The Great Divergence - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

to succeed, he said: fragmented buyers and sellers ("If people have other ways to meet, it won't work."); an inefficient existing supply chain; and, most important, knowledge of the industry domain. Functional hubs, on View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

03 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

Open the Wall Street Journal on any given day, and you are likely to find at least one story about how technology is disrupting yet another industry, and the pressures companies face to innovate. And yet,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands

hard selling—and a great way to do that is to spend a little brand equity on playfulness to spark conversations. The Rules Of Play Marketing—in the form of View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

need the resources required to pull off such a complicated task, but will have to establish great credibility with the consumer. Not only are medical records scattered, many... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

difficult and time-consuming even in countries with sufficient medical resources, much less in developing countries where the need is great but fewer personnel have the time... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

05 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

A decade ago, Porsche, the luxury car company, found itself at a crossroads. Renowned for its classy (and expensive) sports cars, the firm had taken a hit in the wake of View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

09 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

machines. Similarly AT&T has been almost synonymous with long-distance services to consumers. Both businesses have historically been great cash generators for the companies. Still, as you look forward,... View Details

Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

realize as a typical citizen as you're going about your daily life.” A resource for COVID researchers Even though the tracker is no longer updated live, the detailed database could serve as a View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

05 Jun 2000
What Do You Think?

What’s Happening to Our Patience?

all of the people waiting ahead of them in line. So Disney entertains its waiting guests, tells guests what to expect (almost always exceeding such expectation to create the impression of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

Building organizational confidence, and turning losing streaks into winning streaks, is the work of leaders. Great leaders build winning streaks, prevent losing streaks, and in turnaround situations, they... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

polesnoy As technology commoditization begins speeding up again, it’s a great time to be a consumer in search of a state-of-the-art flat panel TVs, but less comfortable for manufacturers hoping to make a profit. That’s according to recent... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

03 May 2004
What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

lives we must continue to push for more." But Mal Watlington poses perhaps the most challenging question: "The history of philosophy is filled with great thinkers who advise us to seek balance in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

market against the more incumbent and larger companies, particularly during times with great uncertainty.” About the Author Rachel Layne is a writer based in View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

When Protestors Knock at Your Door

may serve as a clever way to differentiate a brand or product and capture market share. Q: What can managers learn from past experiences of targeted companies? Spar: I think the broadest lesson is not to underestimate View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

03 Apr 2017
What Do You Think?

How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?

taking people from unemployment to good jobs (in the case of FocusHope, in partnership with the auto industry). The US community college network, by instituting View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Construction

04 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208004 Gome: Bidding for China Paradise Harvard Business School Case 208-002 Gome, China's largest electronics retailer, has the opportunity to acquire China Paradise, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

"Listen carefully to what your customers want and then respond with new products that meet or exceed their needs." That mantra has dominated many a business, and it has undoubtedly led to great products and has even shaped... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

In 2012, two seasoned scholars shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their research on designing markets. Lloyd Shapley had developed theoretical methods to create stable matches in unstable markets. Alvin Roth had... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

inside the firm to create subunits that define the operating core. As you will see, responsiveness is the critical objective for units close to View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

is a lot other work at the school going on around these issues by many other faculty. For instance, Dave Scharfstein is doing great work on how capital market forces influence View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

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