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- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Credit: Steven Zimmerman/Wikipedia Commons Google software engineer James Damore’s ten-page manifesto excoriating his employer for its diversity initiatives incited a major controversy in August about...
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by Bill George
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
Nitin Nohria, and Rakesh Khurana, 507-524. Sage Publications, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book235126 Competitive Strategy for Open Source Software...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
Sebastian Turullols was reporting on the young company's free cash and how to invest it. Former 3Com CEO Bill Krause responded with a cautionary tale: "Many years before, a CFO wanted to invest his...
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
report beliefs closer to those that favor the workings of a free market. Examples include materialist and individualist beliefs (such as the belief that money is important for happiness or the belief that...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
to top dairy brands in China while selling a small volume of dairy products under its own premium brand Wondermilk. Besides running his own dairy farms, Shao had been providing free training in dairy farm management to industry peers,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
the scope of work is so broad that the possibility of cross-infection is monumental. If you go into a general hospital, there's no way they can keep those walls and floors clean and View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
Review 87, no. 4 (April 2009) No abstract is available at this time. Purchase the article: http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2009/04/how-to-market-in-a-downturn/ar/1 Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
executed by bankers, managers, and investors during the 1990s—trading foreign stocks and bonds, borrowing in foreign currencies—had been illegal in many countries only decades, View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
of sugary drinks. Four well-powered, incentive-compatible experiments evaluate two possible ways in which firms might comply with such a policy: bundles (i.e., dividing the contents of oversized cups into two regulation-sized cups) and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
consumer." The Personal Book software program is one tool that helps Nordstrom's sales staff do this. In it, they can record personal information about their customers, including size and color...
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- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209036 Symbian, Google & Apple in the Mobile Space (A) Harvard Business School Case 909-055 Symbian, maker of a leading mobile smartphone operating system, faces new competition from Google View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
quickly to execute the strategy. The firm has committed $1b in investment, building out a new software center in California and a commercial sales function at headquarters to deploy the new products View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
make/buy/partner decisions and membership access. This case examines the strategic and technological issues related to managing SAP's thriving ecosystem of user communities, View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
variety, process flexibility and even the path of industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software industry. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment, in that we observe products...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Processing up to 8,000 orders per day, the robots help make Quiet Logistics a highly efficient firm and free its workers to complete additional value-added services such as handwritten thank-you notes. The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers...
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- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
resource management, which emphasized job rotation and minimal hierarchy. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/812134-PDF-ENG RentJuice Thomas R.Eisenmann and Liz KindHarvard Business School Case 811-069...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
new collaborative efforts with government agencies, including the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission. Both the private and public initiatives at industry rationalization challenged...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
data and how they go about monetizing it? Or is it free reign and whatever they don’t capitalize on, someone else quickly will? Shih: I’d be more in the latter camp. I remember...
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- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
and $12 billion, which equates to between 1.3% and 8.7% of the stock of prepackaged software in private fixed investment in the United States and...
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Sean Silverthorne