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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
General Services Administration. The ballroom was once the Postmaster General’s library, and a cupola lets in natural light. During the Civil War it was used as a hospital operating room where amputations were performed. Now we have wedding receptions and other View Details
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
programs on preparing teams to function in a VUCA world, with rapidly changing customer, competitor, and stakeholder needs. Ideally, this means moving on from a fear of VUCA to embracing what I call VUCAgility, the move in mindset, backed... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
function and authority to CEOs. Because coaching records, player statistics and team performance are readily accessible, measurement and comparison of organizational performance in the NFL is reliable and consistent. Football coaches use... View Details
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
detailed case studies and 53 additional interviews with risk-management staff at five other major banks from 2001 to 2010, this paper shows that relentless risk measurement is contingent on what I call the "calculative culture" (Mikes, 2009a). While the risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
delivery, as Domino's does in the United States. Pujals recognized, however, that he knew little about making pizza or delivering fast food, let alone how such a business might function in the Spanish market. So he decided to start small,... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Leaders Program
functional skills such as negotiations. These have been great because they have been tailored with a climate lens, so for example, the negotiations one was paired with a discussion with the lead UK COP negotiator. Henry Tao: The CLP... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
of uncertainty and where assets are often difficult to value. Second, because the various stages of the venture capital process are related, the entire function is best viewed as a cycle. Finally, unlike most financial markets, the... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
HICKS Illustration by Joe Ciardiello Jeff Hicks (MBA ’97) arrived at HBS with ten years of experience as an advertising executive at Leo Burnett in Chicago. Disillusioned with the trend toward “unbundling” agencies into different View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
several proof-of-concept tests and for which Rey foresaw a clear market in nutritional supplements and functional foods. The case provides context on the company; describes advances in crops genetics focused to climate change and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
restaurants. This case examines four such services: Entertainment Book, Restaurant.com, Rewards Network, and OpenTable. Despite key functional similarities, each of the services chooses an importantly different approach—different pricing,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
presence of iTunes has a negative impact on the size of p2p networks resulting in reduced congestion and more efficient file sharing. Better functioning p2p networks, in turn, result in more content exchange, affecting positively iPod... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge? Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet As a consumer, do you like frequent prices changes? Share your insights below. View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
patients undergoing thoracic surgery is essential for their comfort and for improving their ability to function after surgery, but it can significantly increase costs. Here, we demonstrate how time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
products. Markets are excellent at promoting innovation and driving toward efficiency, but they don't function without governments. As we've been discussing, the FDA protects the public while industry seeks out consumers of health-care... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
enterprise one day. I might start an NGO. I might start a nonprofit. I might start a company that’s focused on increasing social welfare.” That’s not by accident—it is in part a function of the creativity and the work of the SEI founders,... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
opposite: He delegates decision rights and makes functions and business units accountable. "What companies are doing at this stage is refocusing their strategy from an inward perspective to an outward focus," Serafeim says.... View Details
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
ultimately a cross-functional issue that involves how other functions in the firm interact with sales. Third, and I want to emphasize this, aligning strategy and sales is ultimately a leadership issue, not just a sales or strategy issue.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Evolution as a System of Governance, due for publication November 2009. The purpose of this monograph is to put forth an original concept of capitalism as a system of governance, including a theory of how it functions at any point in time... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
also lose something as well? What are the tradeoffs? A: In a sense, the story of consumer market regulation is only a recent chapter in the broader arc of modernization. As economic functions in society become differentiated and... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
capitalists in the Valley function as an informal, close-knit guild. Today's employee may be tomorrow's boss; today's competitor, tomorrow's partner or acquisition. If you're an experienced, reputable member of the guild, you're entitled... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap