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- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
If customers were unhappy, they reasoned, the product should be changed. Militant demands displaced an environment of mutual respect and shared learning. Needless to say, the practice of telling students they were customers was quickly... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
since women control or influence a lion’s share of household buying decisions. That includes cars, vacations, electronics, health care, and more. We also see a lot in the media about work-life balance and the difficulties working mothers... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
new Emerging Leaders edition of True North, which includes Foster's story as an example of the importance of crucible experiences in defining leaders. And in this episode of Skydeck Foster and George share the lessons of their own... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
Rica benefited from biodiversity and a pleasant climate, the country’s preeminence in ecotourism requires more than a natural resource endowment explanation. While previous literature has emphasized the efforts of the government and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
and the established literatures on resource allocation and incumbent spin-outs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51520 Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
pattern common to important narratives around the world. A supporting website facilitates sharing of teaching materials and experiences by faculty using the case series. We report results from using this curriculum with undergraduate and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
resources is hard to do," Childress continues. "There isn't a single, focused goal, such as net income or earnings per share. However, those very challenges — working on the multifaceted issues that face nonprofits, in a less well-defined... View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
Khaire Publication: Business History Review (forthcoming) Abstract Identity is an important resource for firms, since it is a critical precursor of an important strategic resource—legitimacy. However, identities of new firms in new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
relationships through its "Two-in-a-box" (TIB) model. This model is based on having two people share complete responsibility for the client. In the U.S. or Europe, the "on site" person, along with his or her... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
the most well-known New York City nonprofits. Will Weiss, the executive director, has witnessed his share of chaos during four years at Big Apple. After a slight resurgence following the precipitous drop in ticket sales during the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
interest rates, money funds change their product offerings by investing in riskier asset classes, are more likely to exit the market, and reduce the fees they charge their investors. The consequence of fund closures resulting from interest rate policy is the relocation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
education. There are still schools in America where teachers have to buy supplies for the children and where children share books. People have to be willing to see that public education is a valuable investment for the future. It doesn't... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
between synchronicity and shared ownership and equity ties, synchronicity is more strongly correlated with inter-locking directorates. The presence of shared directors is associated with either reduced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
Arkansas. As I worked on Giants of Enterprise, I found to my surprise that my subjects all shared a number of traits, and these became the key lessons of the book. For instance, someone once said, "If you don't stand for something,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
poor financial markets, b) increases in the share of FDI or the relative productivity of the foreign firm leads to higher additional growth in financially developed economies compared to those observed in financially under-developed ones,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
markets, where they were losing market share to the likes of Apple and Samsung, or defend its market leadership in the low-margin, high-volume emerging markets. This case poses the following questions: Should Nokia stay the course,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
occupancy, providing a "spillover" effect. We find that the effects of inpatient workload on LOS spillover across patient types, which we theorize results from most inpatients, regardless of type, utilizing the same shared View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609050 NEC Electronics Harvard Business School Case 209-001 Why do shares in NEC Electronics, a publicly listed subsidiary of Japan conglomerate NEC, trade at a discount to their fundamental value? Can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
patent applications in 1976 to 16% in 2008. This is partly driven by the increase in the prevalence of information and communication technology; however, even for patents unrelated to information and communication technology, we see a disproportionate increase in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
provided to customers as a consequence of reduced marginal costs for a task. We find that an increase in physicians' capacity for ordering ultrasounds (U/S) resulted in an 11.5 percentage point increase in the probability of an U/S being ordered, confirming that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne