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- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
late 2009, Marisa worked in acquisitions at Douglas Private Equity Advisors. During the first year Marisa spent a lot of her time reviewing documents, making site visits, and running numbers, using a sophisticated software program called... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
few years in deep study of the restaurant industry to create and deliver an MBA-level course at Harvard Business School called Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry. Leveraging this work, we virtually convened in April a... View Details
- 05 Jul 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?
those days, there was fascination with air freight and the trade-off of inventory and transportation costs—as in spending more for air transport in order to spend less on owning inventory, thereby optimizing what we called the “total cost... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
retailer aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory. As common in practice, the retailer does not know the expected demand at each price and must learn the demand information from sales data. We propose an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
create more opportunity for advertising, so TikTok is building out its ad sales force. More advertising means that it can offer creators the revenue opportunities long available on YouTube. TikTok recently announced an ad revenue share... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
proposition. It aims to explore effective curricular and programmatic responses as opportunities for MBA programs to innovate. The paper also aims to call for collective action across the business school field to effectively address these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bundle?
Sales can soar when companies bundle products together into one cheaper package—Happy Meal, anyone? Yet a buyer's affinity for such deals comes with a big caveat, according to new research: These groupings are often successful only if the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
School Case 712-496 In 2006, surgeon Ara Darzi identified several key areas, including acute stroke care, for improving health care across London. In response to his seminal call to action, stroke care was reorganized around eight... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision
possess multiple selves with different, competing interests. We call 2 of these metaphorical selves the "want-self" and the "should-self." The want-self is myopic and desires instant gratification. If left to its own... View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
structure driven by the accelerators." Two Is Better A dual operating system is a nod to what Kotter believes is some of the most interesting management thinking of the past few decades, from Michael Porter's "wakeup call telling us that... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
learn more about creating a sales playbook or experience venture from an investor’s perspective versus as the fundraiser. What tools are missing from your toolbox? What existing tools in your toolbox do you wish to HONE? For example, a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- Web
Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
starting and scaling new information technology businesses, and Managing Networked Business (now called The Online Economy ), which surveys strategies for platform-based businesses that leverage network effects. Professor Eisenmann... View Details
- 12 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?
the service process rather than the line they’re waiting in. “Showing customers the work that’s being done to serve them can cause them to mind waiting less and value the service more,” he says. In virtual environments such as call... View Details
- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
value. Through their leadership they encouraged other corporate leaders to embrace this multi-stakeholder approach. Harvard Business School’s Michael E. Porter called this idea “creating shared value” in January 2011. Let’s examine how... View Details
- 09 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages
back and shifted its staff, furloughing some employees and placing others in temporary jobs in other industries until the company needed them back. For example, the company had created a role that it calls “restaurant operations... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
positioning story or sizzle. The details can be filled in later. We have a process here called SEMS, or Systematic Emerging Market Selection. We do a SEMS project for every investment we make. Twice a year at our planning meeting, we talk... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. The current economic crisis has been blamed... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
successful that its U.S. sales reached the equivalent in today's terms of half a billion dollars by the end of the 1920s, before the Great Depression eviscerated what had become the world's biggest beauty company. Coty was a larger than... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
responsibility of individual firms. The authors call for business to be both innovator and activist in protecting and strengthening market capitalism. Instead of seeing themselves as narrowly self-interested players in a system that is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne