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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
outline a consumer-oriented research agenda that will provide individuals with good advice about core purchase decisions. My anecdotal experience is that many homebuyers search until they fall in love with one house, negotiate only for... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- Web
European and UK Personal Data Collection Disclosure | HBS Online
Additional Privacy Disclosures 1. Introduction These Additional Privacy Disclosures (“Disclosures”) provide information on collection and use of personal data about individuals located in a Relevant Region (as defined below) and... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
we had devised this approach then. The legacy information systems at the time could not supply the TDABC model with the detailed information on individual transactional and their special characteristics. Now, with most companies having... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
different countries. Klump's experience is a reminder of just how complicated, on a personal level, globalization and managing across cultures can be. On the one hand, the world seems small and interconnected, thanks to high-speed... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- Web
2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
The Courage of our Convictions The Courage of our Convictions 04–05 APR 2019 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Kira Banks Dr. Kira Banks has been working to support individuals and groups to understand themselves, others and systems of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
design "programs" or sequences of projects over time in order that learning is maximized. Most past research on innovation has focused on the management of individual projects. As a result, we know a lot about topics such as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
Life Green Day Related Links What businesses can do to make a difference Takeaways: Preparing for the population boom Case study: Slum for sale Conference report: Investing in Cities of the 21st Century Making a View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
interviews with executives and officials around the globe, Vietor provides concentrated examinations of different approaches to government facilitation of development. Individual chapters focus on the unique... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
Sparks" to develop the brand and a plan to change how employees experienced HCL. The group started with an icon, Thambi, which means "brother" in Tamil, symbolizing "the importance of the individual and the value of the collective" at... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
faculty across a wide spectrum of disciplines including business history, entrepreneurship, finance, and organizational behavior have made creativity and innovation primary subjects of focus. What is surprising is just how teachable they have found innovation to be. On... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
unionization In setting out to explain the differences in unionization rates by location, the researchers noticed that state-to-state union levels differed before and after the 1930s. Whether a state had a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
at talent development and, in particular, the misalignment between what employers are looking for, what individuals are looking for, and what institutions often are producing. So to me, working at Strada has really represented an... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
potential explanations or collapse many mechanisms altogether. We discuss the empirical difficulties that arise in distinguishing between different mechanisms as well as some promising approaches for making progress in doing so. We also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
Schumpeter is remembered for the notion that the individual entrepreneur, engaging in a kind of "creative destruction" that continually revolutionizes and revitalizes the economic structure, is the essence of capitalism. Conceived as an... View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
happen pre-competition, meaning everyone would be starting on a level playing field when eventually competing in the market. Wouldn’t such collaborations throw a monkey wrench into free-market capitalist competition? Serafeim says no, that collaboration is View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
as Tom Nicholas suggests in a recent survey of the literature, while many scholars have documented the link between innovation and economic growth, a less well understood question is, "What drives innovation in the first place?" Historical work on... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
While these general factors might help a company decide in which country to invest its production, of course different factories will have different track records—so it’s important to look at View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
so different from those found in other countries. Sean Silverthorne: Why has this issue on taxing foreign profit become so central? Mihir Desai: I think there are several reasons for these developments. First, the integrated, global... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
taught me how to serve citizens with firm friendliness and safely lead a group with very different skill levels in unfriendly or even hostile environments.” Important read: “I fell in love with telco and media as a consultant at McKinsey.... View Details
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
county’s “Watershed Watch Program” serves all of the County’s 7th graders. The robust effort covers “nine curriculum modules that include watershed mapping, looking at types of land use, getting out on the creek at two different points,... View Details