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- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
customers by providing them adequate functionality in return for lower prices. The technology of this sort of disruptive innovation offers "good enough" performance along traditional metrics and is supported by a business model that generates attractive View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
enjoy that Some days I work with our CFO on food-spend projections, or help our COO build a multi-year strategic planning framework. Other days, I work with my team to coordinate food donations or manage inventory turns. Even though we... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
change the world. The conversation, including five key insights from the P-TECH experience, has been edited for length and clarity. 1. Plan for change at scale Kanter: Just to develop the first P-TECH school, you had to deal with the K-12... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
most sales compensation plans (about 70%, according to surveys) incentivize volume independent of the type of sale or cost-to-serve different customers. This is ineffective deal management and, to avoid this, some firms establish a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
the largest financial services providers in the U.S., indicate that customer sensitivity to service time varies widely and predictably with observable market characteristics. In turn, we find evidence that local operating managers account... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
deteriorated and the financial crisis intensified. [ ] In March and April 2008, when [Abercrombie & Fitch] was making operational plans (for example, sourcing raw material and View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
whose role is to listen to and help resolve employees' work-related problems. It offers perspectives from two business experts who have opposing viewpoints on a family like corporate culture and on whether the People Support plan is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
disseminating information about peer behavior on savings. Low-saving employees received simplified plan enrollment or contribution increase forms. A randomized subset of forms stated the fraction of age-matched coworkers participating in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
companies offer a direct stake in the company's performance through stock, a share in profits, or both. Companies with employee stock ownership plans report significantly higher sales growth and higher revenue per employee than do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
can be commercial." Roslyn Braeman Payne (MBA 1970), president of Jackson Street Partners in San Francisco, California, is the "angel" whose financial support launched Antares. "While supporting an AIDS-focused program in San Francisco,"... View Details
- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
activity. Janice admits that raising VC funding has been harder than she’d thought, given how much money there is in Wall Street’s current clean energy and infrastructure boom. She did close her seed round in March, led by Earthshot Ventures. She has no immediate View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
add-on that’s separate from the financial numbers–laden annual report. “To have real impact,” they write, “these separate reports need to be integrated” into a single One Report that reveals how a company is making sustainability a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
explores family companies from managerial, psychological, and financial angles. Topics range from "entrepreneurial management styles," to "birth order dynamics," to "women's issues in the family firm." "What's important is that students... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
level. Inheriting Losers Authors:Li Jin and Anna Scherbina Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We show that new managers who take over mutual fund portfolios sell off inherited momentum losers at higher rates... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52102 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Credit-Induced Boom and Bust By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Amir Kermani Abstract—Can a credit expansion induce a boom and bust in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Most Successful CEOs Come from Within By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
2008 financial crisis, and the ensuing valley in cleantech investment nearly wiped out the company. “It’s not like software. You need shipyards to bend and weld steel, and that takes time.” “It’s not like software. You need shipyards to... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
of the financial scandals that propelled the recent economic collapse, Heese looked at enforcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission, asking why regulators were so amiss at monitoring firms' compliance with accounting standards.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
innovation like developing quite new products. But few are good at exploring significantly new ideas and radically different business approaches. Empirically, it is hard for these more novel ideas to compete inside large businesses in business View Details