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- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
(forthcoming) Abstract We suggest that online dating frequently fails to meet user expectations because people, unlike many commodities available for purchase online, are 'experience goods': Daters wish to screen potential romantic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
large organizations increase as surrogates in meeting the increased needs for a sense of community that many may feel? What new demands will be placed on managers on the front line of "the other war?" What will you, as a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
the points accumulated for a matching profile," says Trichakis. The end result: the allocation process "no longer meets the needs of the patients." So, despite the best efforts of those involved, the current transplant... View Details
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
shape strategy. We excerpt a portion on advice for new CEOs, written with HBS faculty Jay W. Lorsch and Nitin Nohria. 3. Why Don't Managers Think Deeply? Professor Jim Heskett poses this provacative question to HBS Working Knowledge readers. 4. Steve Jobs and Jeff... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results are obtained after controlling for several proxies for earnings and stock return performance suggesting that boards appear to penalize managers for failing to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
focus of negotiators to aspects of the situation that generate helpful insights. Level Two Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its 'Behind the Table' Challenges Author:James K. Sebenius Publication:Negotiation Journal 29, no. 1... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
modify the questions to suit their particular needs, but that didn't meet our research objectives," Deshpandé recalls. “We just hung on for dear life and moved as quickly as we could."—Joshua Margolis Executives who did choose... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
prying into other people's lives. But online enables "a very delicate way for me to pry into your life without really prying," the researcher says. "Harvard undergrads do it all the time. They know all about each other before they View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
agency is also feeling growing pains. Its 9,000 employees and $1.95 billion budget are straining to meet the demands of technological and global change. It has lost key senior managers, and low morale is a growing problem. Can the FDA... View Details
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
examples show that even if today's boards wanted to exercise their governance role over marketing activities, they often wouldn't have the information they need to make sound judgments. Boards need a fundamental understanding of how the company is View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Diversity and Inclusion (D&I), provided a summary of the firm's journey to date and an update on its progress. The message from Fink at the July meeting was clear: the firm needed to do more. This message was also reinforced by the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product, which can be easily stockpiled by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
licenses properties from blockbuster films such as Star Wars and Harry Potter. “It's really easy for them to be nimble and meet demand” LEGO's ambition has at times exceeded its reach. By 2004, the company's overdiversification into theme... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
meetings and repeat frequently that the Internet is overhyped. Form a committee to create a new corporate Internet offering, staff it with people from unrelated areas who are already doing five other things, and don't release them from... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
diamonds in the future and making them into ambassadors of ill will. At a meeting scheduled for November 2015, the De Beers Executive Committee would have to decide whether to end the pilot program, extend it for another year to gather... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
regulators should pursue to meet these ends, and ultimately achieve a more efficient market in small business lending. Doing so will help small businesses focus more of their time doing what they do best: growing their business, creating... View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
two people both requires and enables its participants to stay close to one another, figuratively as well as literally. Only through intimacy of that kind can they achieve a true meeting of minds. In organizational conversation, similarly,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
tools, and six small-group rooms. "The level use of experimental research at HBS has grown beyond what anyone imagined when we first built the CLER lab," says Director of Research Computing Chase Harrison. "We're constantly evaluating how to View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
task teams will want to meet on a more personal basis after the task is complete. They may be looking for people with whom they can share their leadership challenges and get confidential advice. In other cases, colleagues in the same... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
processes and well-treated people can be a natural fit rather than some kind of painful tradeoff." Not For The Shortsighted Ton acknowledges that the model could be difficult to implement for companies focused more on meeting Wall... View Details