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- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
relationship can range from loose to tight with respect to the financial and operational interactions between affiliates and the central organization. A loose affiliation generally refers to a network of organizations committed to exchanging knowledge, pursuing a... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
Beyond the economic terms of the companies' arrangement, they aimed to foster a strong social contract between their management teams. Yet the implementation of their arrangement strained the emerging deal, and the separate distributors,... View Details
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
data security, implementation challenges, and the limits of education technology's impact in the classroom. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/technology-innovations-in-k-12-education/an/314123-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
1990s, NASA had implemented a program called "Faster, Better, Cheaper," (FBC) which involved making fundamental changes to the way the organization developed unmanned spacecraft. It was a massive organizational transformation... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
into any other state or geography that implemented P-TECH. So, you got the key players not just to donate something, but to be part of the decision-making process. The new principal of the first P-TECH school went door to door in the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
Mobilization By: Marx, Benjamin, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri Abstract—Voter mobilization campaigns face trade-offs in young democracies. In a large-scale experiment implemented in 2013 with the Kenyan Electoral Commission (IEBC), text... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
that emerged from experimentation. Interpretation of such observations leads us to new propositions about the interplay of design and identity in times of radical change. Overall, the propositions suggest that after a dramatic shock, efforts to ascertain and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
on the US model?” And yes, that is how they start. But then they realize the implementation is very different. The logistics are different, the structures are different, the consumer behavior is different. They start with the same... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
Implementing a 'Social Way' for Global Mining The mining giant Anglo American attempts to differentiate itself through its social performance, yet public expectations are still growing. Maintaining a "social license" to operate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
member, its economic boom and subsequent bust in 2008, and its policy response. After implementing significant economic and political reforms in order to qualify for EU membership in 2004, Latvia had turned its sights toward joining the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
need to determine which of the lessons learned from Haier's international operations should be implemented in China and which skills learned at home could best be applied abroad. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
developing its first project, a new city called PlanIT Valley, outside of Porto, Portugal. The company has clarified its vision and is moving into the implementation phase, which involves fundraising, signing up channel partners, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
higher prices can increase use, either by targeting distribution to high-use households (a screening effect), or by stimulating use psychologically through a sunk-cost effect. We develop a methodology for separating these two effects. We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
strengthened by a fascination with ideology—that is, the framework of beliefs and ideas that a community uses to define and implement values, having to do, for example, with rights and duties of membership in the community, the role of... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
health and financial savings. It's not always easy to implement behavioral economics techniques in a way that properly incentivizes people to change their behavior. One thing is sure, however. When they are applied correctly, those... View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
Students need to be aware of different country conditions, demands on implementation of different strategies, and impact on culture. Also discusses energy performance contracting in the context of making India's energy generation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
make exactly that happen: a process tested successfully by BCG teams in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. A process I have seen implemented with good and not-so-good managers; on big and small teams, with tight... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
implementation of firm strategy). Thus, agency theory predicts managers will, on average, use the discretion in SFAS 142 consistent with private incentives. We test these hypotheses in a sample of firms with market indications of goodwill... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
We implement a variety of machine learning methods to forecast daily sales. We find that using social media information results in statistically significant improvements in the out-of-sample accuracy of the forecasts, with relative... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
therefore, to see how this law will be implemented in practice. In addition, there are likely to be some unintended negative consequences. Will the new derivatives rules pull in various industrial companies that will now have to use... View Details
Keywords: by Staff