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- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
the Practical Relevance of Research, forthcoming in Production and Operations Management. “This is my soapbox message to academics: be more relevant,” says Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and faculty... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
actually consistent with design principles established by the development team? The case seeks to expand students' view of the product development process. Traditional software development projects begin with the gathering of requirements... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
“Blank” Inside: Branding Ingredients
the quality of what's inside. We need the assurance of the Sunkist brand. A variant on this theme is ingredient branding: putting the brand of an ingredient on the outside of a product to increase its appeal. When is the provider of the... View Details
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
unexpected networking opportunities, generating a tight community of German businesspeople in India. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54465 How Scheduling Can Bias Quality Assessment: Evidence from Food... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
world, the economics were terrific. The business was highly scalable but, in addition, there was a great market for the digital information. So that part of the business looked to be very well-founded. But in the physical world, it was a business of delivery: trucks... View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
bring about much needed improvements in the control of schedules and costs for large defense engineering development and production programs. This study suggests that correcting the shortcomings in defense... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
about how an auction ends. EBay auctions have a firm deadline: When the scheduled end time of the auction is reached, the auction is over. Amazon auctions also have a scheduled end time, but the auction is... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
Bekkers. Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date Knowing how to keep a conversation going can improve your career as well as your social life, according to research by Alison Wood Brooks and colleagues. Why Productivity... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
says Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration. “They can’t rely on data scientists alone.” Experiments have come to have an outsize influence within tech companies from Uber to Zillow, which test everything from new View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), which conducts an annual analysis of available labor data. Presumably, the Dodd-Frank rule, once it's mandated, will make more data available for such analyses. The Security and Exchange Commission has View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
companies do not need a full-fledged ERP system to get most of the benefits. The TDABC system can import data from separate systems, such as the monthly general ledger, a production scheduling system, and a... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
had raised Kittyhawk's annual revenue targets to $100 million within two years of product release. They also set a launch schedule six months shorter than initially planned. Given these new requirements, the... View Details
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
schedules a meeting with three of his reports, whose interpersonal conflicts with one another are causing his business development function to falter. He struggles to know how to handle these conflicts and bring the three into a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
Year’s resolution. To turn a fitness aspiration into a habit, experts often recommend that people adopt rigid exercise routines and rituals, scheduling workouts or sleeping in running clothes, for example. But new research suggests that... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
possibly was another example unfolded. As reader Anna Johnson put it, “When the pressure to meet quarterly performance expectations against best-guess sales targets and a flesh pounding schedule take precedence, it’s not surprising that... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
How They Can Do it Better (29,119) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6665.html Published: April 25, 2011 A CEO's schedule is especially important to a firm's financial success, which raises a few questions: What do they do all day? Can they be... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
have to translate the interface software, or at least the manuals, into local languages. We'd need additional resources in business development and product support to manage all this. Selling ClearCloud in Europe is going to cost a lot... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
rejections personally because their requests were merely a few among the thousands of pieces of mail that Harpo Productions received every week. The experience also taught them the value of teamwork and the necessity of not allowing each... View Details
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
the birth and midlife phases of business products and ideas," Raman observes. "We don't spend enough time thinking about the death or liquidation of businesses. What drew us to this problem is that death, or the process of... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
product portfolio. Maybe we are no longer going to produce assault weapons. Or maybe we will make a really interesting effort into producing smart weapons.” Unique ideas and insights are common on the podcast Harvard Business School After... View Details