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- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
experience on the Internet. The site is set up for e-commerce, but the company views it more as a way to build its brand: Customers can download video clips, watch footage of extreme sports, or learn about an upcoming free concert at one...
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- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
accurately, your hologram or avatar) can, among other things, go to school, go to work, play games, watch concerts, and browse stores. For Facebook, or now Meta, its dominance in social networking combined with a Meta-based strategy is an...
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by James Heskett
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
sovereign debt? Judging by other restructurings over the past four decades, Argentina is an anomaly, a case worth watching but unlikely to set any lasting legal or economic precedent. Ongoing litigation is predicated on what the Second...
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by Laura Alfaro
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
The idea seemed feasible because Mends had once met Winfrey through a personal connection at college. "I thought it was a fabulous possibility for several reasons," Koehn explained. "One, based on intuition, was that there's something very powerful about...
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- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
early-period paintings, for instance) are subject to the pressures of supply and demand. This leaves little opportunity for newer investors to buy low and watch the value of their pieces grow over time, especially when the supply of a...
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- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
team, the courts blocked a settlement on default for several months while they watched their position weaken; last year Argentina's court-appointed mediator officially ruled that the country was in default. The experience gave the...
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- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
management structures. So casino hosts in some units are more tightly watched than others, allowing the researchers to evaluate results in both loosely and tightly monitored environments. In what appears to be an industry standard, casino...
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- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
values were reflected in the zaibatsu and other enterprise groups, which paternalistically watched over their affiliated companies. Within the organization, such values were evident in the widespread norm of lifetime employment...
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- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
Swiss Mechanical Watchmaking, 1970-2008 By: Raffaelli, Ryan Abstract—In 1983, 14 years after the introduction of the battery-powered quartz watch, mechanical watches and the Swiss watchmakers who built them were predicted to be obsolete...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
keep close watch over them. In 2015, Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, highlighted the problem. “A local food safety problem can rapidly become an international emergency,” she wrote in a statement....
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- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
a catastrophe. And, in both of these contexts, we've probably gone way longer than we should have to address them.” Visit the HBS Business and Environment Initiative website to watch videos from the conference. About the Author Danielle...
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- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
five-year-old Jeff Bezos, who watched Neil Armstrong take humankind’s first steps on the moon, an experience Bezos said “deeply imprinted” him. It fostered his interest in and admiration for the space sector and the work NASA was doing...
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- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
footballs should be.” “I don’t think this is about football at all. I think this is about human nature and organizations and performance” As Iansiti watched the AFC title game in January 2015, and the ensuing uproar, he was hooked. As an...
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- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
sound like beginners. After playing for a minute, all the expert guitarists watched a YouTube video clip of a true beginner, who struggled to play a series of chords. They each wrote a few sentences of advice for the beginner, and then...
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- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
Retail Inventory: Managing the Canary in the Coal Mine! By: Gaur, Vishal, Saravanan Kesavan, and Ananth Raman Abstract—Retail inventory is a statistic that is closely watched by retailers as well as their investors, lenders, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
for them to start making great products again? A: I would guess so. I'm not a car person, but yes. I think that's probably what appealed to them about Mulally because everybody was singing the praises of Airbus and then, five years later, Boeing has recaptured its...
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- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
watches, especially the stainless-steel sports models, had dramatically increased, resulting in a supply shortage worldwide. This case study examines the high-end watch industry and discusses an organization’s objective and related...
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- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
So you really watched your step and were careful about what you said.” Can’t you just imagine it? Headquarters vs. the engineers, engineering vs. manufacturing, manufacturing vs. sales, etc. leading to Boeing vs. customers and the public....
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- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
successful. But even as he watched people use the book, they still expressed constant doubts about how well they were performing. "People do not do a good job learning from their experience," he says. "Some have gotten better about...
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by Michael Blanding