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  • 22 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

which has employed team acquisition as a successful growth strategy for many years. The Quaker-founded firm’s compensation policies, strategic planning, consensus-based decision making, and even office décor... View Details
Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel
  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

quality, firms differentiate through choosing different business models; and (iv) low-quality firms are generally more prone to opening some of their technologies than firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • July 2010
  • Case

Fidelity Retires in Canada

By: Robert C. Pozen and Edward Warren Scott
The head of Fidelity Canada was faced with a decision about what to do with its retirement business there. Although Fidelity as a fund manager has made some headway in Canada, the competition has been very tough for the administration of retirement plans—a separate... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Investment Funds; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Retirement; Competition; Financial Services Industry; Canada; United States
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  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

2003, the firm has been waiting for the FDA to declare that meat and milk from cloned animals are no different from non-clones. During that period the company has worked to educate regulators, consumers, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

together” "By unpacking the costs, you have the opportunity to explain everything you did for the customer in putting that product or service together," says Bhavya Mohan, a Harvard Business School doctoral student in marketing. "When... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
  • 09 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures

How does the overconfidence bias (in which entrepreneurs overestimate their own abilities) work in cross-border settings?" As for resources, Kuemmerle also wonders about the interaction between product-market View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

all out, you discover that it’s not the right technology for the problem.” Academic researchers are “almost too married to their ideas and technologies, but I don’t blame them,” says Maria Roche, assistant professor in the View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

Government in the Global Economy Author:Richard H. K. Vietor Publication:Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Abstract As the world globalizes, countries compete for the markets, technologies, and skills needed to raise their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

been priorities in national initiatives. Conclusions. Our study suggests an underutilized strategy for improving patient safety and staff efficiency: leveraging frontline staff experiences with work systems... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

form of new capabilities and team-member resilience. We then highlight the critical roles of leadership and of communication and conflict management training as strategies for overcoming the challenges to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2018
  • Case

Inditex: 2018

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2018, Inditex, based in Spain, was the largest specialist fashion retailer in the world, generating sales of $31.5 billion in 2017 from a portfolio of eight retail brands selling through a total of 7,475 stores located in 96 countries and from websites in 49... View Details
Keywords: Fashion; Succession; IPO; Competition; Initial Public Offering; Multinational Firms and Management; Management Succession; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry
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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

minority executives we studied didn't wait for their work environment to be perfect," he concludes. "They managed their careers using the strategies we identified. At the same time, the companies... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

future research. Specifically, I call for research on the materiality of environmental and social issues for the future financial performance of corporations, the design of incentive and control systems to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

been to teach students and executives strategies for creating value, or integration. Many negotiation scholars and teachers go one step further, arguing that value creation has a positive impact on society... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Research & Ideas

When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS) at Harvard Business School. When the team’s research was published in Nature Sustainability in March, one organization watching closely was Esri, a geographic information system (GIS)... View Details
Keywords: by Glen Justice
  • 26 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

communication technology sector in the United States, and find empirical support for the four hypotheses developed here. The research presented in this paper has implications for our understanding not only... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

to extreme, alternative in a choice set. The term extremeness avoidance has been used to describe the reason underlying this phenomenon. In this research, we argue that extremeness avoidance behavior depends on assortment type, with consumers displaying extremeness... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Aug 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

barrier is not new. It has been a concern for years because it often necessitates a change in leadership and form of organization, something many founders and their organizations are unwilling to undertake. The second data point is the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services
  • 24 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?

of intellectual property theft by foreign competitors grows and secrecy becomes a more attractive strategy for firms to protect and capitalize on their innovations, this... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 27 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

than in models with fixed costs of changing prices. The latter predict unrealistically large responses of price changes to inflation for firms that do not frequently reduce their prices. Adjustment costs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace