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  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

Donald J. Trump brings business experience to the White House. Source: BasSlabbers Donald John Trump, the 45th president of the United States, will be the first to go straight from the boardroom to the Oval Office without any political... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

Based on the fact that stores prioritize carrying products for which local demand is high, we test the hypothesis that introducing the STS functionality increased the retailer’s overall sales dispersion. We find that, on average, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2015
  • News

The Ingredients for Success

analysis showed that the biggest need was more basic. “There’s a significant unmet demand for restaurant workers,” she said. The culinary school will be housed in a failed venture in downtown New Orleans known as ArtWorks that cost... View Details
Keywords: Tyler Bridges; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Educational Services
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Leading In a New Era

office products, building products, and paper, had expanded production capacity to meet the strong demand for paper in the late 1980s but bore the brunt when demand began to taper off in 1990. The company —... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 11 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

learning among lower-level employees. We exploit a field-research setting in which business units vary in the "tightness" with which they monitor employee decisions. We find that tighter monitoring gives rise to implicit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operating in a coordinated manner. This new model demands that firms develop different skills, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Running Up the Score

players. Significantly for the sports industry's economics, TV revenues helped fuel the explosion in player salaries. Like everyone else, athletes gaped at the size of TV contracts and - assisted by an emerging group of player agents - View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

resulting currency position tends to rise in value when equity markets fall. This strategy works well for investment horizons of one month to one year. In the past 15 years the risk-minimizing demand for the dollar appears to have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

students, relocated persons, immigrants, or refugees—will find useful advice for landing a job in the United States this book. Readers will learn the different stages of the search process and how to prepare for each one, as well as... View Details
  • April 2021 (Revised July 2021)
  • Case

StockX: The Stock Market of Things (Abridged)

By: Chiara Farronato, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2015 by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, and Greg Schwartz, StockX was an online platform where users could buy and sell unworn luxury and limited-edition sneakers. Sneaker resale prices often fluctuated over time based on supply and demand, creating a robust... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Analytics and Data Science; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Market Transactions; Marketplace Matching; Supply and Industry; Analysis; Price; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; North and Central America; United States; Michigan; Detroit
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  • 15 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

paragraphs to Google, which, by 2001, already was the 15th largest website in the United States. Despite this traffic, Google’s ecosystem impact was still modest at the time. The company was still a year away from adopting the paid search... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology
  • January 2022
  • Supplement

SpartanNash Company: The Amazon Warrants (B)

By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
A continuation of the events described in the (A) Case, “SpartanNash Company: The Amazon Warrants,” (HBS Case No. 222-022). View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Value Creation; Consumer Behavior; Negotiation; Distribution; Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Equity; Distribution Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

behavior. In a laboratory experiment, I show that crowd out in response to public incentives is much less likely among those with public, as opposed to private, reputations. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50190 Observability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2022
  • Case

The Magic of Marks & Spencer Food

By: David E. Bell, Natalie Kindred and Damien McLoughlin
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Food; Consumer Behavior; Product Development; Competition; Price; Inflation and Deflation; Trends; Growth and Development; Strategy; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 09 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

head CT order, time from head CT order to head CT scheduled, time from head CT scheduled to head CT completed, and time from head CT completed to head CT preliminary report), each process was the bottleneck 30%, <1%, 27%, and 42% of the time, respectively.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2018
  • News

HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86

during the 1970s, while also chairing the School's General Management Unit (or Department). As Senior Associate Dean for External Relations under former Dean John H. McArthur from 1980 to 1989, Uyterhoeven completely restructured that... View Details
  • 29 Jun 2015
  • HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

can be used in powerful ways, ideally leading to better patient care, lower health care costs and, ultimately, healthier patients. “Trust on the part of both the consumer and doctor is hugely important in determining who is going to be the likely winner here” There is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Mission Possible

granted in the United States that there are people you can turn to for advice about entrepreneurship,” says Cindy Ko, vice president of international expansion at Endeavor, a nonprofit economic-development organization based in New York.... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance