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- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
Companies need to have smart technicians who stay abreast of emerging digital threats and defenses, of course, but the technicians shouldn't be calling the shots. General managers need to take the lead in building processes that will...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
with a team of fellow alums to create a $2.5 billion technology company. Today, Langford’s focus falls under an entirely different category of urgency: As executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP), he leads a nonprofit...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
chronic source of problem in the labor market. Employers really rely on informed inferences about who’s going to be a good fit. They often end up with mismatches that lead to both voluntary and involuntary turnover, very expensive for...
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- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
Coast operations and its West Coast computer people would severely affect the company. The focus for much of this division was PARC. In the 1970s, PARC was remarkably successful in developing ingenious products that would fundamentally alter the nature of computing....
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
assets are practicing sustainable development. According to this line of thinking, harvesting trees and using the money generated to build schools would be an example of sustainable development. But others insist that development is sustainable only if natural-resource...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
audit the way their process works. I hope also that considerably more effort is put in to understanding the user experience of a job applicant in responding to a request over long descriptions that are very intimidating in their use of...
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- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
Balanced Scorecard, HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, there is compelling evidence that better measurement, and therefore better information, leads to better decision-making. Deeper engagement with the broad stakeholder...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
of the more expensive skin care brands. Moreover, although leading brands might be global, their appeal is not. In fragrances, every market’s list of its top 20 brands is unique. The top-selling fragrance in Germany, for instance, does...
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- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
from the crowd of more experienced users and are therefore able to better capture value from using the goods. Data on firm contributions to open source software (OSS), an important crowdsourced public good, is used to test the theoretical...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
to want to buy a service. Initially, TripAdvisor was just making money mostly on attention, these ads. But as it became the biggest company in the world in terms of user visits and traffic, it sort of naturally started saying, “Hey, can...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
where does the ultimate onus lay here? These technologies are so complicated and so advanced and changing so fast and learning so fast. Is it incumbent on the Microsofts and on the Googles to ensure their tools aren’t vulnerable to this? Or is it incumbent upon the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
professionals, nurses, doctors, teachers. Parallel to that, we develop our digital specialization, and we just launched Randstad Digital, which is a $3 billion business focused on digital talent for digital transformations at our clients—so think about cloud, think...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
have their stacks of bottles burst as a SodaStream user hits the machines' carbonation button. The message: making your own soda saves the world from the scourge of plastic bottles. The ad was rejected by CBS but went viral, ultimately...
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- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
self-disclosed violations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-020.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAustin, Blakeley, & Cambridge, LLC. Harvard Business School Case 207-098 The founding partners of ABC, LLC, one of the View Details
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
quickly. And so you think about that, and we can take that and scale it across every business within Morningstar, because the core technology there that we’re using for Mo is similar. However, if you move from one part of the business to the other, what you’re changing...
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- 23 Oct 2018
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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, free services are often high...
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Dina Gerdeman
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current situations that PMs at leading technology companies face. We will explore three different modules: Improving Existing Product Functionality. How to determine which user pain points should be fixed...
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