Filter Results:
(374)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (374)
- Faculty Publications (39)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (374)
- Faculty Publications (39)
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
important." Scott Lichtman agrees, pointing out that "to be efficient in this fast-moving era rather requires longer-term investment in skills and strategy adoption by longstanding employees ..." On the other hand, Ryan... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
Manufacturing and information technology these days go together like bread and butter. But it wasn't always so. As Professor David Upton pointed out in a Global Alumni Conference panel titled "E-Commerce and the New Operations,"... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
"gift" some of the value and not charge as much. For innovative products, the thinking gets even more complicated. “Usually when you price, you have reference prices because you have comparable products on the market,” Thomke... View Details
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
ever to come by. Q: What is "hyper-maturity?" A: It takes a period of time before a category reaches the point that we begin to experience it as a blur. When a product category is nascent, it tends to be dominated by a much... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
fewer links in their tweets than men. "Women actually say things, guys give references to other things." But even accounting for these differences, the researchers still saw differences between how men and women are followed,... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
relevant ideas and concerns they have is the focus of this research. Upward voice refers to communications directed to someone higher in the organizational hierarchy with the perceived power or authority to take action on the problem or... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
price of competing products, pose new challenges on translating the demand forecasts into a pricing policy. We develop an algorithm to efficiently solve the subsequent multi-product price optimization that incorporates reference price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- Op-Ed
The Real Duty of the Board of Directors
We routinely hear board directors, CEOs, and CFOs of publicly-listed corporations refer to shareholders as owners of the corporation. Under this thinking, it is natural to conclude that the board’s duty is to its shareholders. Contrary to... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
- Web
Transitions - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
[...]?" Providing Synthesis and Intermediate ClosureUsing a summary of the previous discussion points and themes as part of a transition serves as an effective connection between pastures. The transition can look both backward and forward... View Details
- Profile
Nathalie du Preez
it to see it from other perspectives." That desire for different points of view led Nathalie to the United States, where she fulfilled a business degree at Wharton and later worked for Goldman Sachs. These formative experiences... View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
investments that keep them going.” In fact, companies cut their longer-term investments by 10 to 40 percent—an average of 17 percentage points more than shorter-term investments. In financial terms, that carries the same financial impact... View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
specific searches. [See point on compensation in Financials, below] New to hiring? Practice interviewing candidates with investors or their associates before bringing actual candidates in for the real interview. Resume screening can be an... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
priorities at the beginning of the new century, the participants pointed to a variety of items that resonated in their organizations. Gueldenberg referred to a continuing emphasis on convenience, service,... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
left to round out the team. Then again, there's no point in holding lots of cash with no one worthwhile to spend it on. Conventional negotiation theory doesn't say much about how to craft and execute strategy in such dynamic markets.... View Details
- Web
Systems Change Forum | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
to socially impactful change to policies, practices, or behaviors. Participants used the term systems change to refer to a variety of approaches and solutions to social challenges. At different points during... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
interest to me. Fortunately, I got in." HBS provided the frame of reference that Maddy was lacking. "I have applied quite a lot of what I learned to my career," she says. "For me, the discipline that the case-study methodology teaches has... View Details
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
Nobody understands the power of Twitter better than Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman. In a now-infamous television interview in January after a National Football League playoff game, Sherman briefly ranted against rival Michael Crabtree, View Details
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
managers to "'personally' drive innovation and competitive advantage." Gerald Nanninga placed the blame on "infestation" (parasites that successful organizations attract) and "cannibalization" (fear of damaging existing businesses). Phil... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
The Art of Naming a Start-up
approached the naming process eagerly at the beginning, since as an amateur writer I enjoy picking names for fictional characters and places. But there were rules to follow, as my cofounder pointed out when the three of us began... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
the Times’ revenue had previously come from advertising, in recent years the numbers had flipped so now nearly two-thirds of revenue came from print and digital subscriptions. This, he felt, pointed to a willingness among some people to... View Details