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- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
techniques for improving operating decisions during retail store liquidations and by demonstrating the performance of these methods in the field. February 2015 Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective Making the Business View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
Great Training Robbery, a working paper based on case studies conducted by Beer, Magnus Finnstrom, and Derek Schrader, as well as decades of research on training effectiveness, will be the focus of a Harvard Business Review article this... View Details
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
education; provide case studies showing how leading MBA programs have begun reinventing themselves for the better; and offer concrete ideas for how business schools can surmount the challenges that come with reinvention, including... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
liquid," and the associated "deep metaphor," in this case "resource." They claim that just seven deep metaphors—balance (equilibrium), transformation (changing states or status), journey (as in life), container... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Veterans in the MBA Program: Profiles of Service
the case method, research, and life as an HBS student, planting a seed of opportunity that he came back to following his service in the Marine Corps. Born and raised in Hampton, VA, Scott grew up surrounded by the military—with Langley... View Details
- 03 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Physicians Off the Beaten Path
fall into medicine not really without thinking about alternative career paths. It becomes a cycle, because there are not many examples of people who went outside the traditional path to inspire others,” says Youssef. “We want to expose them and highlight successful... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
Skilling as COO. Putting aside the matter of business models and controls, "The main story," he said, is a case of "ethical drift." If you look at a lot of the fraud cases, before fraud there was terminal incompetence.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
benefits are hard to see.” Receiving information about available products is one benefit to consumers. In the case of government, the marketing scholars who attended the Choice Symposium contend that machine learning will soon augment or... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 05 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?
Ron Johnson's latest undertaking has the makings of a perfect business school case study. As the new CEO of J.C. Penney he's charged with transforming an aging department store chain with lagging market share. The sweeping plan begun... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
structure. Whether these actions will be sufficient remains to be seen. WeWork clearly is not advancing its case from a position of strength. What is the difference and is it warranted? A dive into the numbers Are the reasons cited above... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Download the paper: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/361/7/649 Cases & Course MaterialsAlacra, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 810-012 In 2009, the CEO of Alacra, a venture-backed information... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
have no direct affiliation with E Ink. By contrast, Hagiu and Wright present examples that fulfill all of the MSP requirements. In the case of eBay, both buyers and sellers must create accounts with the online marketplace; that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
or isn't attractive. One other danger of people working primarily with those they like: They may simply have a good time and get nothing done. An experienced venture capitalist recalls the case of a very capable manager who hired... View Details
Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50433 Harvard Business School Case 515-072 onefinestay Miranda Cresswell, marketing director, and Greg Marsh, founder and CEO of onefinestay, were grappling with branding and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
School, is an expert on global supply chain and co-wrote an HBS case study, revised in 2019, on Dollar General, one of the largest dollar store operators, shortly before it was acquired by New York investment firm KKR. Shih discusses the... View Details
- 28 Jun 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and their Implications for Economic Performance
Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio & Sergio G. Lazzarini
- 2012
- Chapter
Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM
By: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein and Rebecca M. Henderson
We address a longstanding question about the causes of creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Competition; Information Technology; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Relationships; Information Technology Industry
Bresnahan, Timothy F., Shane Greenstein, and Rebecca M. Henderson. "Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM." In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
both economically risky and a source of reduced purchasing power. This attitude has its roots in the early postwar lending environment, in which loans were seen to be beneficial only if they were accompanied by strong government protections. These View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
United States. In recent years, however, this centralized approach to the collection and analysis of adverse events through doctor-initiated case reports has been superseded by innovative, though episodic, pharmacoepidemiological studies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace