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- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
world of advertising by transforming the way Americans watched television. BCM had developed a technology to make television "clickable," enabling viewers to interact with the content on their television screens. By April 2009, BCM had conducted consumer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
remains a fascinating field for research that has not received much attention outside computer science. We believe that there are great opportunities for research here and we are doing some more work in this area. In particular, we are... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
and the environment while still creating value for their shareholders. How to Become a Sustainable Company Authors: Robert G. Eccles, Kathleen Miller Perkins, and George Serafeim Publication: MIT Sloan Management Review 53, no. 4 (2012) Abstract Using View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
help—those who face most problems interacting in the offline world, or those who generally have little trouble meeting people? Does the Web serve to equalize access to potential relationships, or does it make the playing field even... View Details
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence, Competing on Internet Time, and Judo Strategy. "The theory was to explore interesting topics with interesting companies, and use the field research as a vehicle for more in-depth empirical... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
format and expect the date to be the first field in any electronic purchase order it receives. Before any systems integration can take place, these dissimilarities need to be resolved. There is no magic bullet in the Web services toolkit... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
understand the strategy, and translate it into actions they can take to help the organization succeed. Here is a picture of two employees of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) with their strategy map helping them do their job in the ice View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
an explanation of his firm's capabilities in providing manufacturers with an integrated approach to IT outsourcing, a development in a field where specialization has long been the rule of thumb. With this new model, he explained, clients... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
methods to what has been a field dominated by the quantitatively obsessed. While Underhill's work focuses on what shoppers do, Zaltman's deals with why they do what they do. Both approaches hold myriad insights for manufacturers,... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
adapt over time. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/03/choosing-the-right-customer/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Incorporating Field Data into Archival Research By: Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract—Companies that win in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
that will deliver corporate performance. Finally, I conclude that the field will ultimately require a framework that puts firms at its center. Benefiting from Location: Knowledge Retrieval Authors:Juan Alcácer and Wilbur Chung... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
Intrapersonal Conflict Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between how people anticipate preferences and their subsequent preferences. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
about equally (un)likely. Comparing the career imprints and career paths of people who worked at these two firms shows that those who left Baxter and Abbott to join biotech firms had a differential impact on this new and emerging field of... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
as well as recent articles that help give the reader a sense of where the field is headed and where likely opportunities for future research lie. This article seeks to strike an equilibrium among the variety of perspectives that exist in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
technology is now also used for assigning children to New York City high schools and to Boston schools at all levels. And many professional organizations, and universities and business schools, try to help set the recruiting "rules of engagement" so as to help level... View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207069 PublicationsAmerica the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again Author:Rosabeth M. Kanter Publication:New York: Crown, forthcoming Abstract This book draws on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
the next—take their findings with them, providing the wherewithal for startups to hit the ground running. Finally, he said, knowledge in fields such as IT is no longer primarily within the bailiwick of corporate laboratories;... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
we've increasingly observed another phenomenon: ideas flowing back to the U.S. Take wireless technology in Europe, for example, where the standards are more uniform and advanced than they are here. I'm now advising a one-year field study... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
The analysis is based on field studies in three jurisdictions: Canada, China, and India. Across these jurisdictions, I first describe unique elements of domestic political economies that are shaping IFRS policies. Then, I inductively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
knowledge. Using a multi-method field study across two professional service firms to refine and test the proposed model, I also find that only the use of client-specific expertise (not the expertise of high-status members) enhances... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace