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- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Geradin Abstract—Many of the largest and most successful businesses today rely on providing services at no charge to at least a portion of their users. For consumers, it is easy to celebrate free service. At least in the short term, View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
was what this free product would do to print revenues. Third, experiments and innovation require time and, by definition, a tolerance for failure. Trouble is, quarterly reporting pressures by public markets...
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- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
Why are so many businesses—though seemingly intent on fostering innovation—unable to get new products through their organizations and into the marketplace? Ed Ludwig faced such circumstances as the new president of New Jersey-based Becton...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
our HBS professors had always warned that if we spent $5,000 today, we would be giving up a fortune ten or twenty years down the road, given the stock market’s rate of return. A famous futurist of the day was predicting that U.S. View Details
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Israel - Global Activities 2021
Government, and the International Economy UnitJohn D. Black Professor of Business Administration The case presents Netafim’s new CEO, Gaby Miodownik, in 2019 as he considers expanding the firm from a supplier of precision drip irrigation View Details
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Online AI Course | HBS Online
Scope, and Learning Featured Exercises Analyze your company’s strategy across three key pillars: product value, network value, and data value Explore how businesses can adopt the platform model Identify risks related to digital...
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- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
down" and "bottom up" provisions, the product of a political compromise. Some would claim that markets that were too free and not sufficiently regulated got us into this mess. That will be a topic of debate...
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by Jim Heskett
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
anything to learn from Europe? What do you think? Original Article In this forum 15 years ago we discussed the question of the effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on immigration from Mexico to the United States. At...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Specifically, Martin Edic points out that "Much of global air business travel, for example, is unnecessary ... (with) broadband connections combined with free VoIP software." Necessary behaviors can be fostered by incentives as...
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by James Heskett
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Martha Lagace, he discusses what companies should bear in mind going forward.Lagace: People often equate globalization with the idea that globally standardized products are displacing local ones. In...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
2021 48th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Honors Black Women Leaders
the series was an opportunity to both offer the program for free and to reach a broader audience. With travel to Boston no longer a consideration, Hollins and Williams reached out to undergraduates at HBCUs, public universities, and...
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Phillip Michael Strazzulla
on careers by productizing the HBS coffee chat model, according to Strazzulla. “If you are at HBS and you had worked at McKinsey for three years but you want to work at a startup in product management...
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- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
diverge from the typical nine-to-five. Contrary to some expectations—but consistent with years of research—that flexibility has actually spurred worker productivity to improve. In polls that Neeley has taken at companies in a variety of...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
with Microsoft (The Free Press), Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano of MIT's Sloan School of Management use this high-tech confrontation to outline a comprehensive approach to strategy in the ultracompetitive environment created by the...
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by Daniel Penrice
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
out the costs of leaving the EU, citizens have not heard a forward-looking plan on how the country could leverage EU membership more effectively in the future, if the country would decide to stay. The country needs to get on with taking steps to raise View Details
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by Michael Blanding
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
to launch, scale, and maintain a successful platform business Overcome operational challenges associated with developing, overseeing, or interacting with a platform business Explore strategies for transitioning a product or service into a...
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- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
publishers and retailers to social networks and gaming sites. Job growth on the Internet stands in sharp contrast to the US economy as a whole, which has suffered from high unemployment for years. The report found that the gross domestic View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
Administration, is coeditor of Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software and has published cases on organizations that practice crowdsourcing, including Data.gov, TopCoder, OpenIDEO, Google, Threadless, and Wikipedia. He serves as...
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- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
getting the help they need.” To that end, Simons created a free online job design optimization tool. Try it out to see if your job is offering a healthy mix of responsibility and support. If the answer is no, then talk to your supervisor...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
integrity; and "neoteny," a trait that makes them "addicted to life" and able to recruit protectors, nurturers, and believers through a long and productive leadership career. In pointing out one other thing shared by...
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by James Heskett