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- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
adding more and more variety to your cereal offerings. Finally, there may be tremendous competitive pressure to expand your assortment. If your competition comes out with new sizes or flavors, you feel you have to keep pace. The end... View Details
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
Summing Up Where are the leaders that can help elephants avoid a stall? Like a good case study, this month's question divided respondents nearly down the middle on the question of whether or not organizations naturally "stall" because their View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
therefore establish a "relationship" that allows them to maintain contact with their customers over the long term. Recognizing this new reality and dealing with it proactively is the single most important dimension of enterprise... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
place.” None of it helps clean up a workplace mess. ADVERSITY TOOLKIT Managers can soup up resilience in themselves as well as their teams by making a shift in how they size up a challenge. Rather than dwelling on their misfortune,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
If you want to become good at early-stage investing, you need to learn how to size up the fundamental elements of an opportunity. Many investors use checklists or think of evaluation as a process of judging an entrepreneur, or an idea, or... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707040 Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition Harvard Business School Case 907-409 Deals with approaches to alleviating poverty and how firms,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
stressed. In the long run, I hope that companies will emerge from the crisis with a renewed appreciation for the importance of paying attention to the potential for catastrophic risks such as climate change, and for the importance of building government capacity... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
providers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50817 December 2016 Harvard Law Review Deal Process Design in Management Buyouts By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—Management buyouts (MBOs) are an economically and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
and England (Joseph Ramsey). Several respondents pointed out, however, that the benefits of deregulation are less obvious to consumers than its failures. The latter include short-term dislocations of demand-and-supply patterns and the confusion consumers experience in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
informed individuals is likely to lead to improvements in dealing with the problem of economic benchmarking. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2517496 Scale and Innovation During Two U.S. Breakthrough Eras By: Nicholas, Tom... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
are propelling capitalism into a new form that can be characterized as "virtual capitalism." And global corporations in their size and global influence are leading the embodiment of virtual capitalism into the modern world.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
innovations generate heterogeneous innovation qualities, and firm size affects innovation incentives. This framework allows us to analyze how different types of innovation contribute to economic growth and how the firm View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
formulating a strategy, markets and segments are typically important categories. But only customers buy. Hence, for most firms, de facto strategy and much resource allocation are the aggregate result of the deals their salespeople close.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
In recent conversations with US executives doing business in China, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Roy Y.J. Chua heard about a new trend. In an East Asian version of cutting deals on the golf course, Chinese executives often... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
A: We found that it was the relative percentage of their money that people spend on others—rather than the absolute amount—that predicted their happiness. In the bonus study described above, for example, the size of the bonus that people... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
suppliers, tertiary suppliers such as steel and aluminum manufacturers, the dealer network, and providers of financing, especially GMAC. The task of saving two major auto makers was all the more difficult because the companies appeared peculiarly unprepared to View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Job requirements at the top of corporations have changed. Companies have come to expect much more from their C-level executives, who need new and different skills to deal with today's business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
Reconcile yourself to the fact that sometimes leaders have to “behave badly” to do good Recognize that leadership situations and the qualities they require are idiosyncratic—one size does not fit all Recognize that leadership is a matter... View Details
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
Summing Up How Transferable is the Google "School of Management"? Responses to this month's column suggest a great deal of respect for what Google's management has been able to achieve, both in terms of a strategy for bringing... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?
adults, she said, individuals can size up career choices on many levels. "I think you have to look at how you value your choices on multiple dimensions," she said. People shouldn't just choose work based on prestige or salary.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace