Filter Results
:
(191)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (191)
- Faculty Publications (32)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (191)
- Faculty Publications (32)
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
launch a new blockchain currency to facilitate financial services for unbanked and underbanked customers in emerging markets via their smartphone. Santos had to decide whether to go forward with the new plan despite regulatory risk,...
View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
JCI is facing decisions regarding implementation of its business strategy, wondering if now is the time to diversify its service offerings. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=805119 Kendall...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
surgical service that is constantly improving. The case has many details about how Dr. Shingleton works with his staff and patients and how the provider team focuses on patient care. A key measure of productivity for the surgery center is...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
FDA to work 1 million acres of forest, a concession worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Every word of the company’s forty-page proposal was plagiarized from a U.S. Forest Service report on woodlands 7,000 miles away. And even though I...
View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
collaboration is becoming a new and important source of competitive advantage. We propose several frameworks to help firms develop and exploit this new ability. Explicating Lean Principles by Examining Indian Software Services Authors:...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
types of work Cash rewards are best suited as a motivator for work that is measured quantitatively, Whillans says. Many studies of the service and sales industries show that cash rewards lead to increased sales and improved customer...
View Details
Keywords:
All Industries
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
tightly to volatile gas prices and the faltering auto industry. From a resident’s point of view, life in a city with inconsistent municipal services and simmering racial tensions could be even more tenuous. While many suburbs prospered,...
View Details
Keywords:
April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors examine prominent placement of search engines' own services and effects on users' choices. Evaluating a natural experiment in which...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
care at religious mass gatherings. However, in 2015, at the Kumbh Mela in Nashik and Trimbakeshwar, the state government extended its services to include a hypertension-screening program. We examine here the value and implications of such...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
School Case 217-013 Nirvana Vihar Rehabilitation Homes Kumar Builders (KUL) was finally nearing completion on the four luxury condominium towers that comprised the first phase of its bold vision for the redevelopment of more than 70 acres...
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
Americas. Among the top players in the U.S. toy market, LEGO stands out because it is a privately held company that has been owned by the same Danish family since it was founded in 1932. Unlike most in this highly competitive group of toy makers, LEGO has the View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
you knew it, new factories were built close by to supply the first plant. Out of what was one plant, often in the middle of nowhere, seven or eight years later you’d see thriving communities. These plants produced products and services...
View Details
Keywords:
Roger Thompson
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
high-priced, low-volume, luxury travel product in its existing locations; so to continue its growth, it is now trying to expand into East Africa, where the traditional safari approach by most providers has been a high-volume, low-cost,...
View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
kitchen) “They were self-taught, and they were amazing. It really showed me the promise of the people of eastern Kentucky,” says Marietta, who later drew on the same talent pool to launch Mountain Tech Media, a digital marketing firm that provides design, branding, and...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
crippling civil conflict: Sri Lanka is at a pivotal moment in its history, he says, a moment that represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do no less than help shape his country’s future. He turns back to the lake, framing the view in his mind’s eye. Looming in...
View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
participating firms' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can benefit affiliated firms: price discrimination and advertising. For vouchers to...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
programming vocals, writing the synth line, deciding what the bass line is going to be. I think there’s enormous discipline, you know, beyond the fact that I’ve been able to feel safe in this time, that my family is safe. It’s a luxury to...
View Details
- Web
Art Nature Business
report released by the Norwegian Center for Climate Services in February 2019. A Climate in Svalbard 2100 report states that the annual mean air temperature in Svalbard is projected to increase by 7 to 10 degrees Celsius by the end of...
View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
each branch of the armed services must make. Army and Marine Corps officers operate in an inherently uncertain environment. They define the mission but then give subordinates the flexibility to adjust to realities on the ground. This...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
service especially needed given the isolation caused by the pandemic. After two decades in the senior housing industry, which included overseeing a multibillion-dollar portfolio for a REIT, Oppenheim developed a vitality framework built...
View Details