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- 06 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Cheers to the American Consumer
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. A recent Economist magazine includes a...
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by John Quelch
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
increasing their value. Denise Rickman grabs a magazine from the rack while in the supermarket checkout lane. Imran Jafar rides his scooter to work, enjoying the benefits of close-to-the-road transportation, exercise, and what sounds a...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate...
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- July 1972 (Revised September 1985)
- Case
Saturday Evening Post (Revised)
Permits analysis of the need for adapting strategy to environmental change and for choosing among strategic alternatives in the light of new environmental opportunities. Management and board failures in these areas may be traced to some of the underlying causes,...
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Journals and Magazines;
Management Style;
Values and Beliefs;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Adaptation;
Leadership Style;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
United States
Christensen, C. R., and John Wynne. "Saturday Evening Post (Revised)." Harvard Business School Case 373-009, July 1972. (Revised September 1985.)
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas, a stronger interest in people rather than things, prefer jobs in social or artistic areas, extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness, and neuroticism, characterized by high anxiety and lower stress...
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by Bill George
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
numbers, obviously, and therefore easy to quantify. But product quality tends to be, well, qualitative. For this study, Sheen faced the unique challenge of trying to quantify the idea of quality. He found what he needed in back issues of Consumer Reports, a monthly...
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- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55650 February 2019 Top Sales Magazine Sales Managers Must Manage By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract— A common complaint from C-level executives about their sales colleagues concerns the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
this system is extraordinarily new. The US News and World Report, which everyone knows in the United States, started its college rankings in 1983 because it was a failing news magazine that needed another business to stay in print. That's...
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- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
people, other resources, and a broader context to create a viable market offering. One of the questions the case raises is 'what is Winfrey in the business of? What is she offering her consumers, viewers, magazine readers, and the people...
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- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
unique lifestyle, and the most profit possible. Pick up any magazine and you can find a glamorized message of "making it" that assumes not only extreme performance but maximized reward: great wealth, drop dead attractiveness,...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
respectively, I find that the identity of a new industry is in fact the result of an interaction between contexts and entrepreneurial agency. With the help of oral histories, magazine primary sources, and other databases I show that the...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
Looking back, how should the company's restructuring be assessed? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811030-PDF-ENG Caijing Magazine (B) Karthik Ramanna and G.A. DonovanHarvard Business School Supplement 112-049 In...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
has only just emerged over the past twenty years. In her study, which draws on interviews with over forty designers and others associated with the industry, as well as analysis of Indian magazine articles, Khaire finds a coevolution of...
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- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
case:http://hbr.org/search/712415-PDF-ENG Monocle Soltes, Eugene, and Sara HessHarvard Business School Case 113-024 Monocle, a magazine on global affairs, culture, and business, was founded by Tyler Brûlé to counter a perceived...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
typically lowers product prices and profits. We extend the framework to examine competition across different media (e.g., between magazines and cable TV) and show that firms in a duopolistic medium may benefit from more intense...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
retail investors much more as being like customers or employees of the company—even using a computer system to track preferences. They have both received awards by IR magazine for good investor relations. So in some ways these cases show...
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- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
in this together. I recognize that special issues of business magazines rarely spur a nation's citizens to join hands and work toward common goals. However, I do have three hopes. The first is that anyone who engages with this issue of...
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by Nitin Nohria
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
the future with great accuracy, they won't say what will cause an event or why. They'll tell you which magazine articles are likely to be shared on Twitter without explaining what motivates people to tweet about them, for instance. To...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
was not. The Economist reported at the time that there were many warning flags of the EC's intent to scuttle the deal. For some time, the magazine pointed out, a philosophical gap had been widening between Europe and America over the...
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by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
Pick up most business magazines these days and you'll probably find an article on some venture capital transaction involving millions of dollars. From HBS Associate Professor Benjamin Esty's perspective, however, these deals are small...
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by Julia Hanna