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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
Harris, of Playing2Win Technology can also be used to bridge the asset gap and drive down the cost of programs designed to help low-income families, said HBS professor Peter Tufano (HBS MBA '84), who teaches...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Getting Known by the Company you Keep: Publicizing the Qualifications and Associations of Skilled Employees to Indicate Producer Quality (with Peter Roberts) Under second review at Industrial and Corporate Change.
In a second paper with Peter Roberts (Emory... View Details
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
several options)? “Opportunists are the people who always ask, 'What's in it for me?'” Asking the question whom do you serve? is a powerful vector on which to build a useful typology of leadership. Based on this idea, I have constructed a six-level Purpose-Driven Model...
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by Mitch Maidique
- 14 Dec 2007
- Op-Ed
When Your Product Becomes a Commodity
profits? If you've heard it, you've probably wondered if it was just a convenient excuse or if the manager had a valid point. The truth is, even when a raw material has no value added and quality standards are set by law or the industry,...
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by John Quelch
- 05 Mar 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?
Comments were replete with advice to leaders regarding honesty, candor, and an optimistic bias. Zack Allen advised, "Honesty is the best policy (but it) does not mean being a nay-sayer or a wet blanket." Peter Bowie suggested...
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by Jim Heskett
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
Judging by the most-read articles and faculty working papers over the last year, our readers continue to be fascinated by the emergence of social networks and their potential impacts on business and...
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- 05 Sep 2008
- What Do You Think?
Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?
Summing Up Is the case method gaining relevance over time? Case method instruction may not be perfect, but to paraphrase Winston Churchill's view of democracy (and Sameer Kamat's response to the column), it's better than the alternatives. At least that's the impression...
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- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
in his recent book, some are less fungible than others. Germany was cited by Peter Sebregondi as a country that has pursued an enlightened strategy toward manufacturing, through its continued support of an...
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- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
thousands of facilities of publicly listed firms, Heese identified the towns where the local newspaper presses permanently came to a halt. Heese found that after a newspaper shuts down, violations at publicly listed companies in the paper’s circulation area increased...
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by Avery Forman
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
accompanied by lower inflation and interest rates—that justify deficit spending to produce both economic growth and social programs designed to improve our quality of life and reduce social inequality” (JohnfrmClevelnd). Or, it prompts...
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by James Heskett
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
diagnoses. Others advocated tax and non-tax solutions. The case against hasty change was made by Dave: "Market based capitalism is the greatest driving force of prosperity in the world today, but if we forget this and marginalize it...
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by James Heskett
- June 1994 (Revised December 1997)
- Case
Safeway, Inc.'s Leveraged Buyout (C): Media Response
Focuses exclusively on the controversy by presenting the media responses to the LBO and its aftermath, including full text of Faludi's interview with Safeway CEO Peter Magowan, and her subsequent Journal article.
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Wruck, Karen, and Steve-Anna Stephens. "Safeway, Inc.'s Leveraged Buyout (C): Media Response." Harvard Business School Case 294-141, June 1994. (Revised December 1997.)
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and...
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by Michael Blanding
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?
and even foolhardy. Some in tech suggest there’s more of a “move fast, break things” strategy to it than perhaps meets the eye. How does it look to you? Wu: We shouldn’t be surprised by the management style that Musk is taking to Twitter....
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- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
that started a fuel burn 11 hours too early into the mission, using up so much fuel that the capsule could not reach the proper altitude. According to a reported comment by Jim Chilton, senior vice president of the space and launch...
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- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
that premise to a new level, opening a four-story, 22,000-square-foot boutique on Fifth Avenue designed by architect Peter Marino that features details such as flashing LED screens and a staircase made of...
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- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
European market overseas, and (3) concentrate on designing and producing new products for new and existing markets. There were several minority opinions, however. ASGMark commented, “The very idea of moving manufacturing of an American icon overseas, especially after...
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- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is...
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by Christian Ketels
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
all chairs sold in the world in the 1990s to hardly any production today. The workforce dropped by 44 percent from 2006 to 2012. One firm has succeeded by moving downstream, establishing a global network of...
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- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
reading Toxic Politics by Yanzhong Huang, which is subtitled China’s Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State. To feel better about what can be done about global warming, I recommend The Hidden Life of Trees...
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by Kathryn Haviland