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- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
Summing Up Is Our Thinking About Work Outmoded? In spite of contrary evidence, there is still a popular belief that working more hours produces more results. People too often assume that being "at work" is equivalent to... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
understanding what they want. And there's the rub. Newspapers have historically not been centered around this. Instead, their natural center of gravity—and one that served it in good stead for a long time—has long been their product (news) and those who View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality? Authors:Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz Publication:The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
emphasize expanding sales, with profitability to follow with a lag—rather than having to produce high profitability along with rapid expansion from the start. And, finally, a key virtue of acquisition from the perspective of the mice is... View Details
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
the people who are attracted to this approach are mathematicians, not economists, so they might not appreciate the underlying nature of some of the things they're describing." The paper notes that one neglected feature of the securities View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
representatives from all the functions and areas on which the business unit depended. The view across the organization revealed business opportunities that would have been hard for any one unit to see by itself. For example, Gillette's Oral-B business unit, centered in... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
can easily tweak that parameter on the profile and have the machine immediately produce another sample. It is important to note that outsourcing product development to customers does not eliminate learning by doing—nor should it. What it... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Sustaining Innovation When Outsourcing Components in Multi-technology, Multi-component Systems Authors:Ian Mackenzie and Casimer DeCusatis Publication:Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice (forthcoming) Abstract Firms producing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
foreign firms. In the United States, government officials have attempted to shift food-safety efforts to prevention with the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act in 2011. One result: Produce is now subject to preventative... View Details
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
not goals in and of themselves," Hall says. "It's hard to wake up in the morning and get excited about creating shareholder value. The way to be a successful company is to think, How do we produce this at better costs, or how do... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
literature—including Frankel's work—is that since not all problems identified by frontline staff are of equal importance, it is worth time and money to perform extensive prioritization. Suggestions that will produce the greatest... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
choice, which was now made all the more stark: 1366 could expand to produce silicon wafers itself, raising the required capital from "friendly" investors and building shipment volume slowly, or 1366 could accelerate its market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
automotive industry: decide which models are produced through online design competitions, and then allow customers to "build their own cars" from the winning designs. The case focuses on two key issues: Can Local Motors build a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
planning and strategy. Q: What is the next step in your research? Will you continue to focus on branching vs. affiliation? A: In conjunction with this research, we have produced another paper with Professor J. Gregory Dees, Pathways to... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
enormous advantage for Japanese companies initially. It is one of the reasons why they were able to produce products with such few defects. U.S. companies used to pride themselves on having good repair networks. Japanese companies came... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
the enterprise and repeatedly tried short-term fixes, all while depending too heavily on financial earnings, rather than innovation. Boeing: The world leader in aviation for 100 years, Boeing lost sight of its purpose to produce safe,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
http://hbr.org/product/samuel-slater-francis-cabot-lowell-the-factory-system-in-u-s-cotton-manufacturing/an/814065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-014 Donfeng Nissan's Venucia (A) The (A) case describes the launch of a new passenger vehicle in China, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
TarontsiHarvard Business School Case 710-002 In March 2009, the government of Iraq decided to hold its first oil field auctions. The auctions were for service contracts on the country's southern oil fields; the winner would obtain the right to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
successful television shows in history; how she created the company, Harpo Productions, that produces that show as well as other media offerings; how she leads and manages her organization; and how she has chosen to use the authority and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
today's companies face. I show that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel