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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
be achieved if the Argentine society underwent a cultural transformation, setting solidarity as a core shared value. Its association with the prestigious newspaper La Nación served as a valuable tool in attaining such an objective; it was... View Details
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
their relationships with employees or were just difficult to serve, perhaps because they fell outside the core constituency (target market) identified in the organizations' strategies. In some organizations, this is a way of expressing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
Then judgment—a fusion of thinking, feelings, experience, imagination, and character—becomes critical. The author offers five practical questions to improve your odds of making sound judgments: What are the net, net consequences of all my options? What are my View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
differentiation, which reduces buyer power. Structural differences suggest that firms need to compete differently as they enter markets around the world. We can perform similar comparisons along other dimensions of industry structure. In... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
rainbow everyone sees out there." Now, of course, the economic bubble has burst, the "easy money" is gone, and managers are worrying about how to stay competitive in the new world economy that has emerged. It's time, once again, to concentrate attention... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
Economy. "It requires abandoning past business models and challenging current assumptions and beliefs. It entails breaking many of the rules we've played by for generations." If your corporate culture is stifling your ability to View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
organization in an ongoing process of change and revitalization is necessarily complex. Pitfalls lie waiting where least expected. To avoid the cyclical trap of success-failure-rebirth, firms need to develop competency in simultaneously... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
the constraints of its and the company's mission and values. Leonard and Swap identify several ways to facilitate this task. Working with a physical prototype of a new product, they suggest, provides a tangible focus. In addition, identifying the organization's View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
late architect Cedric Price, who bottom-lined thousands of years of urban history into a breakfast order. The ancient city was a hard-boiled egg, surrounded and protected by a wall. Next came the fried egg, representing the city of the 18th and 19th centuries; with no... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
outstanding work. Rob Huckman's done a lot of very interesting work on adoption of new medical technology and how competing technologies—how the organization of hospitals influences the uptake of competing... View Details
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
A: In two of the companies, there were no expats among top management and a great deal of sophistication about the best and latest in everything. In one of those, its development lab competes effectively on a world basis with similar... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
instruments (including price-setting) to implement desired outcomes. Non-price instruments were very much at the core of MSP strategies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-061.pdf Platform Competition, Compatibility,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
are two mechanisms by which this can happen: engaging the periphery may either change the information set of the core or help align incentives of multiple core actors. Engaging the periphery might be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
ancillary benefits raise questions about how to structure and price ShopRunner's offering. Meanwhile, an investment from Alibaba presents new opportunities in China but risks distraction from the core business. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
from the core business who has demonstrated a record of success? An outsider who has started and grown a successful company? The school-of-experience view suggests that both of these managers might be risky hires. The internal candidate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
diversification into the technology intensive TFT-LCD flat panel display industry. Because the diversification is far away from its core competence in petrochemicals, it is an opportunity to examine how the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
come together. You hear the Mela before you see it. I had expected serenity, sanctuary, devotion. What I experience instead is a nonstop cacophony as each of the major Akharas (aligned but competing religious denominations; there are... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
stay focused on the company's core competence, i.e., developing superior search solutions and monetizing them through targeted advertising. Another option is to branch into new arenas, for example, build Google into a portal like Yahoo or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate goods sector, entrepreneurs must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
consists of (1) two firms competing in a vertically differentiated market in which product quality is a mix of public and private components and (2) a market for developers that firms hire after observing signals of their contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel