Filter Results
:
(160)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(160)
- People (1)
- News (37)
- Research (87)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (38)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(160)
- People (1)
- News (37)
- Research (87)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (38)
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
tweaked the website, the overall sales conversion rate for buyers actually went up by as much as 23 percent, meaning that customers weren’t just buying higher-priced items, rather, they were buying more items overall. When Teixeira and Ngwe View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
harder for breweries to fall into bailout loans, which happened to many teams last year, Casadesus-Masanell says. Enhanced graphics include waterfall charts for just about every metric imaginable on a team’s own brewery and its competitors. Teams can View Details
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require...
View Details
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
IS FIRST Drilling down further into the data, they analyzed which factors determine which companies were most likely to be helped or hurt by such ties. First off, McDonald and his co-authors hypothesized that the biggest beneficiary would...
View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
new research based on patent and trademark data by Harvard Business School professor William Kerr drills down to further identify the probable ethnic composition of U.S. inventors, the industries they influence, and the geographies they...
View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
From Das’s Desk
their professional and personal growth. Users are able to easily sort the content based on their professional or personal interests—such as entrepreneurship, work-life balance, health care, diversity and inclusion, and board governance—and can View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211080-PDF-ENG Drilling Safety at BP: The Deepwater Horizon Accident Stephen P. Kaufman and Laura WinigHarvard Business School Case 611-017 Following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico explosion and oil...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
were paralyzed by fear of a Chinese takeover of the world. Google didn't exactly leave China or prevail in the face-off over government-banned content. The BP oil spill debacle in the U.S. Gulf region didn't destroy the company, didn't stop offshore oil View Details
Keywords:
by Staff
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
my interviews, among the most frequently mentioned diversity-related HR practice was the five-minute drill, which began with Gerstner's top team and has cascaded down from the chairman to two levels down from CEO. The five-minute drill...
View Details
Keywords:
by David A. Thomas
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
To illustrate how Cisco uses these three layers, Cunningham cites a hypothetical example. Assume that for a given year, the average score for product reliability has slipped a bit. Drilling down to the bottom two layers of data, Cisco...
View Details
Keywords:
by Jean Ayers
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
further objective is to support economic growth, with “affordable” prices for energy and avoidance of supply interruptions. The conflicts among these are apparent. ANWR drilling (Alaska) would be economical and reduce foreign oil...
View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one...
View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
execution of their core business needs as well as on how well they supported the needs of the new business." But just as leaders must align behaviors toward common goals, they need to respect the very different paths that core and growth businesses follow. When...
View Details
Keywords:
by Paul Michelman
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
contract the demand for goods and services. In short, the economic consequences would likely be a major recession, or possibly even a depression.” Drilling Down Now a resident of Houston, where he moved after retiring from HBS in 1996,...
View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
record before this spill, which may also have contributed to the creation of this fund. After this, the case describes the various ways in which the U.S. government is involved in offshore oil, starting from the leasing of tracts, the regulation of View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
“Something important is going to happen here.” That’s the expectation Tom DeLong hopes to create in his students from the moment they walk through the door of his Aldrich classroom. Here, he drills down to some of the preparation that...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
many firms that were making other products. PS: As you well know, one thing that’s been drilled into the head of every business in the world, including health care businesses, is this notion of just-in-time inventory, and we’ve all worked...
View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
ratios. Students can apply the traditional DuPont decomposition framework to drill down into the business model of the two companies. The case then allows students to use the modified (also known as additive or alternate) DuPont approach...
View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
"hitch" changes (a hitch is the two-week stint each worker does offshore, followed by two weeks off-duty). Each facility contains space for outdoor work, production facilities, power generation, drilling operations, control...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
taking full advantage of new media. The NMNH's Bob Fri observes that "the Web experience is a lot like the museum experience: You come in, surf around until you see something that attracts your attention, and then drill down to find out...
View Details