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02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

series on AIDS in Africa and how pharmaceutical companies should think about the issues and how they might respond. Sandra Sucher has done a really wonderful case on Gleevec, which is a drug for treating chronic myeloid leukemia. She is one View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

As a professor of decision making and negotiation, I often receive unsolicited phone calls from relatives, friends, and acquaintances seeking my advice on consumer matters such as negotiating for a house, bidding on eBay, and investing in... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

01 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

times that of other code posted at the site. To IBM's credit, this surprising level of external interest triggered an internal reconsideration of the software code. We know it... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical

31 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World

be displayed. Making Niche Profitable Zhu's interest in how different revenue models affect content, consumers, and companies generates a number of interesting "what ifs." For example, what if a company, as a means View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

growing a business, for better or for worse. “I tell my students that they'll get a better framework in this 14-week course than I got in 14 years at the school of hard knocks.” Chester A. "Chet" Huber (HBS MBA '79) says the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

doesn't manufacture—computer memory systems. It makes money by licensing its patented designs to other companies, who manufacture computer memory and sell it to computer makers. Over the course of the 1990s,... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

23 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

compatible versions of the platform. This article examines factors that favor proprietary versus shared models when designing new platforms, then explains how management challenges differ for proprietary and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

around the world could improve responses to the next global financial catastrophe. Work done recently by dozens of Harvard Business School students under Alberto Cavallo, the Edgerley Family Associate Professor View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

17 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

committed to what is truly important and a source of core value, for both themselves and their businesses. They also understood what they could and could not control. “Perhaps I have gotten stronger through... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

The Subcommittee: My name is Benjamin Edelman. I am an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, where my research focuses on the design of electronic marketplaces, including View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

06 Oct 2003
What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

too long a period of time for the disruptive growth engine to function. Can the appropriate culture be created and rewarded and the process—or as Patel terms it, the "pathways" —be designed and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

As economic turmoil continues, many companies are reconsidering their strategies with an eye toward going lean and slashing prices. And that might work for a few companies—but very few. Instead, companies should compete "on the basis View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

27 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

"The best-laid schemes of mice and men go often awry." - Robert Burns, 1785 An entrepreneur starts a company with plans to go public, but ultimately accepts a low-ball acquisition offer from a competitor. A newlywed husband... View Details

Keywords: Re: Francesca Gino

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

competition. Comparison Quote is their clever service design that takes advantage of their data analysis superiority. They can get at the true 'riskiness' of a customer in a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

that is highly valued by them, but doesn't cost you a lot of money. For example, allocate more services to good customers. This could mean a designated line at the deli counter, or a ten items or less... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

orderly introduction of new talent into an organization, perhaps by periodically identifying and letting the lowest performers go, was applauded. One of the comments reflects this view: "What is really... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

make a distinction in meaning, it is usually in reference to levels in a hierarchy. People at the very top provide "leadership"—whatever that is—or at least they are supposed to. People in the middle do the "management," again with little clarity about what that means.... View Details

Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter

28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

shows. Innovation: A select number of companies shift to a more advanced innovative stage by integrating sustainability into the core of the business in ways that transform the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

September 2024
Case

Faena: Magic in Mid-Miami Beach

By: Robin Greenwood, Denise Han, Dave Habeeb and Ruth Page

The link to this multimedia case should be provided to students in advance as preparation for classroom case discussion. This multimedia case follows real estate developer Alan Faena as he expanded his luxury development business from Argentina to the United States.... View Details

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