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- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
digital form, stored in this platform, and therefore ready to be transported in digital form. WK: Journeying from one business model to another is a formidable leadership challenge, especially in an industry... View Details
- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
The dirty little secret of advertising agencies is that much of their work is pure guesswork. Companies spread out their advertising budgets across channels—a little bit of TV, some print media, a few billboards—and wait for customers to... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
Should managers lead innovation or get out of the way? It's not an either/or decision. Executives of some great innovative companies—Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg—are active participants in creation, getting their hands dusty in the View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 18 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Brand China Can Succeed
Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.As the British nineteenth century commentator John Ruskin... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
Apple Computer knows how to make headlines. The company is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh and is enjoying the fruits of its launch into the digital entertainment business. In its December quarter, Apple sold 730,000... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
might serve the study of consumer behavior. An HBS professor since 1991, Zaltman's work actually cuts across a number of boundaries. He's a co-director (with Stephen M. Kosslyn, Professor of psychology at Harvard University) of the Mind... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
massive shift —of the same order of magnitude as the diffusion of globalization, the mechanization of agriculture, the widespread adoption of computers or the diffusion of the Internet and the digitization of almost everything. It will... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
lot of work done and force themselves to learn something they wouldn’t otherwise have learned,” says Wu. “It’s actually a really collaborative environment.” Hackathons benefit companies, too Technology diffusion helps more than... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
the General Management Program at Harvard Business School. In the discussion, conducted last August in Mumbai, Kapur reflects on some 50 years in the advertising industry, starting in the “Mad Men” era of the 1960s, experiencing the dawn of the View Details
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
extra boost in development. A new tool by Harvard and MIT researchers promises to do just that, with the help of machine learning and the biggest library of urban images on the Internet: Google Street View. By using digital tools,... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
investment. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/ships_qje_2014.pdf Working Papers Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract— Architectural capabilities are an important... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
turn, winning breeds greater confidence and raises the company to an even higher level. Building organizational confidence, especially in turnaround situations where organizations have been on losing streaks, is the work of leaders.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
Vulnerabilities don’t work on a calendar. Cybercriminals show up when they show up.” You Might Also Like: How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader... View Details
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
COVID-19 is claiming an unexpected career toll among scientific researchers, and particularly on women, new research shows. If you are female, have young children, or work in a lab, you are more likely to feel the career-crunching effects... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
transformed life and work in the second half of the twentieth century. I chronicle the evolution of the new high-tech industries from their beginnings by the first-movers until the end of the twentieth century. I do this by focusing on... View Details
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
layoffs lead to mistakes that undermine companies’ corporate goals. Doing a layoff for the right reason is not just smart strategically, it’s smart organizationally, since employees are more likely to stay engaged and work through the... View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
and digital group, Sogefi, an auto component manufacturer and KOS, a home-care and hospital manager. Rodolfo had spent his entire career in CIR Group, which he had managed as CEO for 20 years. Edoardo, a cardiologist, had never View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
from digital platforms have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification and enable new measures of how neighborhoods change in close to real time. Combining data on businesses from Yelp with data on gentrification from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
intimacy, and community offered by direct-to-consumer marketing will have an impact on every industry and intermediary," Deighton predicted. Supermarkets may have "dodged a bullet" for now, but direct-to-consumer marketing is here to stay, Deighton says.... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
proteins at work in the business of life. "The book of life" that made dramatic headlines last year—and was really a first draft of the human genome sequence—is destined to change and challenge medicine, ethics, and business far... View Details