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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
create high-tech products essential for future prosperity is on the decline, argue Gary Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih. They won the prestigious... View Details
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
drive disruption—customers do. A recent book argues that successful disruptors spot and serve emerging customer needs faster than larger competitors. How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.comBook retailers were among... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
Hal Gregersen of INSEAD, for “The Innovator’s DNA” in the December 2009 issue. In their article, Pisano and Shih argue against U.S. companies’ decision to outsource manufacturing in the mistaken belief that American manufacturing holds no... View Details
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
data-id=_/OyGeuXvza1mT37tv8yo5][/div] One way to do that may be to specifically tailor policies by discipline, rather than typical “generic policies for all genders, and for all situations,” Lakhani notes. “Our paper would argue that you... View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
monetary value. He cites, as an example, the fact that 140,000 Kodak employees were replaced in large part by startups like Instagram (an Internet-based distributor of photos) a company with just 13 employees that was purchased last year by Facebook for $1 billion.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
What's next for Web services? In his case summary "Will Web Services Really Transform Collaboration?" published in the Winter 2005 edition of MIT Sloan Management Review, HBS associate professor Andrew P. McAfee argues that the... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
quite similar. Getting to Yes argues for "enlightened self-interest," that is, accounting for long-term reputational and relational costs. Regarding people as individual value-maximizers is a valid point of view, but it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
customers, an explicit customer value proposition, the critical internal processes for creating and delivering the value proposition, and aligned human resources, information technology, and organization culture. Porter argues that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
dysfunctional health care system into one in which value-based competition leads to better health and greater efficiency. They argue for fundamental changes in how we think about heath care and offer specific guidance to health care... View Details
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
records and other, unconventional, records are being used by one speaker to uncover the scale of their activities, and argue that basically China already had an entrepreneurial class ready and waiting when Deng began opening China.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
http://www.people.hbs.edu/liyer/BCCI_JEBO_Final_Sept2013.pdf August 2013 Contemporary Accounting Research The Role of Performance Measures in the Intertemporal Decisions of Business Unit Managers By: Bouwens, Jan, Margaret A. Abernethy, and Laurence van Lent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
we identify core insights about how firms compete against one another in established markets. Based on our evaluation, we argue that a promising research opportunity for strategy lies in exploring how firms strategically interact in new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
academic studies on the periphery of HRM are beginning to adopt such a view. We argue that the HRM studies so far have given us much valuable learning but that the subject has now reached a point where we need to take a wider, more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
committing to an approach that may need to fundamentally change—something that is harder to accomplish at scale. That said, the pursuit of coveted "network effects," with winner-take-all rewards to the dominant platform and a high number of users, View Details
- 23 Jul 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action
The Office of Strategy Management Many organizations suffer a disconnect between strategy formulation and its execution. The answer? HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan and colleague Andrew Pateman argue for the creation of a new corporate... View Details
- Profile
Viktor Puzakov
his interest in general management and his desire to be prepared to manage internationally, HBS “was the only school I applied to.” The experience has once again encouraged him to dig deeper. “Engineers are not encouraged to express ideas,” Viktor says. “But to be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
with a free market, and replacing it with a government-owned or government-controlled airline industry. Although Emirates has done an extremely good job when it comes to customer service, I would argue that the primary reason for its... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
When we talk about a minimum wage increase, what are we really talking about? The US federal minimum wage is not very high—it’s much lower in real terms than it has been for much of the last several decades—and it’s hard to argue that a... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
existing teams improve or adapt. Second, some have argued that teams play a crucial role in organizational learning. These interests have produced a growing and heterogeneous literature. Empirical studies of learning by small groups or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
at length about the The Pay Problem posed by executive compensation in a May/June 2010 article in Harvard Magazine. There we argued that evidence of the link between executive compensation and company performance is not clear. We noted,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner