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- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
illusion that supplies would be limited. In fact, there were very few supply shortages. In both cases, the marketers anticipated demand levels pretty well. As the mountains of press coverage and strong opening day sales attest, the... View Details
- November 2007
- Article
Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders
By: Joseph L. Bower
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Planning
Bower, Joseph L. "Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 11 (November 2007).
- 17 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
If Marketing Experts Ran Elections
non-establishment, underfunded candidates to develop viable grass-roots campaigns. Voter questions and candidate answers in town meetings are now the standard. In other words, this year's election process so far seems more open and... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
Eastern agreements. These include the opening to China after decades of mutual hostility with the United States; détente and the first nuclear arms control treaty with the Soviets at the height of the Cold War; the Paris peace treaty with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
reinsurers as we do now, it's much better to have the gates be open like a conduit that would allow water levels to fluctuate according to the tide. If prices are too low, capital comes in; if prices are too high and returns going forward... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
competitiveness, because innovation and entrepreneurship are the source of our strength, not low-cost labor. And innovation and entrepreneurship require open minds. They require challenging the paradigm and doing something new. We started... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
on how he or she handles day-to-day activities with customers, managers, and front-line employees during the rest of the year. The CEO who seems measured, thoughtful, and open for three or four hours in the board room six times a year may... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
product based not on what it costs or what people want to pay for it, but based on another format that is completely different, just because you want to keep that format alive," he remarks. So the ongoing power struggle between publishers and key online retailers... View Details
- 02 May 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Profits and Economic Development
Keywords: by Dan Schwab & Eric Werker
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
non-competes while in the doctoral program at Harvard Business School. "There's an open labor market," he continues. "People can leave when they want. They're not trapped at companies the way they are in Massachusetts. And that's what... View Details
- 11 Jun 2024
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024
As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
on the process. On the other, it opens up the possibility that firms could capture these third-party actors instead—for example, drug companies influencing doctors with incentives for prescribing drugs or sponsoring medical conferences.... View Details
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
quickly adopted these service elements, and the industry baseline success criteria shifted. Q: As the business environment has evolved, how have its leaders adapted to change, such as deregulation in 1978? A: The advent of deregulation View Details
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
of where their schools ranked on each list, and some chose only those students who had ranked their school first. ("This meant you didn't really have five choices," Roth says.) Sometimes principals would withhold open slots,... View Details
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
route by which new designs come into being. Talking with other researchers, I learned that there were some theoretical open questions. In the first place, user-innovation communities are pervasive—wherever users innovate, they form... View Details
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
interview with Abdelal about this research, see "How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance."And so we find ourselves living, once again, in an era of financial openness and mobile capital. It is not the first time and, unless this is... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
many ways Facebook is taking over big chunks of what we used to do using more open technologies: web search, content consumption, even e-mail. Increasingly, Facebook is valuable to many people because it represents a more orderly... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
and to calculate metrics to compare their levels of modularity. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment in this industry, where products exist that fulfill the same function, but that have been developed using very different organizational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Students on the Job Market - Doctoral
85% of the participants in these calls. Faculty Advisor(s): John Campbell (Chair), Katherine B. Coffman , Samuel G. Hanson , Robin Greenwood , and Tarek Hassan Curriculum Vitae | Website | Email Jeff Gortmaker Abstract: Open Source... View Details
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
no longer sitting in front of the television screen and are open to more creative options. They will increasingly go to where the audience is—social networking, video sharing, and virtual world sites. We're also seeing advertising tapping... View Details