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- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
people, other resources, and a broader context to create a viable market offering. One of the questions the case raises is 'what is Winfrey in the business of? What is she offering her consumers, viewers, magazine readers, and the people... View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
incentivized to produce safer products to help them manage risk” “When physicians are under pressure from high liability, innovators are incentivized to produce safer products to help them manage risk,” says... View Details
- 21 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Going Negative in Political Advertising
For more details, see Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes For Better Democracy by John Quelch and Katherine Jocz (Harvard Business Press 2008). Choice sells, in politics and in the supermarket. Distinct choices on the shelf attract our attention to a View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
local retailer because they know its reputation, location, store layout, product selection, and return policies. Retailers can use technology to magnify rather than minimize the benefits of physical... View Details
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
reduction in monopoly price leads to the production of units that cost less than their value to consumers (standard channel); (ii) regulation calms down existing consumers because a reduction in the profits of an "unkind" firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
diffused into the market. The debate was this: Did Microsoft win because its Internet Explorer was the technologically superior product to Netscape Navigator, or was Microsoft just more successful at the distribution end by convincing... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
very easily in some sense. Polaroid had a lot of really smart scientists, and viewed itself as the Bell Labs of photography. Q: How are some companies constrained by this framing? A: Let's continue with the Polaroid example. In translating its mindset into a View Details
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
line.” Bernstein believes the key to breaking that cycle may lie in research partnerships that help organizations conduct more field experiments. Just as many companies test out new products with “a/b” testing, they might also take an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
example by refurbishing electronic products and selling them in stores to contribute to the recycling effort. “Purpose becomes your lighthouse in the storm,” Barry says. “Purpose is the direction you’re always going to move the company.... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
Henry Ellis added that wWhile Google is massive and profitable, "they have one product that makes all the money the primary key to their success is patience, determination, and luck, with luck being the spark." Questions about... View Details
- 06 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Cheers to the American Consumer
sheer number of Americans promotes an attention to individual differentiation that is less prevalent in more conformist and homogeneous societies. Among 300 million curious consumers, it is possible for almost any innovation to find a View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
out the costs of leaving the EU, citizens have not heard a forward-looking plan on how the country could leverage EU membership more effectively in the future, if the country would decide to stay. The country needs to get on with taking steps to raise View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
conversion of inventions into commercially viable innovation. As Allen Roberts points out, " lacking as we do a worthwhile VC industry the history of the last 100 years where Australia exports all its great ideas with little return... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
Coast operations and its West Coast computer people would severely affect the company. The focus for much of this division was PARC. In the 1970s, PARC was remarkably successful in developing ingenious products that would fundamentally... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
Complementors: An Empirical Look at Amazon.com By: Zhu, Feng, and Qihong Liu Abstract—Platform owners sometimes enter complementors' product spaces to compete against them directly. Prior studies have offered two possible explanations for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
could be better off financially in the future compared to other firms, it does not mean that the action is enough to make a meaningful contribution to the problem. For example, a firm might be better off by lifting wages for lower-level employees by $1 per hour, but it... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
in emerging markets relatively small, business is beginning to eye this huge population at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) as a viable and essential market. Indeed, it is only in the last decade, thanks in part to academic research, that... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
its stores and its supply chain, lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions, safer products for customers and manufacturers, and better treatment of its workers. The company promoted the idea that its size gave it significant influence in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
writers—to fund their work, often with the only return an advance copy of a DVD, concert tickets, or a signed thank-you note. Some companies have run with the Kickstarter concept to create products as well, the most successful being... View Details