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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
situations that many companies faced, and intensified their need for more sophisticated measures that could be used to evaluate and compare many different types of businesses. Since business policy groups at Harvard and elsewhere remained...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
sophisticated bells and whistles of contemporary marketing. Macondo has been eclipsed by a proliferation of gleaming office towers and high-tech factories in some of the world's greatest cities. Yet Latin Americans will tell you that amid...
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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
how companies, especially those based in developed economies, compete. To survive, companies and their managers will adapt. As some are now beginning to realize, an important part of that adaptation will require a new understanding of art and art making, a View Details
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
they know what’s happening in the world. They’re very smart. They know that they need to look in all pools of talent to get a more diverse workforce. They know that belonging is important. So those companies are actually quite View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
American Enterprise Institute Joe Fuller. Stephen joins me today to discuss the value propositions of public investments in education and training for fostering growth. Such efforts are increasingly backed by sophisticated workforce...
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- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
testing lab by which I test advertising software and look for fraud. Some of them are manual while others are automated. There's no reason why I should have more sophisticated tools than online advertisers, yet in practice many online...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
important gains—not at the individual level, but at the functional level, in terms of how work is getting done. So, again, we start to see this technology used in an increasingly sophisticated way to drive returns.Kerr: Another area that...
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- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
interviews, I walked away deeply impressed by the managerial capacity in emerging markets. The domestic firms are very, very capable. Yes, they operate under particular constraints—we do not see the many middle managers typical for more mature markets; there aren’t the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Case 709-017 Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
most sophisticated companies where there's a steering committee meeting coming up or a board meeting coming up folks will only at that point, because of the presence of a meeting, go and update all of the inputs and the tracker, but not...
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- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
are managed by sophisticated real-time information systems; colleagues working 12 time zones apart can see and hear each other as they work at their desks—or in airport lounges on opposite sides of the planet. Publications, like this one,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
thousand large retailers, primarily in the U.S. and Europe. It basically does the supply-chain job faster and more accurately with the aid of a sophisticated information system than anyone else. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Devices By: Exley, Christine L., and Jeffrey K. Naecker Abstract—Previous research often interprets the choice to restrict one's future opportunity set as evidence for sophisticated time inconsistency. We propose an additional mechanism...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
Your Customer Relationships By: Avery, Jill, Susan Fournier, and John Wittenbraker Abstract—Consumers have always had relationships with brands, but sophisticated tools for analyzing customer data are finally allowing marketing...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
simply the calm before the storm? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/vodafone-in-japan-a/an/711464-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 711-469 Vodafone in Japan (B) By 2005, Vodafone Group was losing its footing in the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
offices. Yet, amid a shaky world economy and an increasingly cutthroat legal profession, Duane Morris' attorneys began to wonder-could collaboration survive as a firm value? Would the firm's culture help it continue to grow in the years ahead and bring in more View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
practices and generate descriptive data to help assess performance. Platforms: Leading firms invest in an infrastructure—a set of development tools, technical standards, and working methods—to facilitate distributed work. The more complex the project and the more...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
mining," notes, "With the help of a sophisticated screening model, you may find some small yet lucrative plays that others have overlooked. Our company has had some success with that strategy in Texas." Even so, Fischer notes that the...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
me to manipulate the data," he notes. "But as we get more sophisticated with the technology, it will all straighten itself out." Hands-On Decision Making Long viewed as an essential aspect of managerial education at HBS, field-based...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
setting out and reinforcing the rules that the Post would follow in the investigation. These rules required vetting each of the news articles in a number of different ways to ensure that the truth they sought was pursued in a clean and above-board way. That's a pretty...
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