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- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
All good managers understand the importance of making sure that every member of a team feels personally motivated and necessary throughout the workday, lest their work should stagnate and suffer. But what's the key to igniting creativity,...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact
and dispose of them. The circular economy uses what is already there, which saves on the extraction and processing piece, then keeps those materials in the system. If you can avoid both extraction and waste disposal costs, it can create significant margin growth for...
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- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
the promise to significantly change how we buy and pay for goods and service in the future. Could you elaborate on this? What impact do software platforms have for the consumer on the street? A: Software...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
Africa, consumer spending is estimated to reach US$1.4 trillion by that date. Maybe that global big picture is another good reason why the irrepressible Mittal is smiling these days.
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
chosen." In Down to Earth, Reinhardt draws on studies of companies in industries as diverse as energy and packaged consumer goods to illustrate approaches for reconciling shareholder value with environmental...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere by Christopher Meyer (MBA 1974) with Julia Kirby (Harvard Business Review Press) The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75 percent of the world’s output will View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
When the coronavirus pandemic led many brick-and-mortar retailers to close their doors, consumers turned to online shopping in record numbers—US ecommerce sales rose by 31.8 percent between the first and second quarter of 2020 to $211.5...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
would be stadium seating, but that's about it. It's remarkable. And not in a good way." Lopez, it seems, is just getting warmed up. "Can you imagine driving the same car in 2010 that you drove in 1977, with the same features? There's...
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- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
liability encourage the practice of "overly-safe" and expensive medicine, (9) providers have fragmented and often incomplete information, and (10) consumers either have too little information with which to make rational...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
process and convince companies to consider the human cloud? The Answers: Seems like a good mix of broad PR and market education, together with high-value customer selling, will be required. The incubators and startup competitions are...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
Famed designer Donna Karan's keynote closed the Retail & Luxury Goods Club's annual conference, but some of the 400 attendees wanted more: Karan reportedly stuck around to chat with students for more than an hour and a half. Former US...
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Casey Gerald
book of second-year EC colleagues. When he wanted to know more about consumer goods in Asia, he found an expert on retailing in Japan through the Retail & Luxury Goods...
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- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When the Netflix series Geek Girl debuted this summer, it quickly became the second most-watched show globally on the platform. Based on the young adult book series by author Holly Smale about...
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Reuben Mark
When Mark took over in 1984, the consumer goods giant was in the midst of trying to reinvent itself. The company had grown tremendously in the 70s through a series of less than stellar acquisitions and one...
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Personal Care & Home Products
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
But China will not become a land without farmers or rural industries overnight, and those hundreds of millions of people will need to access the social safety net that allows them to consume if the domestic market is to continue to grow...
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- 21 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Going Negative in Political Advertising
For more details, see Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes For Better Democracy by John Quelch and Katherine Jocz (Harvard Business Press 2008). Choice sells, in politics and in the supermarket. Distinct choices on the shelf attract our...
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by John Quelch
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Ann Chao
Accepted into HBS’ 2+2 program, Ann completed her college education then worked as a consultant for a German firm in Beijing. “Nuclear power, automotive, steel distribution, financial services – I got a good view of many different kinds...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
institutions. These institutions represent powerful constraints on the ability of the government to fund reforms, of firms to write contracts, and of citizens to enforce their basic rights. Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Better Care at Lower Cost
As the opening presenter at the two-day conference, sponsored by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, Christensen made the case for how disruptive innovation could give consumers access to simpler, less expensive, quality care....
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