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- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
explored how great companies often lose their ability to innovate and eventually fail at the hands of much smaller, "disruptive" competitors. "Basically any stock you wish you have owned... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
Consumers delight in using smartphones to record their experiences and surroundings, but for businesses, such devices present tricky challenges. Suppose a customer encounters a hair in her food, a spill in an aisle, or a rude clerk.... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
In 1999, Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, best friends since childhood, quit their comfortable jobs to start govWorks, with millions of VC dollars to back them up. Their goal was nothing if not grandiose: to use View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
something, another requirement emerges: the cost of communication must be low enough so that various users can collaborate in an effective way. That is where the Internet comes... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
In the 2012 US presidential election, the Obama campaign deftly used a Facebook app to register voters and have friends message them to get out View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
sent you to the Web site where you could see the films in their entirety, which starred the same dashing young actor driving BMWs amid all manner... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
a small subset of the database available to the public on the Leadership Initiative Web site, the full database is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
Companies need to have smart technicians who stay abreast of emerging digital threats and defenses, of course, but the technicians shouldn't be calling the shots. General... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
Harvard AIDS Institute. It was co-sponsored by UNAIDS and the World Economic Forum. The fourth conference in the series will be held in Beijing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
both scriptwriters and script buyers. She then linked the sales data to data from Internet Movie Database and The... View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
must grow crops even as the available water supply to his operation is curtailed by drought conditions, court decisions, and quotas imposed by government agencies. The case... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
finding homes for dogs and vice versa. The Wagaroo website describes the company as “a team of fun humans with years of dog experience and a... View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
competition among firms? In the working paper Competing with Privacy, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andrés Hervás-Drane "consider a market where firms set prices and disclosure... View Details
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Japan. "Wireless Internet is a reality in Japan," he said, speculating that broadband, digital content, and semiconductors will all be controlled by Japan by 2005. Vogel commented that finance... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Chicago press on June 1 in an edited volume entitled Accelerating Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors. In detailed histories of agriculture, chemicals, semiconductors, computers, the internet View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Motivate Me, Please
people, but also costly for companies to maintain. Which programs work best? A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up Many internet users don't give a second thought to copying and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Global Environment-Transformed Organization
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
David Upton's Alumni Conference report on the state of information technology for business-to-business began with a lesson in technology history because, said the HBS professor, "understanding doesn't... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
running operations across the Internet as well as having a heavier IT component that examines subjects such as Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) and View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 30 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?
kind. That's the consensus among those responding to my recent questions concerning the future of the best and brightest of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett