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- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
How's this for a mission statement: We make crummy products for non-consumers. But if you think that's the idea for an "F" paper in business school, you haven't been paying attention to success stories ranging from Henry Ford's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
will have little room and limited effectiveness in the classroom. Have the students read Dilbert instead." According to Vuks Gwele, "Ethics and values are and always will be an integral part of our lives both in business and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
in passing tort reform laws to limit the amount of damages patients can receive. Less attention has been paid to the effect such reforms can have on medical device innovation. Under the chilling effect of... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
extent that taxes do not limit where companies keep their cash holdings and that companies have better uses for their cash here in the US than abroad, this can also have a positive effect on stock valuations. A third effect comes from the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
more risk in projects by limiting their use of “cost-plus” agreements, which make it easier to overcharge government agencies, according to researchers. This renegotiation of contractual terms allows the agency to hedge its bet with a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Hybrid Learning the HBS Way
made remote-only classes as interactive and engaging as possible, he says the hybrid classrooms elevated the experience. “I immediately perk up in my seat and feel more attentive and alive,” he says. “I’m reminded of just how electrifying... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
professor Ernest R. Berndt), HBS professor Alvin J. Silk looks at both internal and external forces affecting the industry, with particular attention to the impact of the Internet. According to Silk and his colleagues, changes in the... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
Adopting a technology without understanding its power and limitations usually ends in disaster. To leverage a technology optimally, pay careful attention to how the technology integrates with the company's... View Details
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
size fits all' legislation." All of this will take time. Adrian Gonzalez commented that "There's a limit to what can be accomplished ... because today's products, manufacturing processes, and supply chains were not designed with... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
widespread skepticism for the possibility of fair regulation. The power of big business is limited by the need to work with a range of powerful but diffuse societal groups. In his new book, Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
HBS Collaboration Helps Management Education for Minority Students
seminars and participate in internships with member corporations. In addition, the Alliance has put a priority on helping each school develop an educational strategy focused on business practice. "Developing competitive niches is particularly important for schools with... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
ensuring a movie's success overseas is to ensure its success in the U.S. Even though foreign box office revenues are now often higher than domestic revenues, a movie's performance in the U.S. remains a key driver of what happens overseas. It determines how much View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
Economy & Society, a thoughtful analysis of whether the United States risks losing its preeminent position in attracting global talent. Kerr is the Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff-MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Kerr... View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
percent of the children are vaccinated against the virus. And the price of the vaccine is negligible, says Schrader—around 5 or 10 cents. "It's not cost that limits it," he says, but rather infrastructure: Vaccines rely on a complex and... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction
for the election of directors. Under these circumstances, shareholder democracy in the traditional sense has limited relevance. A majority-voting regime could lead to failed elections and other knotty legal complications. Beyond touting... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention on another locus of learning that has received less attention from academics despite popular interest:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
continue to deteriorate sharply despite decades of talk about business and sustainability. Participants eschewed focusing on the handful of win/win cases to explore why attention to environmental sustainability is just plain hard. Some of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
didn’t ground demand,” she notes. “The demand was still there, especially for products like ours that limited your exposure.” When passenger air travel neared pre-pandemic levels in 2022, Aero discovered another advantage. With commercial... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
media usage had declined among Americans less than 35 years old, and the only age group using Facebook more were people 55 or older, according to Edison Research.) As a marketing medium, online channels were cluttered and increasingly viewed with suspicion as media... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- Web
The Art of "Posting" - The Art of American Advertising
The Art of “Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “[Posting] is so big, so forceful, so always-before-you-and-never-to-be-thrown-away that it is bound to command unusual attention in the small town or city.” G. H. E.... View Details