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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
client-centric approach. It intensified virtual interactions with customers, merged sales and customer service, and boosted integration of all databases, which had been spread across functions, into a single customer resource management... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
colleagues David R. Clough, Tommy Pan Fang, and Balagopal Vissa, Wu recently conducted a review to examine how the entrepreneurial community thinks about acquiring resources, publishing their work in the paper, Turning Lead Into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
taxpayers. The result can sometimes be a less empowered, more quiescent patient population. Interestingly, many developing countries operate more like the United States. Lacking the resources to fund meaningful national health programs,... View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
Specifically, we examine the impact of the annual July turnover of residents in American teaching hospitals on levels of resource utilization and quality relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. We find that, despite the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Organization Science Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intra-Firm Mobility and Access to Resources By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj Abstract—Prior research has established a relation between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
community resource because it nourished the livestock that provided a foundation for the local agricultural economy. If the commons fell into disrepair—either through overuse or neglect—everyone suffered. Although taking care of the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
team. And these findings hold value in the world of corporate hiring, as well. In 1996, Jeff Borland and Jeanette Ngaire Lye studied data on Australian football coaches to investigate whether a good match plays a role in a coach’s View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
(on Technology & Innovation and Management Research Methodology), the 14-volume encyclopedia now offers users a fully searchable online resource linked to the wider literature and to an associated database of handbooks and journals in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51740 Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Damien Geradin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
Categories on Resource Allocations (revised) Authors:Stephen M. Garcia, Max H. Bazerman, Shirli Kopelman, and Dale T. Miller Abstract This paper explores the influence of social categories on the perceived trade-off between relatively bad... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
have always been highly mobile, with more than 40 million leaving their jobs voluntarily in recent years. That’s roughly twice as many as are fired or leave involuntarily. It’s testimony to a US economy that produces a remarkable number of job opportunities and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
its infrastructure for societal uses, or whether to exploit a commercial opportunity related to launching small, handheld cubesats. The case explores the basis for ISRO’s cost advantage vis-à-vis western entities, as well as its resource... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
of risk, and the apparent difficulty of identifying minorities as high-potential each constitute major hurdles to the career mobility of minority managers," they write. "Overcoming them is possible, but it places the equivalent... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
implementation of radical routines and resource configuration. Structural arrangements, pre-set change routines, and existing decisional priorities are insufficient to fashion relevant capabilities into new core activities. Ad-hoc problem... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
Journal of Law & Economics Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India By: Alfaro, Laura, and Anusha Chari Abstract—This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm size dynamics and reallocation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
A key understudied driver is social network utilization by academic researchers. In this paper, we examine how activating one’s social network can contribute to the impact of academic research and what factors lead researchers to utilize their social network. We treat... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
pointing to the mobile shift-swapping app used by employees of clothing retailer The Gap. The company piloted the app in its Old Navy stores and expanded it to all brands in 2018. The app “creates value,” says Oberholzer-Gee, by helping... View Details
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
2016 Echoing Green Fellow Christine Su is co-founder and CEO of PastureMap. The for-profit software company helps sustainable ranchers record their grazing practices on mobile devices. (Photo courtesy of Echoing Green.) A division of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
bridges, water, power and more? It’s not because they don’t aspire to. It’s because they lack the money and the expertise (in African cities) or because they can’t get to political consensus (in the United States)—or because there are other priorities for limited View Details