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- 04 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World
Being proactive about how you handle data and run your models to protect privacy isn't just smart—it's essential. It’s really the best way to go about it. “There's a growing awareness among customers and users about how their data is used, and people View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide
is that we want to make money and always looking to generate alpha in our investment strategies, so if machine learning can make us profitable and improve our risk management and trading efficiency, so be it. Srinivasan: It’s definitely...
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- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-090.pdf Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It Authors:Kash Rangan, Lisa A. Chase, and Sohel Karim Abstract The authors argue for a strategic and pragmatic, rather than ideological,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets
that a body like Facebook has for our wellbeing, and how much responsibility should they have, or how careful should they be, in the way that they manipulate our emotions?” Asked whether he believes social media is partly responsible for increasing social division,...
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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
that it would lose a great deal if its bid failed. Because its threat to counter your bid is not credible, you decide you will place a bid. The day before you are to announce your bid, your competitor's CEO says at an open meeting that he has no specific acquisition...
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by Deepak Malhotra
- 01 Mar 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?
Practitioners like former Johnson & Johnson CEO James Burke endorsed it, academics like Edgar Schein of MIT gave it a more definitive definition, and several of us put a value on it. Since then, the importance of organizational...
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by James Heskett
- 02 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving
Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Emerging trends Before the onset of COVID-19, a number of trends were becoming clear. It was apparent that cloud kitchens were more...
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- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
to give them a better chance of surviving. In contrast, industries with increasing customer demand—grocery stores, online entertainment, teleconference providers, and their suppliers—need to adjust to this directional reality at a slower, yet View Details
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
Toxic workers aren’t just a pain in the rear; they’re also a pain in the bottom line, according to a new Harvard Business School working paper. Dylan Minor, visiting assistant professor of business administration in the HBS Strategy unit,...
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by Roberta Holland
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
for teams to thrive, even in the leader’s absence. Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School, served as senior vice president for leadership and strategy at Uber and has consulted with WeWork and...
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by Kristen Senz
- June 2021
- Technical Note
SPAC Space
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2020, over half of all initial public offerings (IPOs) in the United States were special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), blank-check companies that typically had two years to find a business to take public, usually through a reverse merger. Together, 248...
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Special Purpose Acquisition Companies;
SPACs;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Going Public;
Initial Public Offering;
Investment;
Strategy
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "SPAC Space." Harvard Business School Technical Note 721-456, June 2021.
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
on an Emerging Field Authors:Sandeep Purao, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan Hevner, Veda C. Storey, Jan Pries-Heje, Brian Smith, and Ying Zhu Abstract The boundaries and contours of design sciences continue to undergo definition and refinement....
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Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
“father of agency theory,” Milton Friedman, reconciled his views with managing for long-term sustainability rather than maximum short-term shareholder value. Jacob Navon said, for example, “I think this whole debate is introducing spurious distinctions and View Details
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by James Heskett
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
Datassential also in May, 75 percent of consumers said safety was more important than visiting their favorite restaurant and 64 percent said they will definitely avoid eating out. Customers with higher risk tolerances have patronized...
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- 13 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Spot a Liar
in order to suss out cues for deception. They looked for both strategic and nonstrategic language cues. "A strategic cue is a conscious strategy to reduce the likelihood of the deception being detected," Van Swol explains,...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
Francesca Gino: We can divide leaders out there into three buckets. The first bucket is executives who say, I want to bring more diversity into the organization and think about equity and inclusion, but this is not at the top of my priority list. The second bucket is...
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by Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Jun 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?
sustainable without a framework of cultural values and rules." Drew Williamson pictured the relationship as "a virtuous circle that can break at any of the three points. It starts with a happy, innovative culture that generates a View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 17 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Being the Boss
responsibility for the relationship, because it's definitely two-way. I'm building on the traditions of [HBS professors emeriti] John Kotter and John Gabarro, who [in 1980] wrote an article about managing your boss, which was very radical...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2280370 A Formal Theory of Strategy By: Van den Steen, Eric Abstract—What makes a decision strategic? When is strategy most important? This paper studies the structure and value of...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
operating system companies need both end-users and application developers. Increasingly, thanks in large part to technology and the Internet, multi-sided markets are becoming more common. But how do they work? What are effective View Details