Fundamentals - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

experience in the for-profit sector? Mario Morino: My background was in the IT industry, working in systems management, which is fundamentally about tracking the performance and integrity of large computing platforms. What I experienced... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

officials used its science capabilities to develop components for solar panels and are now working on materials for cars that make them safer and more efficient. "Dow is using its science background to address fundamental issues and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

12 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 12

reciprocity measured after surprising an employee with a raise is fundamentally different from that posited to explain persistent above-market wages. Download working paper: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/Papers%20on%20RIS/oDesk.pdf Cases... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

from a global recession and financial shock, it would be naive to assume a return to business as usual. All companies need to reexamine the fundamental links between their espoused strategic goals and the nitty-gritty of field... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

just two suppliers, while Great Britain has five suppliers to reduce the risk of supply disruptions. While fear of lawsuits has played a role, the fundamental problem is that the economics of vaccine production are unattractive for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

brand’s website. But the more time passed, the greater were the discrepancies between what the marketing, commercial (sales), and retail divisions of the company envisioned as an ideal ecommerce-enabled Technos website. What should be the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

therapies for a given disease and promised a number of efficiency improvements. They also used statistical techniques to allow more patients access to promising therapies. As such, they had the potential to fundamentally change the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Mar 2016
First Look

March 15, 2016

approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet... View Details

08 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

limited intermediation, and corporate opportunism. Investor tastes, when combined with imperfectly competitive intermediaries, lead prices and interest rates to deviate from fundamental values. Opportunistic firms respond by issuing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

twentieth century, orthodox in the middle, and heretical again at the end? The more I thought about the question, the more I realized that its answer must be fundamental to our understanding of the history of international capitalism. I... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online

Details Concepts Owned Media Earned Media Influencer Marketing Featured Exercises Explore the unique advantages of owned media Test your knowledge of content strategy fundamentals Apply methods for effectively utilizing earned media Draw... View Details

14 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

Creating an ethics chatbot requires an investment of resources and technical capabilities that is likely to be beyond most firms’ capabilities. However, Soltes’ lab at Harvard Business School was able to create a functioning ethics chatbot in less than three months... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

The resourcefulness with which companies dealt with these staffing challenges could be an area of deeper research, Giacomin says, and has ongoing relevance in today’s tight labor market. The internment experience also fundamentally... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

27 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?

“Attacking this question is fundamentally important for both the science and the practice of creativity,” she writes. “It seems increasingly likely that products and services resulting from the creative behavior of ordinary individuals... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

many carriers may have to develop a fundamentally different business model—the commercial segment model is not viable for the public exchanges.” INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS From consumers: Consumers need to learn how to make smarter choices... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

15 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 15

(Search-Based Peers or SBPs) are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In direct tests, SBPs dominate GICS6 industry peers in explaining cross-sectional variations in base firms' out-of-sample (a) stock returns, (b) valuation... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Managing Global Supply Chains There are fundamental differences between supply chains and global supply chains, say authors Ananth Raman and Noel Watson, both HBS professors. "The increasing globalization of supply chains makes it... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

integrated back in. "But to try to take your core business, if your market's going through a fundamental shift, and migrate it on the fly without separating it out is a very big challenge." Incentive structure is a big issue for... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

28 May 2019
News

Cure All

management training to the people who are actually going to implement that change. It requires a fundamentally different approach in the day-to-day work, which is something the sector needs badly. View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2005
News

Predictable Surprises

here. The most obvious answer is that we must fundamentally change the system. The predictable surprise that helps create all the other predictable surprises is the destructive force of special-interest groups in this country. I am a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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