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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
that restructuring addresses is very large—in the billions of dollars possibly. My research at companies suggests there are three primary motivations for restructuring. The first is the need to address poor financial performance. Here,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
bottom two rungs, where participants opted for the riskier option more often. More Research Needed So far, these are among the first experiments that have even touched on the possible connections between inequality and decision-making.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
would call near the frontier of human experience. Ordinarily I'd say near the frontier of business experience, but creative collaboration is very much relevant to business and the field of innovation." Austin is writing a book—the... View Details
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
ago. Or the first Newton, Tang, or Roomba. Everyone knows and understands a better mousetrap when they see one—no selling skills really required. But a 3-D printer? Why would I want that? How much does it cost to maintain? What’s wrong... View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
provider organizations to bring knowledge published in the medical and nursing literatures to bear on individual patients by selecting the right therapies and the right way of implementing those therapies: a... View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
objectives and plans. While you're striving to influence their behavior, they're just as determined to shape your decisions to their advantage. According to Warfighting, appreciating this dynamic interplay between opposing human wills is... View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
What happens to a country's economy when its government is politically unstable, such as has been the case historically in Mexico? Can business get done under a strong-arm dictatorship, or when a government is too weak to protect the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
potential is offered my outstanding operations. Federal Express and L. L. Bean are superb examples of this. Finally, the operations landscape, like everything else, is being revolutionized by information technology (IT) and the Internet. EE: When was the BCAO course... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
undercutting an era of new opportunity for American workers that I call Work 3.0. Work 1.0 existed through roughly the first half of the twentieth century. Almost any worker who wasn’t self-employed was a company’s employee. Work 2.0, our... View Details
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
huge motivation to try something like this." Amazon is not the first to try launching its own shopping holiday. Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba manufactured its own event in 2009 with "Singles Day," which takes place on... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
After Donald Trump won the US presidency in 2016, many Americans who hadn’t voted for him wondered: What exactly motivated so many other voters to choose him? It was a question right in the research wheelhouse of Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
through a pretty harrowing experience. —Joshua Coval "We almost didn't run the first simulation because we figured everyone would easily see ahead to what would happen and that there'd be no trading at all," says Coval.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
results versus long-term capabilities. The first four chapters try to help the reader understand that managers are playing a very delicate balancing act. And perhaps the most fundamental tension is the one between profit, growth, and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
yourself,” says Arthur C. Brooks, Arthur C. Patterson Faculty Fellow. “You're not going to be a good entrepreneur unless you see that your life is your enterprise; your life is your startup.” Here’s what Brooks and four other HBS experts recommend: Put on your own... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 12 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards
world is the very core of nonprofit governance and management. It is for this reason this book starts with a detailed discussion of mission and how it grows. Right behind this are the two major intertwined strategic themes that the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
restaurateur in Japan, Aoki eventually opened his own four-table unit in Manhattan in 1964 and called it Benihana (after a Japanese flower), the name of his father's first establishment. Watching Americans dine out, Aoki had concluded... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
innovation by creating uncertainty and convince risk-averse companies to pull back on R&D. When a bicyclist was killed by an Uber autonomous car in Arizona in 2018, for example, the company suspended the program—even though the crash was later judged to be View Details
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Bounded Awareness: Implications for Ethical Decision Making By: Bazerman, Max, and Ovul Sezer Abstract—In many of the business scandals of the new millennium, the... View Details
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
prevention of being unethical. (The paper will be published in the academic journal, "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.") "Since the Enron scandal, there has been a lot of research across disciplines on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
claim to systematic scientific insight. This book describes the first generation of economic forecasters and the methods they created to predict the future of the economy. The forecasting field was initially developed by entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman