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  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

and the fluidity of most work structures mean that it's not really about creating effective teams anymore, but instead about leading effective teaming. Teaming shows that organizations learn when the flexible, fluid collaborations they... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

barriers that limited firms' geographic scope and unleashing a seemingly unlimited set of new threats, challenges, and opportunities to create value globally. Globalization presents managers with an environment to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

such a product exactly as it exists in other countries, you would likely be in violation of both state lottery laws and federal banking regulations. Fortunately, one can test the structure under sweepstakes laws. Preliminary results for the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 20 Jan 2023
  • News

Free Spirits

year to the second. The segment now has a dedicated trade association and big expectations to meet: Global Market Insights predicts the sector will reach $30 billion by 2025. Mariah Wood (left) and Vanessa Royle (Courtesy Tilden... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • Web

Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

4 Markets Apply market principles to analyze industries in which no traditional market functions. Highlights The Concept of Market Equilibrium... View Details
  • Article

Navigating Talent Hot Spots

By: William R. Kerr
Innovation clusters like San Francisco and Boston have long had an outsize impact on the global economy, and their influence keeps growing. In 2017, for instance, America’s ten largest tech hubs accounted for 58% of U.S. patents. Globally, cities such as Tokyo, Paris,... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Innovation and Invention; Urban Scope; Industry Clusters; Innovation and Management
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  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

But there's a growing consensus that ads don't work on mobile devices; consumers just don't like them. Instead of creating tiny banner ads, smart marketers will turn to apps to reach customers and engage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2015
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values

how we shop. So in that sense, if you create a sustainable business within that industry, you’re much more likely to have impact because it’s so influential. Q: Tell us a little bit about the fashion industry. A: Fashion is one of the... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Fashion
  • November 2017
  • Teaching Note

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455. On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
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  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

and based in Michigan, the company had a proud history of product and marketing innovation starting with its first product, Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes, which created the cold cereal category. In recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

“It’s an eye-opening course that enlightens the path for future founders, joiners, or investors.” Roman Ignatenko Launching Tech Ventures Participant Equip yourself with the skills to join an early- or growth-stage startup in a product management, business development,... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • News

Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2016
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March 1, 2016

Abstract—The “net neutrality” principle has triggered a heated debate, and advocates have proposed policy interventions. In this paper, we provide perspective by framing issues in terms of the positive economic factors at work. We stress the incentives of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

who need them most, but unrestricted transfers might threaten the Internet's routing system. I suggest policies to create an IP address "market" while avoiding major negative externalities—mitigating the worst effects of v4... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

  Publications August 2013 The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets By: Brochet, Francois, Gregory S. Miller, and Suraj Srinivasan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

of a market mechanism to draw out knowledge from diverse external sources to solve internal problems. Creating Common Ground: Propositions about Effective Intergroup Leadership Author: Rosabeth M. Kanter... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

appeared in the 2007 film Juno—was eager to share the study results with her husband to point out that hiring a housecleaner just might create more marital harmony. “If two partners are busy working full time outside the home, you... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Research Summary

Competing on a Common Platform

Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details
  • 24 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

effects of v4 scarcity, while obtaining price discovery and allocative efficiency benefits of market transactions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-091.pdf Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

workers' different socioeconomic environments, the amount of monitoring that managers performed, and employee characteristics such as how many people typically worked in the stores. Is There A Payoff? As expected, Sandino and Chen confirmed that overpaying workers... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail