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- 24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24
Data Authors:Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun Publication:Chap. 7 in Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data, edited by Timothy Dunne, J. Bradford Jensen, and Mark J. Roberts. The University of Chicago Press, 2009 Abstract The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 9
claim that goal setting, like a potent medication, can produce both beneficial effects and systematic, negative outcomes (Ordóñez, Schweitzer, Galinsky, & Bazerman, 2009), and as a result, it should be carefully prescribed and closely... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
the song. The difficulty with this approach is that the economics of producing music are characterized by significant fixed costs. It is not much more expensive to promote an entire album than to promote an individual song. With complete... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
information technology as being subject to fashion, but the same thing happens, the network effect. This is important when we start talking about B2B hubs." The third characteristic is differentiated products and prices. Most of the costs of View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
theories: in the language of March (1991), clustering promotes exploration in information space but decreases exploration in solution space. Previous research, generally focusing on only one of those two spaces at a time, has produced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
years, we've produced sixteen teaching cases, two conceptual notes, and a working paper. Q: The performance problems of U.S. public education are receiving growing attention. How are urban schools performing in terms of student... View Details
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
complications (surging waves) arise. In the Agile environment, the purpose of rapid development is to produce a minimal workable product at the end of each delivery cycle, or "sprint." This short runway approach allows a team to... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
produce products to fill the gap. Compact fluorescent light bulbs, already on the market, seemed the obvious replacement. But light-emitting diodes (LEDs) were attracting attention as a more efficient alternative in lighting, steadily... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
toolkit introduces the fundamental terminology and calculations associated with pricing and profitability analysis. Users will learn how to produce and interpret demand curves and calculate the price elasticity of demand. The concepts of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008
Harvard Business School Case 708-018 China's oil industry, with majority ownership vested in the government, had engaged in an "equity oil" strategy for the past few years—acquiring equity interests in oil producing nations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
"New Age" Internet-based businesses such as Rackspace Managed Hosting, and for that matter Google. Q: One of the most powerful ideas presented in the books is the realization that not all customers produce equal value—in fact,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
risk-taking, and this particular war proved the value of taking risks on new technologies and methods of production beyond one's imagination. As just one example, the rapid development of the synthetic rubber industry demonstrated that pushing unproved technologies... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
producers argued the industry was making strides towards greater sustainability and cited the unique advantages of palm oil: it was free of unhealthy trans fats, for example, and required less land to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53422 Harvard Business School Case 918-011 Harvard Men's Soccer In the fall of 2016, the Crimson, Harvard’s undergraduate newspaper, broke a story revealing that the 2012 Harvard Men’s Soccer team had View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
conscious thought that produced the best results overall. It resulted in participants choosing options that were both compliant with the decision rule and had a high number of positive attributes. Q: One way you and colleagues have tried... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
decent pay and job security) workforce to supply the manpower with which to create sophisticated products. The export of these well-designed and efficiently produced goods was actively supported by the government in many ways while... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
the mid-1920s, Bruce Barton produced The Man Nobody Knows, comparing Jesus to a sales and advertising man. In the middle of the Great Depression, Dale Carnegie, a former Armour salesman, wrote the bestseller How to Win Friends and... View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
for others?" But there was little controversy and not much discussion. These conversations, the offline talks before the big meeting, the CEO's backing, and the meeting itself seemed to produce agreement. So we started... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
readers? Use data science. Make money by doing deals with television and filmmakers and book publishers. The case describes the challenges of matching readers to stories and of helping writers produce better stories by supplying feedback... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
many in these industries have also propels them to introduce new work that questions and challenges these norms, even though that is more risky. "So you have to ask, 'Do I want to direct or reflect? Do I want to simply reflect people's tastes as I see them or do I... View Details