Reviews - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

Still, Penney's pricing plan is risky. "Every day prices will not be as low as the biggest discounts that [the company] once offered," pricing consultant Rafi Mohammed wrote in a recent Harvard Business Review blog. "Instead, its pitch to... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

10 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points

leaving in a few weeks and that the company was "reconsidering the entire department's role and structure." Normally decisive and confident, Michelle was caught off guard. She felt frozen, with no idea how long the organization's review... View Details

Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

enhance a firm's value and competitive positioning. Study the range of strategies employed by firms to monetize their intellectual property. Understand the limitations to intellectual property rights and how their use can have surprising and even deleterious... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

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Non-Discrimination | About

sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, veteran status, disability, military service, or any other legally protected basis. Discrimination or harassment on the basis of these characteristics is inconsistent with HBS... View Details

27 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

For the most part, social media is what you make it. You choose whom to keep tabs on, who can follow you back, what you “like,” and which snippets of your life you reveal. But what if those carefully curated depictions are suddenly on the table at your next quarterly... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

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Rafaella Sadun | About

articles published in journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics , American Economic Review , and Journal of Political Economy . She served as an economic advisor to the Italian government in 2020 and 2022 and received the honor... View Details

01 Nov 2012
HBS Seminar

Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota

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Digital Millennium Copyright Act | About

disciplinary action. For more information review Harvard’s policy or the U.S. Copyright Office FAQs . A paper copy of this notice is available upon request by contacting dmca@harvard.edu . At a Glance Do not use peer-to-peer file-sharing... View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

Harvard Business Review editor-at-large, Nicholas G. Carr, ignited a firestorm in the opinion piece "Why IT Doesn't Matter" published in the May 2003 issue of HBR. Carr's argument wasn't exactly that IT doesn't matter, but... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

29 Apr 2016
HBS Seminar

Richard Freeman, Harvard University & NBER

13 Dec 2022
HBS Seminar

Christine Beckman, USC Price School of Public Policy

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Award from Wiley Publishing for Lazy Prices (Journal of Finance, June 2020) with Christopher Malloy and Quoc Nguyen. Zoe B. Cullen : Recipient of the 2021 Excellence in Refereeing Award from the American Economic Review . Paul A. Gompers... View Details

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Data Storage - Research Computing Services

under, please review this page on data security . If a project space already exists and you would like to make changes to the space users or size, fill out the Project Space Change Request Form . Once approved by the appropriate faculty... View Details

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

On a larger scale, the U.S. Army is known for conducting After Action Reviews that enable participants to analyze, discuss, and learn from both the successes and failures of a variety of military initiatives. Similarly, hospitals use... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

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Course History - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

distinctive challenges facing first-time chief executives in large, complex enterprises. The focus of the workshop is on defining an agenda as CEO, and preparing for the most challenging issues that a new CEO is likely to face. The Harvard Business View Details

05 May 2011
What Do You Think?

How Ethical Can We Be?

perceived by their employees. As antidotes to blind spots, Bazerman and Tenbrunsel argue that we can change ourselves, in part through awareness of the phenomenon itself, putting in place "precommitment devices" that seal you to a desired course of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

18 Dec 2017
Op-Ed

Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs

Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

21 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Harvard Square's Hidden History

And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.” The review became the cornerstone of Springsteen’s marketing campaign for his album Born to Run and catalyzed Springsteen’s rise to national renown. View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

reviews undermining customer trust? Is social media making us less happy? Executives can’t sit on the sidelines when it comes to answering questions like this. Business leaders can take steps to quantify their impact on the world. This... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

time equipment and bring the formal request to the Committee as soon as possible," thus pre-approving the required capital spending without benefit of formal review or even in-depth discussion. The Executive Committee reconvened one... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

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