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- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
articulated by (HBS professor) Michael Porter, will be most successful when the collection of integrated and aligned activities enable the company to offer a value proposition—whether low total cost, product... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
have to select as heterogeneous a group as possible, representing different experiences, thinking styles, cultures, and attitudes. Sometimes, groups get a boost from the addition of customers or professionals from outside the company who can add a View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
in attempts to cut costs, uncovering multiple opportunities to improve processes in ways that lower total costs and deliver better care. Publications Delivering Higher Value Care Means Spending More Time with Patients HARVARD BUSINESS... View Details
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
for all titles released by a sample of over 200 artists. I analyze sales dynamics from January 2005 to April 2007—a period in which the share of unbundled units jumped from roughly one-third to two-thirds of total unit sales. My modeling... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
this period, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) delivered some important technologies for the corporation. One of the most critical inventions was laser printing for Xerox's printers and copiers, an effort that led to new Xerox View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
his position. He threatened to print on the side panel of every container of Dreyer’s ice cream the following message: “Kraft, manufacturer of such quality products as Velveeta, Cheez Whiz, and the like, has come to us after we’ve used... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
is the Bakken formation, a 25,000-square-mile underground deposit that—thanks to a rise in fracking and new oil extraction technologies—has produced as much as 1 million barrels of oil and gas a day, or about the production equivalent of... View Details
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
customer and product markets, and geopolitical environments. Professor William Fruhan leads the corporate finance piece of the curriculum, providing perspective on the globalization of financial markets. "Increasingly, there is more... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
Officer Susan Rogers, an accomplished HBS administrator with a wealth of experience in technology and other projects, including total responsibility for the recent reconstruction of Morgan Hall. Ground Wires As Upton and others involved... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
(iStockphoto/Mladen Zivkovic) Several years ago, my spouse and I turned to concierge medicine. We no longer wanted to deal with a US health care system that often provides basically anonymous, production line diagnosis and treatment... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
organs faces widespread disapproval. We survey a representative sample of Americans to assess disapproval for several forms of kidney markets and to understand why individuals disapprove by identifying factors that predict disapproval,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
privacy, or be used to cause harm. Other factors necessitate this consideration as well—from the pandemic and the Great Reset, to persistent income inequality, to climate change. Technology and people, then, must always be thought of as... View Details
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
Working PapersSuperstars and Underdogs: An Examination of the Long Tail Phenomenon in Video Authors:Anita Elberse and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract The rise of online channels facilitates the distribution of a wide range of products and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
office-but at what cost? In "Sleeping with Your Smartphone," Leslie Perlow reveals how you can disconnect and become more productive in the process. In fact, she shows that you can devote more time to your personal life and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
syndrome (MERS), a coronavirus that causes fever, cough, and shortness of breath. The spread of MERS had been limited since its emergence in Saudi Arabia in 2012, with only about 2,500 total cases globally, but one in three infections... View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
of metrics to describe TV programs and broadcast advertising. Co-Founder and CEO Deb Roy said: "We want to measure audience engagement, not just media consumption." But what was the value of audience engagement? How could it be quantified and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
period. Stock indexes can transform longstanding behavior via nonpecuniary channels. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53030 Machine Learning and Human Capital: Experimental Evidence on Productivity... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
about the causes of regional variations in health care expenditures. Using vignettes from patient and physician surveys linked to fee-for-service Medicare expenditures, this study asks whether patient demand-side factors or physician... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
Steiner, executive vice-president of commercial acceptance, must decide if the situation in Brazil is stable enough to support a significant increase in breeding and biotech spending to develop products specifically designed for the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace