Filter Results
:
(744)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,904)
- People (9)
- News (670)
- Research (744)
- Events (6)
- Multimedia (47)
- Faculty Publications (288)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,904)
- People (9)
- News (670)
- Research (744)
- Events (6)
- Multimedia (47)
- Faculty Publications (288)
Sort by
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
women break through the glass ceiling. "If this solution is working, it's moving at a glacial pace," said Michelle Duguid, an assistant professor at Washington University's Olin Business School who conducted research with Denise Lewin...
View Details
Keywords:
by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
Want to be different? Change your world, not your tactics. As HBS professor Youngme Moon argues in Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd, competition too often breeds conformity. Yet there is plenty of space for adventurous companies keen to View Details
Keywords:
by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
80% of the wineries in the U.S. break even or lose money. An even greater percentage lose money on an economic basis (i.e., after a charge for the cost of equity). Tegan Passalacqua is a successful, young, Californian winemaker who...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
trusted by consumers," Quelch says. "Can a health insurer counter out of the mold and break the standard prejudice against trusting insurers to develop a closer relationship with the end consumer?" Device companies: Device...
View Details
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911406-PDF-ENG Social Strategy Exercise Mikołaj Jan PiskorskiHarvard Business School Exercise 710-472 This note outlines the process of designing a social strategy. Purchase this...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
information, unforeseen issues, and tactics that you did not anticipate. In negotiation, patience often generates significant dividends. To avoid falling back on System 1 thinking, structure a process that allows you to rethink or restrategize. You might schedule View Details
Keywords:
by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 22 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage
got the output of many extra workers for free. Economists have since shown that Ricardo's result can be generalized to as many countries and to as many goods as one wants to include. Although we can certainly specify conditions under which mutual gains from trade View Details
Keywords:
Re: David A. Moss
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
in the United States and Europe. Within this new scenario, three groups play unique roles: policymakers who identify and use groups for support; companies that understand the interests of diffuse groups and tap them to reap larger profits or View Details
Keywords:
by Kim Girard
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
superior," noting that this may be the case only when there is a "threat of widespread panic" or "when a crisis breaks down an entire system (like the banking system)." Elaine Scheye would limit intervention only...
View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
The financial field may be permanently changed by the explosive ups and downs of the tech sector, but old standards of quality and planning will still make or break new businesses, HBS professor Howard H. Stevenson said. In his keynote...
View Details
Keywords:
by Carrie Levine
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
communication levels in their paper, “Communication Within Firms: Evidence From CEO Turnovers,” published in Management Science. And when corporate communication breaks down, it can lead to confusion and stress, low morale, delayed...
View Details
Keywords:
by Ami Albernaz
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
established, prestigious retailers. Breaking Into Department Stores How was this young, little-known company, without a large advertising budget, to break into specific prestigious stores and thereby use...
View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
constraints? A: It's extremely difficult to have enough self-awareness as a company to understand how your thinking is framed by your previous history. How do you break out of that if you need to? Are there ways to do it without bringing...
View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
incentive to zone restrictively for housing." Not surprisingly, affordable housing has also become a growing problem in the suburbs. Often devoting little thought to housing availability in outlying communities, companies have relocated due to generous tax View Details
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
stop paying attention to a commercial is obviously very important," Teixeira says. "This is the first research that breaks viewer attention into milliseconds—what viewers see, what causes their eyes to move to particular...
View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
assessment from the solving phase. In most cases, innovators engage simultaneously in definition/solution/assessment stages and iteratively define the problem and its solution. Open innovation breaks this vertical integration and forces...
View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
adapt, despite the intentions of senior management. The structures, processes, and behaviors defined in the book are designed to break inertia, and maintain strategic alignment in times of change. Q: To plan or not to plan? Your own...
View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
(New York: HarperCollins, 2001) Amy C. Edmondson, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley & Sons, 2019) Francesca Gino, Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
boot camp, asking participants to break into pairs and have a conversation about the Indian wedding industry. “Everyone in India has experience with the wedding industry,” Koning says. “It’s a giant market and growing fast.” Before the...
View Details
Keywords:
by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living....
View Details
Keywords:
by Bill George