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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
consumers had initially tried their product or service, earning their repeat business and their loyalty by creating trust between the product, the company, and the consumer. To me, that is the strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
As many entrepreneurs and business leaders can testify, a great conversation or brainstorm can turn an inkling of an idea into a gamechanger. A research paper goes inside those conversations and the people having them to learn the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
for core innovative activities, frequently through platform-based businesses and ecosystems and by incorporating user innovation. We then examine how this ease of external engagement impacts the organization and its View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
co-sponsoring research into a new vaccine for Dengue fever with the Brazilian government. GSK's management must consider whether the PPP provides strategic advantage to its consumer healthcare businesses in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
terms of value created for customers, employees, and shareholders? If the latter, is it the natural result of a system of incentives geared to short-term financial rather than longer-term business benefits? And what does it say about the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
Martin when a long-term strategic plan was put in place that called for the company to distribute its products through more than 100,000 locations of various kinds. The 25-fold increase in the number of distribution points called for more... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
Summing Up Stretch—its meaning, uses, and pitfalls—could fill a book, judging from responses to this month's column. First, there appears to be limited agreement about what stretch is and how it works. Some saw it as a variation on long-range planning. Others saw it as... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
PublicationsHarder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Authors:Austin, Robert D., Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract Being a great leader today is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
innovation in clusters should account for these links. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-064.pdf The Strategic Use of Architectural Knowledge by Entrepreneurial Firms Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory and research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
1999 and 2000 when Pets.com came along; they dreamed up this strategy very early on. To me, it's a lesson on just smart strategic leadership. They saw the threat and came up with a smart strategy that placed them where the puck was going.... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
We suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level—from CEO to business unit head to project manager—based on what we call "right stuff" thinking, borrowing the term from Tom Wolfe's famous book and the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
strategic priorities. This article explains core links between selling initiatives and basic drivers of enterprise value, and it provides suggestions about how best to communicate strategy to busy people in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
PublicationsThe New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance Authors:Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2010 Abstract Retailers today are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
interdisciplinary, with economists and business historians joining together to confront theory with empirical evidence. Publisher's Link: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415532716/ Working PapersNo Margin, No Mission? A Field... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
financial and strategic decision making. But along the way, I also noted another important aspect of this leadership task, a related line of effort that seemed to go largely unnoticed and unstudied by observers but that was just as vital... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered Does branding work for business-to-business marketing? Can individuals... View Details
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
comprehensive analysis of the range of possible strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where their choices of business models are endogenously determined and where the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
structurally, functionally, geographically, and strategically diverse firm. The full data set comprises more than 100 million electronic mail messages and over 60 million electronic calendar entries for a sample of more 30,000 employees... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
fragile, even without leverage, precisely because the volume of new claims is excessive. Purchase the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/W16068 Cases & Course MaterialsVirginia Mason Medical Center (Abridged) Richard BohmerHarvard View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace