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- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
it has with education and health care, using its influence, creativity, and resources to help address the issue. Decent, affordable, and stable housing is a basic human necessity; it is also a prerequisite for maintaining a productive national work force. The View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
more vehicles than they can sell and—unable to make money from new cars—turn to service and trade-ins to eke out margins. And at the bottom of the chain are customers trapped in high-pressure negotiations for a car that isn't the exact... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing of a President
Marketing of a President. Barack Obama's campaign is a case study in marketing excellence. True, it was always going to be a Democratic year. An unpopular war, an incumbent Republican president with rock bottom approval ratings, and many... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
conditions. Q: Some businesses assert that by "doing good" they are improving the bottom line through positive public relations. Does the research support this assertion? Are there concrete... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
Whereas the for-profit capital markets provide transparent objective criteria for making early- and later-stage investment decisions, balance risks with return, and create a "performance-driving cycle" by rewarding improvements in the top and View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
frequently the case in Latin America, such a license should not be taken for granted, especially when collection of tolls appears to be a rather unpopular means of funding, as revealed from several of our interviews.6 Another example along these View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
structures. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916415-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-022 DBL Partners: Double Bottom Line Venture Capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
for contracts in developing countries where the rule of law isn't as well enforced. In both anecdotal and empirical research, however, Healy has found that corruption may not be as necessary as it is perceived to be. In fact, at the end of the day, bribes may hurt a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
its new product, the mainframe computer, to capture close to 80 percent of the world's markets. On the basis of the continuing learning and high financial returns, IBM developed its System 360, which in terms of prices charged and performance expected was a full View Details
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
of the rankings in a year before its parent company was acquired but ranked toward the bottom post-merger, the merger would seem to have a negative effect on quality. To that end, Sheen enlisted a team of research assistants to chart... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
why some organizations are more successful than others, why organization size can matter, why decentralization and diversity works, and why lines of communication that enable members at all levels of an organization to make their views... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
received. I think the move toward integrating spirituality and work is also fundamentally about how to bring more love into our lives." That may be a bottom line worth meditating on. View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
AT&T joined Coca-Cola as an announced partner, and live testing of UPromise's service began. The company still confronted the formidable difficulties of putting an extremely complex business on line and enrolling consumers through its... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
reached their limits; third, some products affecting the health and rights of the people as well as the related entities' behavior are challenging the legal and moral bottom line. These three aspects are required to establish a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
impact in the economy, and in line with previous findings by Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo and David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson and Jae Song. Both shocks significantly reduced the demand for manufacturing workers in areas... View Details
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
felt that the lines are not finely drawn. As she put it: "Men and women are variations on a theme, not opposites . It is possible, and I think likely, that the male-dominated business world selects as leaders women who demonstrate... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
like in the case of email. But sometimes it's substantial, where companies are sending high-gloss brochures." Bottom Line The new method certainly isn't perfect; Gupta says he actually saw more prediction... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
worker-management culture. However, the company was best known for its compensation system, paying its workers on a piecework basis, coupled with bonuses based on company revenues. Although this often resulted in average annual pay for Lincoln workers that was more... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
assistant professor of strategy at Harvard Business School. “If a CEO can trust his senior managers, he will be more willing to decentralize decision-making” "The bottom line is that whoever is in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz) expecting a monetary return and philanthropists (such as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan) hoping for a social one. "There are more and more companies seeking this kind of View Details