Big Line Or Big Clique Conjecture - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?

The line gets blurry for shoppers when retailers won't honor their online prices in-store. (Kwangmoozaa) While shopping for my 10-year-old daughter’s Halloween costume last October, I pulled out my smartphone and hopped online to see if... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

01 Jun 2024
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

his investments in Eastern Air Lines and what became McDonnell Douglas. He decided, hey, let’s have this HBS guy come clean up the files. My salary was $6,500 a year. And that began a 45-year relationship.” In the beginning: Venrock was... View Details

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

future may need to see more of it. It puts a lot of emphasis on the quality of the space itself. An old building looks dirty, no matter how clean it is. Design is going to be a big focus going forward; how can we use our tables View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

19 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

not to give? Then I try to explore ways to mitigate those excuses. This line of questioning can lead to a darker view of how generous people really are. But people are not always looking for excuses not to give. For instance, people often... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

got behind the wheel again. Not just one trailer, or two of them, or five, or a dozen, but hundreds, on one ship. During this setback in his life, when he almost lost his... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

08 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

negotiating too narrowly with those who have formal power and authority. Negotiation experts have a patriarchal name for a version of this classic—and avoidable—mistake: Decide-Announce-Defend or DAD. Along with gaining the full-throated... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction

30 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

their actions as being more in line with their values than they actually were. In recollecting how the talks went after the fact, Bazerman says negotiators often fail to see things from the other side’s perspective. Take the example of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

navigating from DVDs by mail to creating content. The venerable cereal company Kellogg has been shifting from breakfast food to snacks. McDonald says the big question is whether a company can use those moments to chart a path to improved... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

necessities of social distancing attenuate or alter the traditional organizational levers. Several CEOs observed: “Keeping spirits high in a sales environment. At the moment our sales force has to work twice as hard for a quarter of the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

08 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

innovations by single user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation projects. We analyze the design costs and architectures and communication costs associated with each model. We conclude that innovation by individual users... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

I've experienced first-hand the excitement and pain that come as companies with a few founders scale to hundreds or thousands of employees. At somewhere around 75 to 100 employees, running a business becomes more complicated, demanding... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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Tommaso Ruggeri

professor posed in class. As we went around the room, my friend Yasuhiko-san truly stole our hearts. Instead of talking about his passions or career goals, he wrote a heartwarming letter to his toddler who was experiencing the world... View Details

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

that the U.S. government should have bailed out Lehman Brothers. This is in line with participants' generally positive views for a role for government intervention in financial markets, particularly for the purpose of financial stability.... View Details

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Brandon Graves

Coming to HBS is like Entering a new world in which the words “not possible” or “no” don’t exist. HBS fosters an environment that constructively challenges my self-imposed limits and assumptions. Conversations with section mates and... View Details

19 Jan 2024
News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

seat on the board. But draw a line so that the siblings do not appoint their heirs to assume their board seats when the ownership transitions to the Cousin Consortium stage. The board—not the shareholders, the family View Details

22 Feb 2024
News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

amazing. I did it all perfectly. No regrets." And it was not the case. I read those journals and I could constantly read between the lines and see things I was missing, things I wasn't picking up on that were probably bothering my kids,... View Details

22 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

people. That’s a big transition that many people can’t make.” Source: Harvard Business School Working Knowledge It’s a problem that can permeate any layer of a business—a star performer is tapped to become a manager, then flops on the... View Details