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- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
research going on at Harvard Business School. Held each May on the HBS campus, the event provides the opportunity for a few faculty to share recent work with an audience of doctoral students, HBS staff members, and other professors. This...
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- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
technology at all but with the way you are collecting and using your data, experts say. Although getting your CRM program in order is an essential component of achieving customer loyalty, there's much more that you need to do....
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by Jean Ayers
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
It's a pittance in the West. A loan of only $500 to $1,200, however, can make all the difference for a man or woman eking out a living in the developing world. Just that much—the typical range of microfinance loans, according to Michael Chu, a poverty View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
painfully clear to me a number of years ago in Veraguas province, Panama, where I was working with students to help a radical bishop, Marcos McGrath, establish credit and marketing cooperatives. Local government experts who did not...
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by George C. Lodge
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
expert to her team, and started hiring staff from nail salons and department-store cosmetics counters. "It feels really good to have something you worked so hard for come to reality," she almost...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
How can online advertising fraud be detected and prevented? What should we look at, where should we look, and what methods and tools should we use? These questions are relevant to anyone who buys online advertising. According to HBS professor Ben Edelman, an View Details
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
Abstract—Google Flu Trends article of November 2008 heralded a new age for big data where it is possible to leverage the vast amount of data to speak for itself, without theory or expert knowledge of the subject matter. However, in a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
experts to discuss how researchers can impact a broader audience, by lending their scientific expertise to pressing social issues, current events, and public debates. The landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Europe just 18 months before as vice president, investor relations, but sees herself as a fine executive. Thus, she is undecided about taking a senior staff position. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
time. We examined a radical change in a recently acquired subsidiary of a U.S.-based global organization over a two-year period. With the aim to standardize communication across borders, the subsidiary changed its native working language from Spanish to English....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
performance, even after controlling for current performance, and that this relation is driven by the perceptions of middle management and professional staff rather than senior executives, hourly, or commissioned workers. Taken together,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
patterns of behavior, not the other way around," writes Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti, an expert on innovation, entrepreneurship, and operations. “The planning process we describe is going to surprise many...
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- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
executives in the core businesses, rather than ambitious young MBAs, should be assigned to growth initiatives; 3) Assembling the wrong team and staffing up prematurely. CEOs should focus on capabilities, not who's available, and staff up...
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Anna Secino
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2011. For the smaller US Airways, it was a chance to bulk up to compete on an equal footing with the big domestic carriers on the tarmac, United and Delta. In their articles below, Harvard Business School Professor Stuart...
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- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
person (who holds very little wealth) and at the median dollar (which is held by a rich person). Third, the survey is remarkably consistent across years, allowing meaningful comparisons between 2001 and 1989. Finally, the Federal Reserve Board View Details
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by Ann Cullen
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
Research Symposium, an annual event that allows HBS faculty members to highlight a variety of research findings to an audience of doctoral students, staff members, and other professors. This year’s symposium, held last week on the HBS...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
as dangerous as Power and others speculate. Based on two detailed case studies and 53 additional interviews with risk-management staff at five other major banks over 2001-2010, this paper shows that relentless risk measurement is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Behavior & Organization What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews By: Dobrescu, Loretti I., Michael Luca, and Alberto Motta Abstract—This paper investigates the determinants of expert reviews in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
The case describes an organization's use of the science of improvement to transform their process quality from below average to the top 10% in their industry. The case outlines the protagonist's strategy of developing internal experts who...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
difficult professional situations. Members can seek help through call centers and in-person meetings with accounting experts in the field to discuss how to best handle difficult situations. In addition, the Ethics Advisory Committee meets...
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Carmen Nobel