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- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
Visiting the doctor can sometimes feel like being slammed down on an assembly line: Make co-pay. Check vitals. Diagnose the problem. Get a prescription. Next! The fee-for-service model of American medicine doesn’t put much value on long doctor’s visits, which aren’t as... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
first, these operations eventually become profitable. The WDC would be a center of research and learning about the impact of business on poverty reduction. Q: In what ways could the World Development Corporation be better than other... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
centralized fulfillment center instead of selling from a large number of decentralized pharmacies, and then encourage those people—essentially by cutting the size of their co-pay—to place their orders by phone, renew their prescriptions... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
to make the $3.5 million Roadside Romeo. The first-of-its-kind animated Hindi movie barely broke even. All told, Hollywood studios invested an estimated $100 million on producing films in India between 2007 and 2009. But box-office View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
including one centered on the acceptance of high-speed Internet cable access by residents of a middle-class Toronto suburb during the past four years. That community, they say, is typical of many throughout the United States. To date,... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
profitably through acquisitions and organically for two decades. In late 2015, Hain faced challenges on several fronts. First, new consumers were interested in these products, and these consumers had characteristics different from those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
advantage in the form of improved profitability by aggressively hiring the excluded group, namely women, in the local managerial labor market. Our results are economically meaningful and realistic in size, in addition to being robust to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
this period, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) delivered some important technologies for the corporation. One of the most critical inventions was laser printing for Xerox's printers and copiers, an effort that led to new Xerox... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
newspapers and magazines. All of the stories centered on its star-studded lineup on the firm's groundbreaking mission. A story in the Boston Globe started with the headline, "Venture Enterprise of Unusual Management," and... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
profits and managerial problems in the United States between the 1950s and the 1980s. It seemed important to ascertain whether this was a problem unique to one firm, or part of a more general pattern. The upshot was a conference organised... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
demand information that the dealer obtains through the initial assessment and subsequent learning in the selling process. With the dealer's average net profit per car in the estimation sample being around $1150, the initial assessment is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
understanding what they want. And there's the rub. Newspapers have historically not been centered around this. Instead, their natural center of gravity—and one that served it in good stead for a long... View Details
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
in NHW, raised profit margins, continued strong growth, and differentiated the firm. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311119-PDF-ENG Procter & Gamble: Marketing Capabilities Rebecca M. Henderson and Ryan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
should allocate its resources over the next year in order to become profitable and ensure future growth. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816006-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-022 The Ullens View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
countries generally lack a solid technology base of trained scientists and world-class research universities. 2. Companies in developing countries must manage to eke out a profit while serving customers with low disposable income; per... View Details
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
were able to navigate the structures of regulation during this stage. As an industry peaks and begins to decline, leaders take center stage. Leaders are change agents who see opportunities and promise where others see only defeat. That... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules and is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
business community was swift and dramatic. Deutsche Bank froze the creation of 250 jobs in Cary. More than 100 business leaders, many from well-known companies, signed a letter to Gov. McCrory opposing the new state law. PayPal cancelled plans to create 400 jobs in a... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
rules tend to be surprisingly nebulous, especially considering the precise technical specifications of the patents at hand. In part because of the potential profits at stake, SEPs have been at the center of... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
serves as chairman of the consultancy TruePoint Partners and of its educational and research institute, the TruePoint Center for Higher Ambition Leadership. In the e-mail interview that follows, Beer talks about the book and what boards... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace