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29 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 29

Blackstone Group had conducted a roll-up of theme parks and attractions business in Europe. It was considering how to generate liquidity for its investors. Blackstone entered the theme parks and attractions... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2004
What Do You Think?

Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?

especially true if groupthink may in some ways be a means to a worthy end. In Moses' case, he would brook no contrary ideas in amassing the power needed to fight bureaucracy and red tape while he built parks and bridges that were the envy... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Jun 2000
What Do You Think?

What’s Happening to Our Patience?

at managing waiting, having long since concluded that guests to its theme parks spend far more time waiting than participating in various activities. Guests are willing to wait longer when they are diverted or entertained, when they know... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808107 Parks Capital-Investment in US Retail, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 208-104 Parks Capital acquired a Children's Apparel... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2019
Article

Ridesharing with Driver Location Preferences

By: Duncan Rheingans-Yoo, Scott Duke Kominers, Hongyao Ma and David C. Parkes

We study revenue-optimal pricing and driver compensation in ridesharing platforms when drivers have heterogeneous preferences over locations. If a platform ignores drivers' location preferences, it may make inefficient trip dispatches; moreover, drivers may strategize... View Details

Keywords: Ridesharing; Pricing; Compensation and Benefits; Geographic Location; Market Design; Mathematical Methods

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24 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

Partners and Great Wolf Resorts: Buying from a Highly Regarded Competitor The case examines the March 2015 Centerbridge Partners investment decision regarding whether to acquire Great Wolf Resorts, a North American family-oriented indoor water View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

had died while she was interned. And as it happens I can see the masts of Hanslope Park from where I sit here in calm rural Buckinghamshire on our election day. It's great that Ms. Elkins is teaching at HBS, to be reminded that the School... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

parks his Fiesta next to the independent venture capitalists' Ferraris, the temptation to go elsewhere becomes too great." In other words, companies who create internal venture teams to fuel their research and development must not... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

04 Feb 2015
What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

to several of the responses. As Carl X. Parks put it, "Organizations can utilize tools from Google's best practices to enhance or redevelop their own (where applicable). But as a whole, this may not always be directly transferable to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

communal, but rather personal and private. “One woman wrote about gathering all the pictures of her and her ex-boyfriend, taking them to the park were they met, and tearing them up,” Norton recalled in an interview with Working Knowledge.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Fixing Price Tag Confusion

can firms do to prevent it? A: When you go buy a toy at the store, the only cost that stands out is the price you pay for the toy, not the coins you put in the parking meter near the store's window. If you buy toys online, you might wind... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

not have to travel far to make deals, change jobs, or find professional partners. John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins is fond of saying that the Valley is a place where you can change your job without changing your parking spot. Shared values... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

The buildings and the people need to be close together. This saves time, fuel, water and pollution. There is bad density of course but good density can be varied, and green, and fulfilling, and efficient. Think Central Park in New York or... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

09 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

How to Revive Health-Care Innovation

telecommunications did. Target started by selling things like paint, hardware, and simple kitchen supplies, not designer clothing. JCB transformed the digging of big holes not by aspiring to use hydraulics technology to excavate massive underground View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. M.D. & Jason Hwang; Health

01 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

Fernando de la Rua, the President of Argentina noted, "This is an historic day," about the opening of the School's new Latin America Research Center in Buenos Aires. Speaking as guest of honor at the Center's inaugural dinner on August 3rd at the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad

better by snatching a burger from his mouth and kicking him under the dinner table when he orders fries. Sitting on a park bench, the couple agree that drinking Pepsi MAX is OK—until a pretty jogger waves at the husband. The wife throws... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

12 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

where you sometimes see more camel and donkey carts (now there's green energy!) than autos parked outside. India's 300-million-strong middle class is hungering for consumer goods and decent homes. Despite the lack of infrastructure, this... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate

15 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

rural parts of the country. It provides workers with more highly trained supervisors, pays them a living wage, and coordinates with the existing health care system, mostly in urban areas. “In retail mall parking lots, you could imagine a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

July–September 2023
Article

A Systematic Review of Respect Between Acute Care Nurses and Physicians

By: Derrick P. Bransby, Anna T. Mayo, Matthew A. Cronin, Katie Park and Christina Yuan

Background: Interprofessional collaboration between nurses and physicians has become an essential part of patient care, which, when lacking, can lead to well-known challenges. One possible explanation for ineffective nurse–physician collaboration is a lack of... View Details

Keywords: Relationships; Status and Position; Cooperation; Attitudes; Behavior; Outcome or Result; Health Industry