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- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
Group to add healthier products to its lineup. When soft drink sales declined in 2010, shareholders criticized PepsiCo’s execution. Nooyi responded by beefing up PepsiCo’s marketing and strengthening her leadership team—but held firm to... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
1989 about service in the auto industry, Ford Motor Co.: Dealer Sales and Service, puts it best: “Nothing much has changed over 25 years. The experience is still generally awful.” Sure, there have been pockets of customer-service... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
integration typically needs to occur across interfaces that drive raw performance—for example, design and assembly. Once a product's basic performance is more than good enough, competition forces firms to compete on convenience or... View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
When COVID-19 forced companies to send employees home two years ago, newly remote workers largely reconnected on two collaboration apps: Slack and Microsoft Teams. The pandemic propelled Slack beyond its core following in the technology... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
challenges facing Dr. John Noseworthy, president and CEO, in implementing a long-term strategy for the growth of the Mayo Clinic-a leading academic medical center with a reputation for excellence in tertiary and quaternary health care. The case highlights the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
Streaming accounts for about 85 percent of today’s music consumption, but sales of vinyl records have grown steadily over the past decade, owing to their rediscovery by members of Gen Z who view them as a timeless medium that offers... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
development—such as case discussions, lectures, simulations, coaching sessions, live projects, etc.—in terms of their potential to develop executives for the future. We then examine the impact of the forces of digital disruption—the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
With very clean emissions, 60 and 70 MPG fuel consumption, and lots of power, diesel compacts would provide stiff competition to hybrids. But GM has just lost its ability to develop small cars with the sale of its Opel subsidiary to... View Details
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
Wal-Mart's domestic sales volume, U.S. consumers save on the order of $18 billion per year. And because Wal-Mart forces its competitors to charge lower prices as well, this figure is a fraction of the... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
watched over carefully. A strong corporate culture, which coexisted with numerous subcultures, helped turn Unilever's management into the central binding force of the company, preventing it from becoming a "conglomerate" even at... View Details
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
In the spring of 2005, media outlets from Gizmodo to Good Morning America were buzzing about Clocky, an alarm clock that jumped off the nightstand and rolled away chirping and beeping, forcing its owner to get out of bed to turn it off... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
more volatile; there are spikes of trading on any news. It is important for investors to realize that the stock markets in the first years of the 21st century are not just down, but down in a particular way, as a result of the new forces... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
overconfidence. Exaggerating synergies and ignoring integration costs Synergy is the idea that once merged, the value of two companies will be greater than the sum of the values of each individual company. On the surface, the idea of synergies isn’t unreasonable. For... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
increased at an impressive pace in the early 2000s even though Internet sales in the United States grew dramatically. Retail sales advanced from $2.87 trillion to almost $4 trillion between 1999 and 2007.... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
filing for bankruptcy in the courts often results in a forced wind-down of the business. Management is replaced by a trustee or administrator (who is often an accountant or lawyer by training), the firm’s assets are sold off, and proceeds... View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
established companies that didn’t see them coming. Are companies looking at disruption the wrong way? Danielle Kost: In your book, you argue that technology isn’t the main force hobbling many companies today—it’s changing customer needs... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
seems to support this logic. First, consumers themselves report a greater sensitivity (or awareness) of price than of quantity. Second, in tracking the sale of snack foods we found that consumers reacted greatly to periodic changes in... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
and their health.” · In a memo to employees, Morgan Stanley’s CEO, James Gorman, wrote, “While long term we can’t be sure how this will play out, we want to commit to you that there will not be a reduction in force at Morgan Stanley in... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
percentage points. For some consumers, the bulbous bellies, protruding needles, and nasty teeth changed their habits; as soda sales dropped, bottled water sales rose from 24.9 percent to 28.1 percent.... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
Corporate budgeting is a joke, and everyone knows it. It consumes a huge amount of executives' time, forcing them into endless rounds of dull meetings and tense negotiations. It encourages managers to lie and cheat, lowballing targets and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen