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- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration. “No wonder these businesses end up receiving rave reviews and loyal customers.” "If a US company that ranked 50th today jumped to 40th next year, its return on... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
room for improvement” in the process, Buell says. “I’m happy with the car, but it was a roller coaster of emotions going through the experience.” What’s the problem here? The professors agree that the... View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
“overfitting” a statistical model, ensuring the model hits every historical data point and thus making it overly specific and lacking room for future variables. Another problem can develop with miscalibration, failing to consider whether... View Details
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
Bangladesh, and Pakistan, it’s not going to work. It’s also a problem if you build systems where nobody who has lived the experience is in the room. You can end up looking at the data and not understanding... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
"Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you, and I'mma let you finish, but [fellow nominee] Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time." Millions of viewers were turned off by his impulsive bullying, and Carter and Lady Gaga, both... View Details
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 25 Oct 2010
- HBS Case
Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market
students have to answer as they make their way through the Tesco case? A: There are two questions that students must wrestle with. First, are Tesco's problems in the United States a result of poor strategy or poor execution? The latter... View Details
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
using combinations of four integers, about 4 billion possible combinations. The problem: Internet growth is so dramatic that potential IPv4 addresses are running short on supply. A new standard called IPv6 will solve the problem with... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
individuals responsible for the actual purchase decision do not want to absorb the career risk of overpaying. In our personal lives, if we overpay for a product, we suffer some marginal consequence. In business, it can literally end the... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
of books and articles published about M&A, no one has ever tried to link strategic intent to the implications for integration that result.— HBS Professor Joseph Bower I will turn now to the problems that arise in different types of... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
holds a three-day meeting to discuss them and then makes its decisions. Of course, at the other end of the spectrum, you have these 200-page budget books that get produced, requiring months of meetings." In some instances, the budget... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
decide what has to give" when there is a loss of staff, says Parlance Training's Parlett. "So everyone plays corporate hot potato, passing the problem down the line until someone ends up as the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
You,” in which Nicholas Kristof wrote, “Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don’t matter in today’s great debates.” Or the 2015 Chronicle of Higher... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
understanding of why Davies failed. Q: The crisis section we are excerpting at the end of this interview is about coping with a sudden denial of service attack. It's also about Barton navigating around conflicting advice while preparing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for General Motors? Or are those just headlights from an oncoming train? Among Harvard Business School faculty, it depends on whom you ask. The carmaker—home to such storied brands as Cadillac,... View Details
- 20 Jan 2022
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic
We’re approaching year three of the COVID-19 pandemic, with no clear end in sight. During this time, companies have had to make difficult decisions about whether employees should work from home, wear masks in the office, and get... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
School Professor Julie Battilana. The crux of the problem is that CEOs and other leaders often get such a power trip that they lack empathy and humility, which inhibits their ability to understand and respect what their employees value.... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 17 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Managers Stifle Creativity
The slate of companies going public this year— Pinterest, Slack Technologies, and Uber, to name a few—should silence anyone who doubts the power of a bold idea. After all, one seemingly crazy brainstorm can up end an entire industry,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
to get a "job" done. This note details the thought process and the methodology behind a jobs-based segmentation and provides numerous examples. It highlights three levels in the architecture of a job: 1) What is the fundamental job or View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details