the requirements of lean retailers. Going forward, they predict, the preferable... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
projects, and whether those projects are going to deliver environmental benefits.” The projects include efforts to create alternative energy by building solar panels and wind... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
should ever walk into an office and have the door closed or feel she has to show up alone to a hotel room?” Companies should also provide employees with extensive training... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
If companies and regulators are ever to learn from the collapse of Enron—and prevent similar corporate debacles in the future—they must look more closely at the relationship between auditors, managers and the company audit committee. The... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-064.pdf Comparing the Cash Policies of Public and Private Firms By: Farre-Mensa, Joan Abstract—I document that public U.S. firms hold twice as much cash as large privately held firms, a surprising finding that is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
It's clear that inequality in America has grown at a fast clip in recent years. From 1980 to 2010, the top 1 percent's share of income has doubled from 10 percent to 20 percent, while the income share of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
results contribute to the literature on how alternative organizational forms can be designed to solve complex innovation tasks. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton and the hard-bargaining style of Herb Cohen's You Can Negotiate Anything. Now Michael Wheeler provides a dynamic alternative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
flat-footed on the issue of fuel efficiency? Granted, Detroit was busy catering to consumer demands for more profitable, lower-mileage vehicles. But at the same time, could stretch have given greater urgency View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
obstruct change necessitated by unexpected deviations from the plan. More broadly, by contrasting vigorous missionary work and reluctant evangelism as alternative pathways, we demonstrate how market-creation efforts can undermine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
take on leadership responsibilities when delivering care. Evidence suggests that effective clinical leadership yields superior clinical outcomes. However, few residency programs systematically teach all residents how to lead, and many... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
2016 Random House The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change By: Anand, Bharat Abstract—Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 2024
- Case
Ather Energy: The Future of Mobility
By: Shunyuan Zhang, Kannan Srinivasan and Malini Sen
Ather Energy, India’s third-largest electric scooter maker by volume, was founded in 2013. Five years later, the start-up launched its first electric scooter, Ather 450, which was powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), to navigate... View Details
Keywords: Energy Policy; Climate Change; Alternative Energy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Transportation; Transformation; Green Technology; Technology Adoption; Communication Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Business Strategy; Segmentation; Asia; India
Zhang, Shunyuan, Kannan Srinivasan, and Malini Sen. "Ather Energy: The Future of Mobility." Harvard Business School Case 525-040, November 2024.
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Working PapersHiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, Christopher Malloy Abstract We test the hypothesis that firms appoint independent directors who are overly sympathetic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
knowledge to solving the problems of individual patients—offer enormous potential to help patients and the U.S. health-care system overall, says HBS senior lecturer Richard M.J. Bohmer, a physician and... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
market, namely, limited exit and new investment opportunities. As Enfoca faced an aging fund, its leadership team began considering alternatives to the traditional private equity fund model. This case... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
retention. Lessons For Businesses For employers, the implications of the findings are pretty clear: "Given that the standard, organization-focused approach of employee socialization is so common, it would benefit managers to think... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
avoidable ways. This article is based on the analysis of hundreds of work diaries from professionals describing everyday events that involved high-level managers in their companies. The analysis uncovered four major types of actions that reduce meaningfulness in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel