Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (4,436) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (4,436) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 99 of 4,436 Results →
  • 09 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

assuming all members of the team are pulling in the same direction. But what if they aren't? Can being exposed to intercultural conflicts and tensions have an impact even on observers who are not directly involved in these disharmonies?... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • January 2020
  • Case

Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth

By: Ayelet Israeli, Carla Larangeira and Mariana Cal
In mid-2019, Carlos Hank was deliberating over the results for Banorte Móvil—the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico’s most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte´s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had... View Details
Keywords: Data Analytics; Customer Lifetime Value; Financial Institutions; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Customers; Technology Adoption; Communication Strategy; Banking Industry; Mexico; Latin America
Related
  • 26 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

writes. “ Cellophane packages were expected to protect the ‘virginity’ of the content and presented it as pure and untouched. But, in fact, keeping the virginity involved tremendous human manipulation.” Related Reading: The Paradoxical... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising
  • 21 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

randomizing, of necessity, involves a trade-off. Focusing on short-term cost-effectiveness often leads managers to implement new programs at sites or at times when they think they will do the most good. But such targeted interventions... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 16 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

Is there something satisfying and memorable in the experience that will make them want to return?" Jennifer M. Koen (HBS MBA '97), director of innovation for Godiva Chocolatier, explains that Godiva is in the process of a top-down refresh of its brand that will... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products
  • Web

RCS Cheat Sheet - Research Computing Services

number of people involved in the work. If you opt to work in a shared folder , you can request one using this form . Transfer data onto the cluster, keeping in mind its data security level . If you'd like to use our MariaDB database... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2017
  • Blog Post

How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA

to troubleshoot the breakdown of an electric motor. This involved having to identify causes of the failure, produce remedial plans, and subsequently implement measures to fix the problem and undertake projects to prevent future failures.... View Details
  • 04 Aug 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

whether common sense based on accumulated experience can be of any help to decision-makers forced to predict the future in complex situations. Watts questions much of the recent work that purports to identify causes and effects in complex, unique situations View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 10 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

Business School and author of nine books, including Learning in Action. The details vary, but in the main, all organizational change involves three phases: an initial stage of recognition and preparation, followed by the implementation of... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
  • 20 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time

getting bigger or richer; “growth involves changes to the internal ‘machinery’ of the firm itself,” according to the paper. The researchers used Compustat, a dataset of all United States companies listed on the stock exchange from 1959 to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
  • Research Summary

Managing Marketspace Service Interfaces

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

Jeffrey F. Rayport is focusing on the strategic challenges that face businesses selling information-intensive products and services. A key strategic issue in such businesses is the dematerialization of information-intensive products and services as a consequence of... View Details

  • 2024
  • Case

Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations: Figueres the Negotiator (C)

By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
This three-part, stop action case study, structured for classroom discussion, centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Management; International Relations; Leadership
Related
  • 2007
  • Book

An Experiment in Fair Value Accounting? The State of the Art in Research and Thought Leadership on Accounting for Life Assurance in the UK and Continental Europe

By: Joanne G Horton, Richard H. Macve and George Serafeim
"Fair value" is currently the central topic of debate in the development of accounting standards. While it has now been defined to mean an exit price in US GAAP, the IASB is still considering its own definition, and some commentators are arguing for versions of entry... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Financial Instruments; Framework; Market Entry and Exit; Insurance; Revenue Recognition; Fair Value Accounting; Standards; United Kingdom
Related
  • Web

Providers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

reliable. Physician referrals should be based on excellent patient results, together with the ability of referred providers to share information and integrate care across the entities involved in the care cycle. Improve the process of... View Details
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

Winter 2017 MIT Sloan Management Review Why Big Data Isn't Enough By: Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract—There is a growing belief that sophisticated algorithms can explore huge databases and find relationships independent of any preconceived hypotheses. But in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Jul 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

experiencing untimely increases in productivity now? These thoughts were triggered by several disparate and clearly unscientific "data" points. First, the buzz at a seminar of professional service managers in which I was View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 11 Aug 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Perfecting the Project Pitch

second-year students, and I think that by the time they get to the spring of their second year, they understand that just about every job involves some kind of selling," he says. View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher
  • 15 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

pretty regular basis. To have him there as the mother lode of business history, if you will, and to watch his work evolve and to see how he involved others in the creation of this work was both fascinating and inspiring, particularly for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2021
  • Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

risk of mental illness involving psychosis. Other studies suggest the cannabis compounds can treat a variety of health conditions, including seizures, inflammation, and chronic pain. However, because cannabis is federally deemed an... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
  • 24 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors

requesting career advice. The councilors received identical email queries except for two differences. Sometimes, the student requesting help was a white male student; other times, the student was a white female, Black male, Black female, Latino, or Latina. The second... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds