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- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
any entrepreneur looking to build a business around an unconventional product that elicits multiple reactions: How do you balance fun and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a flash-in-the-pan fad? Clocky... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
who create the ballast for the organization," said DeLong. In his talk titled "The Power of Supporting Players in Organizations: What's Right with B Players," DeLong told a classroom filled with visiting alumni about the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
destroy health, wealth, and life itself. The issues span the ethical spectrum: falsified books and records, misleading communications, defective and dangerous products shipped without warnings or information, abusive behavior and unsafe... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
others—getting the answer 0 percent of the time. That suggests a powerful opportunity to improve performance just by making leaders aware of the dangers of hogging airtime in a discussion. "I want to believe that oftentimes we behave... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
While some lessons can be learned by watching—a parent’s reaction after touching a hot stove can be a good lesson for a youngster on dangers in the kitchen—other lessons are harder to learn through observation alone. No matter how many... View Details
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
subjective, and all too often women or minorities have been excluded because others have not found them to "fit." One way individuals have coped with this reality is to hide who they really are or how they really think until they get a foot in the door. This... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
First, pricing and value are inherently intertwined. Yet, most companies use cost-plus pricing. That's dangerous in an information-rich world. Amazon, for instance, takes thousands of SKUs for consumer goods and distills this into... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
engineering fixes to allow users easier control over sharing information on their Facebook pages. In fact, Zuckerberg reportedly was working with engineers for several days doing just that while the world awaited follow-up to the initial disclosures. View Details
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
voters know who the big fish are. That is why when there are fewer audit firms there could be a greater concern on the firms' part about such political costs." Good For The Industry? There is a potential danger in this approach,... View Details
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
over better workers in favor of those of their own race or background. The danger is particularly high when things are going well. At those times, it may be easy to become complacent, Zhang says, and not realize the drag that subtle... View Details
- 14 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving
say a particularly dangerous phase will occur when cars are mostly automated—and yet still require some manual operation by humans or manual overrides in the event of emergencies. If people are multitasking to a greater extent in... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
2011. In the early 2000s, e-commerce was seen as a threat to entire store formats such as grocery, music, and toy stores. But as consumer behavior evolved over the last decade and as supply chains improved, it became apparent that the View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo. Someone must develop a vision for the future and a plan to get there. During the second stage, there must be a real willingness to take on the resisters—the most dangerous of these, warns... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
Blockbuster's historical margins. History reveals Blockbuster's tactical error, of course: the company is bankrupt, while Netflix now has more than 25 million customers. Marginal thinking can be dangerous on a personal level, too.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
companies focus on winning now. These are often difficult lessons for veteran leaders to heed. For many leaders, going on offense when they are in the depth of a crisis is most counter-intuitive, yet it is the winning strategy. Like the Chinese character for crisis... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
columnist and best-selling author). Ultimately, the printed word brought Levitt to HBS, when Edward Bursk, editor of the Harvard Business Review, asked the young University of North Dakota professor and author of a recent HBR article, "The View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
does that become too commercial and risk alienating parts of the public who are unwilling or unable to pay?" Along with that risk of overcommercialization, the push into new online realms also carries with it the danger that the... View Details
- 16 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Is MySpace.com Your Space?
members who are young, plugged in, and likely influencers in their peer groups. But do advertisers buying space on these sites face danger from the backlash of negative publicity? A: It poses dangers to... View Details
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
stakes and provides that much more basis for others to be interested. Banning recordings portends a dangerous tension with customers. If a customer thinks there’s something wrong, and feels strongly enough to make a recording and perhaps... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Global Environment-Transformed Organization
opportunities—though the process of globalizing is often more driven by need, circumstance, and opportunity than by carefully made strategic plans. The panelists view globalization as an unending path. However, they see bumps along the road, including the View Details