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- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
new world. Typical approaches used by legacy players such as using technology to improve efficiency, encouraging business units to do digital experiments, or launching independent units to spur innovation... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
taken by Kenny starting in 2014 as he sought to reorient the company amidst changes in media, digital, and mobile technologies. Kenny balances promoting new stream digital business growth with managing difficult View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
What is welcome and all too rare? Leaders who care about building great institutions, not just profits. What sets these leaders apart in their practice and outlook? Harvard Business School's Michael Beer in his new book, Higher Ambition:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
thinking. But people aren't mind readers," Conant told a roomful of CEOs during the second Higher-Ambition CEO Leadership Conference, held at Harvard Business School in January. "I had to go out on a limb and talk about my... View Details
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
August 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Study: More Frequent Sales Quotas Help Volume but Hurt Profits By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
The role of government in Africa must be to establish an "investor friendly" environment, according to Obiageli Ezekwesili, a panelist at the Africa Business Conference's debate on "Government and the Enabling... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
literature on political risk in business and economic history by examining both new perspectives (risk encountered by companies domestically, rather than risk for foreign investors) and new settings (emerging markets economies in Latin... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
policyholders, downstream intermediaries, and other actors thus constitutes a balancing act. The context of this case is an underdeveloped market whose reputation has suffered from broker misconduct. In light of the market’s legacy issues... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
significant rise in demand for the legacy technology. These findings offer contributions to research on technology cycles, cognition, and incumbent responses to technological change. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
in political debates, but work to bridge divides among people during the crisis. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond How to Manage Coronavirus Layoffs with Compassion (Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with regulators to create codes of fair competition that reshaped both public and private regulatory power. Rather than viewing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1590245 Cases & Course MaterialsBook Publishing in 2010 Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy BartlettHarvard Business School Note 711-419 Legacy book... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
weight of published management advice, recommends that management teams engage task conflict but avoid relationship conflict. Implicit in this advice is the premise that it is indeed possible to separate the task and relationship aspects of a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
surprise changes to their dependency relationships that are not associated with new functionality; and iii) tightly-coupled components are "harder to augment," in that the mix of new components added in each version is significantly more modular than the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Railways: Building a Permanent Legacy (B)? Aldo Musacchio, Tarun Khanna, and Rachna TahilyaniHarvard Business School Supplement 711-083 Supplement to case 710-008. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
and practice are discussed. Download the revised paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-080.pdf PublicationsShould You Invest in the Long Tail? Author:Anita Elberse Periodical:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, nos.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
To improve any business, managers need to understand how much it costs to produce a profitable product. It seems a simple task, but the process of securing and analyzing the data can be incredibly complex and organizationally taxing. In Time-Driven Activity-Based... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
earnings with a legacy of coal and gas fired power plants against its futuristic vision. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718414-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-009... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
analysis, which I apply to a wealth of data, I show how changes in product, organizational, and community identities associated with a legacy technology can be reconstituted to reconfigure a field. My findings highlight that three... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
outline other factors such as local ethnic and religious heterogeneity, the institutional legacies of colonialism and serfdom, and, especially, the characteristics of the political and economic elite that help explain the low achievement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne