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- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume or number of projects completed by a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
opposed to Microsoft where the technical people rule. In some respects, Apple's experience with Jobs has parallels with Starbucks' history with Howard Schultz, also a hands-on, detail-oriented leader who created the innovative concept of... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
the concept that the person who “owned” the final purchaser actually could control the supply process all the way up the line, by controlling the shelf space. From that evolved the concept of private... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
opened my eyes to what one could do.” Straight shooter: “My first assignment at Xerox was to help take the company into China. When the chairman announced in the press what we were doing, I chastised him and said that was not something he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
The concept of a private-equity board’s “long-term” being beyond the next quarter fails my giggle test, however. In the public perception, even the reputable buyout shops, such as Carlyle, Blackstone, and KKR, exist to reorganize, to... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
profitability of a vertically integrated monopoly. We then use our model to compare open and closed standards regimes, to understand how commoditization affects a cluster, to determine the relative profits of platform firms and firms that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
concept of forward integration into paper in the Brazilian context. Purchase this supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709416 Given Imaging Ltd. - First We Take Manhattan, Then We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Prevention-focused and older individuals—who engage in processing that shifts reference points to less extreme instances—show a decreased sensitivity to variance. We discuss the marketing implications of preferences for variance. Adding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
Tushman and senior lecturer Mike Roberts, opens with Jamie Houghton (MBA 1962), the great-great-grandson of the company’s founder, taking over the corner office of his family’s firm. After a grooming process begun at a Corning lightbulb... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- Blog
Inside the Learning: How Faculty Prepare for Class
whose voice would be interesting to hear on a given topic. I also try to consider the class content from a participant's perspective—if I were thinking about a given concept for the first time, what questions would I have? Of course, this... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
ambitious and bold—both criteria that have framed Royster’s career from the start. His initial break with convention occurred after his first year in college, when he took a year off from Duke to work retail near his hometown, in Newton, Massachusetts. “At 19, I helped... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
they cannot spend on marketing the way their competitors do. The case invites students to explore an unusual business model in both concept and execution. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/609106-PDF-ENG Pfizer:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
a greater awareness of what the concept of privacy entails, like Plato's prisoners discovering that they had been observing and talking about shadows as opposed to the objects themselves." The tone of these responses raises several... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
The New Venture Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative open to all students and alumni who are launching new business and social impact ventures. This year,... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
new community was faced with how best to construct the vertical and attract a sufficiently large audience. While the model seemed highly scalable because each vertical used the same core technology, every sector had its unique features. In the fall of 2007, executives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
Wheeler has incorporated concepts and techniques from other arenas where circumstances are in flux and information is imperfect—from military combat and medical diagnosis to improvisational theater and jazz. Hitting The Right Notes "There... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
Penney's, but will only buy clothing at specialty stores. Sören Petsch, finance manager at Sears, Roebuck & Co., said encouraging customers who buy from one category at their stores to buy from more departments is a key challenge for department stores. "I... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
Final-Offer Arbitration Challenge Gives Negotiators a Valuable New Tool By: Bazerman, Max H., and Daniel Kahneman Abstract—In legal disputes, contested insurance claims, and similarly adversarial negotiations, one party is likely to open... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
interested in supporting the project.” Spangler — whose multifaceted career spans banking, construction, real estate, and higher education — chose Class Day 1998 to announce that he and his wife, Meredith, had pledged their support for a new student center. Translating... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
access by expanding fellowships for those with financial need. It opened new international research centers and offices, launched the Harvard-wide i-Lab ecosystem, completed a $1.4 billion capital campaign, and enhanced the campus through... View Details