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- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
approach was not a universal panacea to competing in the global economy." Porter went on to suggest that even the profitable Japan had serious limitations. "Total quality management, lifetime employment, close relationships with... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
serves as chairman of the consultancy TruePoint Partners and of its educational and research institute, the TruePoint Center for Higher Ambition Leadership. In the e-mail interview that follows, Beer talks about the book and what boards... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
profits are tight." Alliances can take many different forms. Some, such as the arrangement between the Bidwell Training Center and the Bayer Corporation, come to involve multiple partners in an effort... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
companies doing this despite a lack of clear financial gain? Our approach to these phenomena centers on understanding why the majority of corporations' social activity is focused on their headquarters' community. Our main advancement over... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
such a way that talent is developed along with the business. Publisher's link: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0085 August 2013 International Journal of Industrial Organization Information and Two-Sided Platform View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
by tax revenues, which collected nominal fees for patent applications, into one funded by the fees it collects. Indeed, the patent office has become a profit center for the government, collecting more in... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
center of business education and perhaps in management itself. Publisher's site: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8463.html Market Reactions to Export Subsidies Authors:Mihir A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr. Periodical:Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
vendors like IBM and Oracle on the open source community. Why are proprietary firms diving into open source? The answer (it's good for business) is hardly shocking. But the line from investing in OSS to profiting from a product is not as... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
PublicationsForward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance Authors:Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric Belsky, eds. Publication:Brookings Institution Press and Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, 2011 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
domestic savings, has no effect on the financial account, and leads to unaccounted capital flight. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBrigham and Women's Hospital: Shapiro Cardiovascular View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
Cisneros, Jack F. Kemp, Kent W. Colton, and Nicolas P. Retsinas Publication:Brookings Institution Press and Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, 2007 Abstract In Our Communities, Our Homes: Pathways to Housing and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
than many other of Microsoft’s customers. Others gave more weight to moral considerations, especially in view of Nadella’s stated mission, “to put empathy at the center of everything I pursue ” Only a few, however, put themselves in... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
our sample). August 2013 Marketing Letters To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts By: Edelman, Benjamin, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We examine the profitability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
breakthrough technology. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606114 Adrian Ivinson at the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair Harvard Business School Case 406-111 Adrian Ivinson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
service quality in the past. Furthermore, we show that it is the high quality incumbent's most profitable customers who are the most attracted by superior quality alternatives. Our results appear to have long-run implications whereby... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
that helps businesses profit from making their buildings carbon neutral. (Not to put too fine a point on it, Teach For America was founded by a woman, and Carbon Lighthouse by two men.) The researchers then developed a five-point... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
Visiting the doctor can sometimes feel like being slammed down on an assembly line: Make co-pay. Check vitals. Diagnose the problem. Get a prescription. Next! The fee-for-service model of American medicine doesn’t put much value on long doctor’s visits, which aren’t as... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
communities) and the moderating effects of team leader experience. We test our moderated mediation model in a sample of 121 teams that filed patents in a Fortune 50 company’s India R&D center between 2005 and 2015 using proprietary... View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
of rapid profit improvement. The question facing CEO Thomas J. Wilson was how to maintain the momentum. This case tracks the evolution of Allstate's strategy over 20 years, examining the logic behind the strategic changes, and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
capacity to fulfill the high volume of orders is going to be challenging for many retailers and third-party logistics companies. Some companies like Walmart are adding pop-up centers for online orders inside the distribution View Details