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- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
at the market level, then translate these into strategies at the market segment level. A paper mill's marketing strategy, for instance, might call for selling newsprint to the publishing industry segment and paperboard to the packaging industry. The third level focuses... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
Weitz No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-125.pdf PublicationsMulti-Rater Assessment of Individual Creative Contributions to Team Projects in Organizations Author:Teresa M.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
While these general factors might help a company decide in which country to invest its production, of course different factories will have different track records—so it’s important to look at View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
so different from those found in other countries. Sean Silverthorne: Why has this issue on taxing foreign profit become so central? Mihir Desai: I think there are several reasons for these developments. First, the integrated, global... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
As today's fiscal deficit and dragging economy continue to cast long shadows, it's easy to forget much darker times in American history. Shortly after winning its independence from Great Britain, the United States was bankrupt. Individual... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
those products and services to match the specific interests and desires of individual people in diverse societies around the world. They could create solutions enabling people to cope with and leverage the exploding volume of information... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
this stickiest of bottlenecks? Create business partnerships by framing the right questions, says Giusti, and then identifying and combining existing datasets for analysis to answer those questions. The organization also rallies individual... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
Whose Job Is It to Rebuild the US Middle Class? Optimism among respondents to this month’s column concerning future United States growth rates hinges on whether the middle class can be restored. That’s a big contingency. Those commenting had View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
more favorable coverage when spills were reported—the researchers performed a textual analysis of the newspaper stories, mining the text with software that ranks the tone of the words used in a given story. When they added up the scores, however, they found no View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
Nike managers failed to pick up the relevant market signals and learn from them. It took them too long to figure out that consumers wanted something different from what Nike was offering at the time. Unfortunately, Garvin states, this is... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
There’s a lot of self-learning that goes on in the process of adjusting to a different environment. “Some students are better at reaching across cultures and being effective communicators in ambiguous situations,” continues Abrami, who... View Details
- Blog
Up Close: A Return to In-Person Executive Education Programs
achievement was how routine it felt once we got back into it," said Corsino. "Yes, people were wearing masks and the snacks were individually packaged, but the broad strokes were remarkably similar to what we normally do." Throughout the... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
actively enhance the beneficial effect of sleep on creativity by covertly reactivating the creativity task during sleep. Individuals' creative performance was compared after three different conditions: sleep-with-conditioned-odor;... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
without realizing they are doing so. We further argue that ethical fading—when individuals do not “see” the ethical implications of the situation or their action—is central to explaining why this occurs. Relying on past empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
it is urgent. What does it mean to make capitalism a subject of historical inquiry? What is its potential across multiple disciplines, alongside different methodologies, and in a range of geographic and chronological settings? And how... View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
typical startup roles to help you determine which one might be the best fit for you, 2) profiles of startup executives across many different functions who share their stories and describe their responsibilities, and 3) a methodology to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
associated with risky lending in the corporate loan market by examining the performance of individual loans held by CLOs. We employ two different datasets that identify loan holdings for a large set of CLOs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
shift and the emergence of an approach that will be recognized as being totally different to the arrangements that were previously in place. Transformational change is well established in business and can deliver outstanding results. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
deal with life. And he said, Connie, think of it this way. When you and your husband are separated in different locations, you tend to make individual decisions. You'll be more and more independent from each... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
we show that individuals who spend money on time-saving services report greater life satisfaction. A field experiment provides causal evidence that working adults report greater happiness after spending money on a time-saving purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne