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By: Feng Zhu
Professor Zhu’s research focuses on the design of platform business models and its impact on platform performance. Platforms have become central to our economy. A platform is a product or service that enables two or more customer groups to interact. For example,...
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- 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010
struggling with the decision of how to hand over sovereignty to the Iraqi people. Despite daily assassination attempts, tribal warfare, growing violence, and political pressure—at home in Washington, D.C. and abroad—the CPA undertook the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Data and Machine Learning By: Guo, Xiaojia, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, and Bert De Reyck Abstract—Problem definition: In collaboration with Heathrow Airport, we develop a predictive system that generates quantile forecasts of transfer passengers’ View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to...
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by Rachel Layne
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By: Leslie A. Perlow
There has been tremendous change in the workplace — ubiquitous technology, 24/7 globalization, hyper-efficiency and now significant changes in work location. Professor Perlow’s research focuses on the implications for the ways we work and live, and what we can do to... View Details
- 26 Apr 2024
- HBS Case
Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory
Sanders wasn’t afraid to roll up his sleeves to help his team succeed—even mowing the practice fields himself if they didn’t get mowed on time. By his third year at JSU, Sanders had posted the first undefeated season in the school’s history and boosted View Details
- 23 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers
proper return-on-investment analysis can it understand the extent of the caregiving challenges facing their workforce,” Fuller warns. How COVID-19 changed the caregiving landscape For years, caregiving wasn’t discussed on the job. Taking a child to the doctor or...
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by Kara Baskin
- 13 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers
New businesses often struggle finding their first customers. The challenge is even more difficult with startups in the sharing economy that launch as platforms connecting independent service providers with consumers. Take Uber. Its...
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- 18 Apr 2022
- HBS Case
Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off
hadn’t purchased his AR-15 assault-style rifle at a Dick’s Sporting Goods store. But he had legally bought a different shotgun months earlier at a local Dick’s outlet—and that hit close enough to home for Stack. “I don’t want to be part...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 09 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing
interactions that matter most are not with the people you work with closely every day, such as people in your home department. Instead, the real influence comes from colleagues whose intellectual pursuits are vastly different from your...
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by Ben Rand
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)
the product is gripped in the hand and in the choice of finish in the device's housing material. In the case of a personal care product, colors and scents known to be evocative of social bonding experiences can be used. In both cases, the basic idea of View Details
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by Manda Mahoney
- 03 Oct 2023
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Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
Yeah. Yeah. The [INAUDIBLE] Oprah, why don't you start by talking about how this all came to pass? And why you grew interested in Arthur's work? Winfrey: Well, this all came to pass, and I'm not saying this just because you're here, this all came to pass because I was...
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by HBS Staff
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
knowledge. We emphasize connections to the growing theoretical literature that gives personal plans a substantive role, but we conclude that more research is needed, especially on the latter two questions we cover. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
ChatGPT’s buzzy debut has made for a rough few months for Google. Close watchers of the tech giant say: It didn’t have to go this way. Essentially scooped by a competitor on its home turf, Google has scrambled to release its own...
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- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209113 The Home Depot: Leadership in Crisis Management Harvard Business School Case 309-055 Examines the challenges The Home Depot faced in the...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements
location that can be rapidly converted to be used by the crisis response team. Requirements include the ability to rapidly connect many lines of communication, to have access to external media (TV coverage), to provide access to crisis...
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by Michael Watkins
- 08 Mar 2021
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COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic
When COVID-19 first sent office employees home last year, many managers filled their teams’ calendars with online check-ins, drop-ins, and updates to make up for the loss of spontaneous interactions—often sinking morale and efficiency....
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by Kristen Senz
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
proliferation of wage labor, where someone in the family left home and went to a factory and worked for a wage. Interestingly, in most parts of the world, the original factory workers were women; they were the ones working in the early...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer
that CEOs take home versus average employee pay is taking on added importance in 2018, as public companies in the United States are mandated for the first time to disclose pay ratios between the CEO and employees. Harvard Business School...
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by Dina Gerdeman