Fast Moving Consumer Goods - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Sep 2022
Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

leadership and the role of serving others through collaboration. At the video services provider Vimeo, Anjali Sud persuaded both managers and employees to follow her insight that the firm could perform better as a software company for business customers, rather than... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

the world. Move Fast & Fix Things: The Trusted Leader’s Guide to Solving Hard Problems By Frances Frei, Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School and Anne Morriss (MBA... View Details

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

the last major consumer packaged goods advertiser to stay with a 15 percent fee, is moving in this new direction. It is sometimes a pragmatic pathway to managing risk,... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2021
Op-Ed

How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback

is a well-documented phenomenon. Women are less likely to receive specific feedback tied to work outcomes, while men are more likely to get the advice they need to move to the next level of seniority in their organization. When giving... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

16 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses

addresses they need. Neither are Web sites demanding IPv6, because Web sites want to be reached by users, and users only run IPv4. In fact, it's even worse than that. Moving to IPv6 too early brings extra costs. For one, there are the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Telecommunications

05 May 2020
Research & Ideas

China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “There is a demand shock from consumers buying less, and a supply chain disruption in addition to the tariffs, which only makes things worse.” Cavallo presents the findings... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

How fast should companies move to adopt AI capabilities? Who should drive the pace of implementation - business units responsible for results or technology leaders pushing innovation? While Fandrich viewed... View Details

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

evaluated before his departure, and he recorded his every move in sales reports and receipts. Sales managers at large corporations assigned salesmen specific territories and gave them monthly or weekly quotas to meet. They aimed to make... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

28 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 28

prosociality in which a recipient of generosity pays a good deed forward to a third individual, rather than back to the original source of generosity. While research shows that human adults do indeed pay forward generosity, little is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

prevent hunters from moving into the wildlife reserve. The fence, however, also prevented traditional east-west migration of animals across the region. Through the 1980s and 1990s, the farms within the Sabi Sand Game reserve converted... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Jan 2020
Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

more akin to an Apple, a Tesla, or a Nest, or a GoPro—where it’s a consumer product that has the foundation of sexy hardware technology and sexy software technology,” he is quoted in a book published today, Competing in the Age of AI:... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

possible to set expectations on what makes a good hire at your company (even if the hiring managers are experienced) and serve as a role model to managers who will eventually do this themselves. If you are new to hiring, get help from... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

10 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 10, 2009

Working PapersInflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds Authors:John Y. Campbell, Adi Sunderam, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract The covariance between U.S. Treasury bond returns and stock returns has moved... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

has been consistent for years: involuntary turnover in sales organizations has remained at 13 percent, since peaking at 14.6 percent in 2009, and total turnover (involuntary and voluntary—i.e., retirements, moves, etc.) in both good and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

goods? If so, why? I study these questions in the context of the first wave of the Great Migration (1915–1930), when more than 1.5 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States. Black inflows and the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Jul 2023
News

Striving for Imperfection

And I don’t think that’s a good response. I think in fact, equilibrium isn’t coming. We’re actually in a fundamentally changed frame. In that world you have to figure out how to move forward. We like this... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

26 Jan 2022
News

Making Peace with Anger

separated and I want to get divorced,” what I was confronted with was not only the reality that the most important thing in my life was moving away from me, which was my nuclear family, but that I had no control to stop it. And so I think... View Details

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

07 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 7

application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer to consume the same applications to benefit from consumption complementarities. We show that the combination... View Details