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- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
PublicationsOne-Switch Conditions for Multiattribute Utility Functions Authors:Abbas, Ali E., and David E. Bell Publication:Operations Research Abstract We introduce a variety of new independence conditions View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which was created by the passage of the 1906 Federal Food and Drugs Act, regulates companies and industries accounting for one-quarter of all consumer spending, roughly $1.5 trillion worth of... View Details
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
notice. Nordstrom's "Fashion Rewards" program is another tool. The program offers customers who make purchases on a store-branded card significant benefits: When the "rewards points" a customer accrues for each dollar... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
the board take into account? Bagley: The Business Roundtable is to be commended for its clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the outflow of funds from... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
so detailed an investigation as would be necessary I would have to have a whole research staff working for me." To another friend, he wrote, "I am still a slave to my manuscript and for instance... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
interest rates have fallen to historic lows, increasing the funding that companies must set apart to make up for the lower yield on the assets already in place. "Companies have had to increase their... View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
Many business leaders are mystified about how to reach potential customers on social networks such as Facebook. HBS professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski provides a fresh look into the interpersonal dynamics of these sites and offers guidance... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
in a Chaotic World By: Wheeler, Michael Abstract—A member of the world-renowned Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School introduces the powerful next-generation approach to negotiation. For many years, two approaches to negotiation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
you need to open your eyes and truly notice for the first time—and for the rest of your life. The book analyzes a bevy of real-world examples, ranging from Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme to problematic... View Details
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
The world as we know it is about to change in many ways thanks to a "broadband explosion"—the coming together of real-time communication and rich media. Professors Robert Austin and Stephen Bradley discuss their new book by that title and the implications... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
effects. Overall, the analysis suggests that the global standardization hypothesis has considerably less momentum than the juggernaut that it is sometimes portrayed as. Q: You have written that customer preferences for globally... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
Complex trends in globalization, demographic shifts, and new technologies are raising urgent challenges for managers on an everyday level. Because of the number of companies undergoing digital transformation, managers need to navigate an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
also demonstrated a base of support in their cities for system-wide change. We discussed the program in this e-mail Q &A with Childress and Allen Grossman, who is the HBS faculty chair for the program.... View Details
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
advertising; if you want to reach a narrow audience, you do niche advertising. But these marketers realized the best way to create cachet for a young audience was to make it inaccessible and let the kids... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
SUMMING UP Do We Need Business School Courses On Inclusion and ‘Voice’? Responses to this month’s column suggest that the issue it raised—recruitment of minority talent into business careers—was somewhat narrow and off-target. Kristin Wolfe, View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
"reinvent the phone." Yet both the device and the mobile service provided by AT&T involved limitations that could hinder the long-term prospects for the iPhone. At the same time, handset makers and other mobile carriers had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
not be taken into account or even noticed-as a strategy for managing diversity and intergroup relations. Despite research demonstrating that race is perceived automatically (and thus, the seeming improbability of actual colorblindness),... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
Here's a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed "too big to fail," hasn't it implicitly guaranteed similar largesse for all such... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
Toyota, for instance, groups countries by existing and expected free trade areas. At other times, however, such definitions will yield regions that aren't geographically compact. After making its first... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
"gap-filling" idea comes in--the government can dissuade firms from issuing short-term debt by simply making it less attractive to do so. It can accomplish this by issuing more short-term debt (T-bills), raising the yields on... View Details