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- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
In a large circular classroom called The Hives, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is roaming the floors this week as he oversees the second running of Strategic Brew, a computerized business simulation designed for first-year MBA students at... View Details
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
"denial is avoidable and leads to failure," such as Henry Ford's presumption that consumers would continue to want black autos in the face of evidence that they were becoming more interested in color; IBM's dogged pursuit of PC hardware while Intel usurped... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
implications for the efficient targeting of social programs more generally. A key issue in this debate is whether higher purchase prices lead to more intensive product use and, therefore, greater health benefits. We present results from an experiment in Lusaka, Zambia,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the profit-maximizing operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
outcomes. Instead, in most lines of business—with the exception of a few commodities in which international trade had developed—firms had an incentive to remain small and to employ as little fixed capital as possible. It was in this era that Adam Smith penned his... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
best global brands are by design also the leading local brands. The authors offer a new way to think about place in every strategic decision, from where to place products on the shelf to how to leverage consumer associations with... View Details
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Zach Clayton
involved in politics. "By college, I was eager to work with candidates in a more structured way," he says. That desire led to two business enterprises: The Resources Group, a public affairs organization, and New Media Campaigns, a company with web tools and... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
“There’s no quick shortcut to success:” Zorpads takes off
member – don’t worry, they won’t reveal who – took off her shoes, they knew they had found their problem to solve. "She knew [the smell] was bad, but then she started listing out all the reasons current products on the market don't... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
of sorts. They have allowed entrepreneurs to build empires out of fiber and thin air and to establish these empires in a realm without rules. They have challenged governments and their traditional authority—not by design or intent, but... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
inefficiencies and waste in a business where every penny really does count. Did you ever expect to be in the retail industry? No, never. I was trained as an electrical design engineer and spent four years in venture capital after leaving... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
are wreaking havoc on the workplace. Reengineering, for example, destabilizes and changes the rules by which organizations operate, he says. "Many of these programs are actually designed to make life easier for top management without... View Details
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
rare, but too many executives swing for the fences with each new innovation. This not only marginalizes people who work on smaller projects, but also tends to result in projects modeled on existing market successes—that is, not that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
can be turned into usable products. The company ships the glasses in carbon-neutral packaging, with an additional carbon offset to guarantee the product’s neutral environmental impact. The market for glassware in the United States... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
Illustration by Edmon deHaro Even before we’ve seen the full potential of quantum computing in any material sense, the global market is estimated to reach $5.5 billion in the next five years. To begin to understand why, consider how it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Broughton (MBA 2006) (Harper) A compendium of practical knowledge, trivia, and worldly wisdom for boys of all ages, designed as an informal full-color family scrapbook treasured by generations of one fictional family at their Adirondack... View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
Many of us learned at an early age the expression caveat emptor, or let the buyer beware. The phrase conjured up an image of a roiling, rollicking market that consumers best entered equipped for battle and prepared for disappointment—or... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Working PapersMarket Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in Europe Authors:Christopher S. Armstrong, Mary E. Barth, Alan D. Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines the European stock market reaction to sixteen events... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
Business School professors Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that while robust governments must play a role, leadership by business is essential. For enterprising companies—whether large multinationals, established regional players, or small... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
status-symbol luxuries, like expensive watches or designer jeans. Why do consumers pay so much for products whose ingredients are well known to represent only a small proportion of the retail price? Beauty is certainly, as one recent... View Details