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- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
direct sales? Should I break out individual costs on a price tag? How Can Marketing Better Align With Corporate Strategy? Fixing the Marketing—CEO Disconnect In many companies, the marketing function has wandered far from the firms'... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
are covered by employers or Medicaid. The healthy people in these insurance pools subsidize the costs of the sick. But many employers, weary of uncontrolled and unpredictable health care costs, will likely soon View Details
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
coffee, revitalizing the quality of its standard beverages. But none of these moves addressed the fundamental problem: Starbucks is a mass brand attempting to command a premium price for an experience that is no longer special. Either you have to cut price (and that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
modern container shipping, the ship is really a relatively small part of costs,” observes McCown. “Everything ship-related might only be 30 percent of the carrier’s total cost. The biggest cost is fuel.” Both economics and environmental... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
monitor hydration levels in real time. The disposable patch allowed endurance athletes to avoid the performance or cognitive impairments that dehydration can cause. The initial product was built as an analog system but Cass, who is founder and CEO, was contemplating... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
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. Recession-challenged consumers are buying less, looking for deals, or... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- Web
Charting Tariff Pain: Small Businesses Brace for Job Cuts, Falling Sales | Working Knowledge
could immediately switch to domestic suppliers, and 35 percent estimated that reshoring would raise costs by no more than 20 percent. Another 20 percent of owners said that shifting would be impossible or... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
significantly higher Chinese contributions to world-wide CO2 emissions” My big concern with fracking is that coal-to-natural gas fuel switching can be short-lived if $/BTU flips back in coal's favor. I am told that this "flip" has already... View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
CEO reported that friends had come down with it. One CEO and father of three reported “[getting] lost in looking after the kids” as his wife “is a frontline worker and was at the hospital every day.” “Kids switching to online school” was... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-027.pdf Platform Envelopment Authors:Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Due to network effects and switching... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Evelyne White
Bookalokal continue to focus only on small and midsized cities. The company seems likely to confront winner-take-all competitive dynamics at the city level, because network effects are strong—more diners will attract more hosts, and vice versa—and because hosts will... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
the outcomes. Teradyne found that by using generic components offered with Windows NT software, it could slash the cost of delivering the product to integrated circuit manufacturers. Despite the significant View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52341 February 20, 2018 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Administrative Costs Associated with Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
firms also invested rapidly to build radial tire production capacity once the OEMs [original equipment manufacturers] switched to the new technology. In the case of investment in radial manufacturing capacity, the tire firms may have... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
pick) or a Jerry Rice (Mississippi Valley State, No. 16 pick) this year. Players like Carson Wentz (North Dakota State) and Ryan Schrader (Valdosta State) may face similarly bleak odds. Players looking to switch positions are also at a... View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
2012) Abstract Controversy surrounds occupational health and safety regulators, with some observers claiming that workplace regulations damage firms' competitiveness and destroy jobs, and others arguing that they make workplaces safer at little View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
business model. If the model is characterized by increasing returns, demand begets still greater demand, as illustrated by eBay's success. A business may also benefit from significant scale economies if big up-front investments and fixed View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
dominant cultural traits and prevailing operating climate.” Anna Johnson recommended: “We need to flip the switch on dissent, delay, and accountability by enabling leadership to take a long view. Want to do better? Try asking your people... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
numbers all day?’” Anderson recalls. She switched her focus to social entrepreneurship, working as an associate and then a project manager at New Profit, Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit, venture philanthropy fund. While there, she helped... View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East
After serving significant stints with Booz Allen, Yahoo! and Facebook, Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) can justifiably claim expertise in strategy, consulting, and social media. Although she regards her track record with pride, she sees herself more as a well-rounded View Details