Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (2,486) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (2,486) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 119 of 2,486 Results →
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

customers to deliver services in a rapidly changing, uncertain, and complex environment (e.g., hospitals)—play an important role in the economy. Organizational learning studies in these settings have largely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Leading In a New Era

inattention to customer feedback — led to stagnating sales and declining profits. "When I walked into this company in 1994," says Claiborne's straight-talking chairman, president, and CEO Paul Charron, "it was a $2-billion corporation... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

actionable advice on more robust policies that drive both structural change and competitiveness upgrading. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53152 Harvard Business School Case 615-022 IDEO: Human-Centered View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 2

Business Review 88, no. 6 (June 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the preview: http://hbr.org/2010/06/are-you-a-high-potential/ar/1 Altruistic Dynamic Pricing with Customer Regret Authors:Julio J. Rotemberg... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

Case 508-074 The largest retailer of diesel fuel in the U.S., Flying J, is rethinking its growth strategy as the economy goes into a recession. Its major customer base, owner-operated truck drivers, are facing increasing costs of doing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 20, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916033-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-017 Singapore Airlines: Premium Goes Multi-Brand Singapore Airlines had long been considered the gold standard for its innovative customer service.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Venture Capital’s Comeback

companies now find their best customers in China and India, where U.S. technology products are in high demand. More importantly, the free flow of ideas and capital have created entrepreneurial hot spots around the globe, challenging... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Consumers Make Decisions (and Why Clinicians and Managers Should Care) by Gordon Moore (AMP 79, 1978), John A. Quelch, and Emily Boudreau Oxford University Press The direct-to-consumer business model has transformed how people seek out goods and View Details
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

types of work Cash rewards are best suited as a motivator for work that is measured quantitatively, Whillans says. Many studies of the service and sales industries show that cash rewards lead to increased sales and improved View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

What's Cookin'

Brooke. “We wanted to get involved in something more entrepreneurial,” he explains. “We saw the restaurant business as a service industry that would be successful based on the organization's productivity, focus, and sense of purpose,... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
  • 20 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

retail investors much more as being like customers or employees of the company—even using a computer system to track preferences. They have both received awards by IR magazine for good investor relations. So in some ways these cases show... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Growing Together

performance. The process helps these organizations measure the volume of services they deliver, determine customer satisfaction, apply special analytic techniques to evaluate performance, and keep the public... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
  • November 2004 (Revised September 2019)
  • Background Note

The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004

By: John R. Wells, Gabriel Ellsworth and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2004, the $16.8 billion U.S. health club industry continued its strong record of growth. There were almost 27,000 health clubs in the United States, up from 6,700 two decades earlier, and these clubs claimed 41 million members, over 14% of the U.S. population.... View Details
Keywords: Health Clubs; Fitness; Gyms; Chain; Weight Loss; Obesity; Exercise; Personal Training; Bally Total Fitness; 24 Hour Fitness; YMCA; Gold's Gym; Curves; Franchise; Franchising; Subscription; Promotional Sales; Promotions; Fixed Costs; Body; Accrual Accounting; Revenue Recognition; Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Trends; Customers; Demographics; Age; Income; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Employees; Retention; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Contracts; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Operations; Service Operations; Franchise Ownership; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Salesforce Management; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Welfare; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Expansion; Segmentation; Hardware; Health Industry; United States
Related
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

heavily on other, usually smaller, companies or external individuals to conduct many of their activities. What part of your iPad is made by Apple? Is the Verizon customer representative you're talking with really part of that company? How... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing
  • Web

HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

in the prior year, primarily reflecting higher customer acquisition costs amid increased competition in the educational technology market. Total enrollment grew to 40,667 participants, 5 percent higher than the prior year. Although down... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

Abstract—Himachal Pradesh outperforms other Indian states in implementing universal primary education. Through comparative field research, this article finds that bureaucratic norms—unwritten rules that guide public officials—influence how well state agencies deliver... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

Vineet Nayar became president of HCL Technologies, a global IT services business, in April 2005, he knew the company needed drastic change. Since its founding as a hardware company in the 1970s, HCL had grown into an enterprise with $3.7... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

elephant attack to become a leading artificial intelligence software company. The case describes his unusual management approach emphasizing employee testing and selection, customer testing and selection, and a high degree of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

permission to lead. Troy, a customer service manager, endangered his job and his company's reputation by focusing on protecting his position, not helping his team; when a trusted friend advised him to change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

  Working PapersEconomic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services Authors:Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk Abstract This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace