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- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy
pardonable hyperbole of the guidebook, into a "stupendous, gigantic, super-magnificent ... greatest show on earth." Time magazine called it "the biggest, costliest, most ambitious undertaking ever attempted in the history... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
differentiation is difficult in retail as well because development of such advantages takes time and is difficult to execute. All the while, low-price players are constantly looming to pounce. Can low-margin retailers afford customer... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
leadership of Deng Xiaoping, there was an energy that you could feel—the possibility of stability and maybe a different face toward the outside world. But there was also the reality that it was a country that had only begun to emerge from a View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
with company growth and maturity. In The Classroom The LGV cases represent a range of businesses. Kerr kicked off the first class with the story of Celtel International, a Pan-African cellular provider that at the View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
options should be rethought in many organizations. First, there is the issue of whether options are the best means of promoting shareholders' best interests in established companies. While making an exception for "cash-poor start-up View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
dialogue with Michel about selling the company or expanding their relationship. Michel wondered if the time was right to sell or if he should grow Affinity Labs further with the hope of creating a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
Labs. Wherever companies go with smart-city technology, “it’s important to build products that enhance citizens’ lives and to engage the community early on issues of data and privacy,” says Weiss. Done right, View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
manage a company's resources. But many executives who have tried to implement ABC on a large scale in their organizations have found the approach limiting and frustrating. Why? The employee surveys that companies used to estimate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
Review 85, no. 1 (January 2007) Abstract Every leader gets off track from time to time. As leaders rise through the ranks, they have fewer and fewer opportunities for honest and direct feedback. Their bosses are no longer monitoring their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
that's not going to work," Khaire says. "You don't manage the creative process, you enable it." Culture-changing entrepreneurship explored in the course include: Chef James Beard. During Beard's time of highest influence,... View Details
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
has grown rapidly at a time when plenty of other industry-disrupting platforms have flourished, including Uber, Craigslist, and Spotify. Airbnb offers listings in 191 countries, and its total number of listings—4 million-—is higher than... View Details
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
most important." I spend my life trying to make the next generation a little less neurotic about money.— Joline Godfrey, Independent Means, Inc. As the founder and CEO of Independent Means, Inc., a financial education company aimed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
different products. His answer, "our monetization strategy today, which has been effective over quite a long period for Yahoo, is to fulfill the unmet need of the user." Lahiri said his company has taken a similar approach over... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
debts, substantial store closures and workforce reductions, and sufficient new private equity capital to help reposition and revitalize Daiei's retail operations. Overcoming these hurdles in a large and visible company like Daiei would be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
much more apt these days to hear about loyalty in the context of problems—loyalty to a country or religion leading to fanatical acts of chauvinism or violence, loyalty to family or friends leading to nepotism and cronyism in government, or loyalty to co-workers or a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
some companies hard-code ethical values—for example, the numerical value of a human life—into an algorithm. Others set up self-teaching AI to “learn” what risks the AV can take. Countries often want automated systems to adhere to local... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
by Alex Haley and Malcom X, but can’t seem to find my copy as I think I lent it to my son just before he left for his gap year. Laura Huang I like to switch up what I’m reading—so I often alternate between fiction and non-fiction, different View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
gender-related themes from media outlets including the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. This allowed them to trace how, when, and why the firm evolved in its focus on gender. They also created a time line to explore links between... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
the United States as part of its own self-contained region. Regional strategies can take a long time to implement. Leading-edge companies are starting to grapple with these definitional issues. For example,... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
had the kind of in-depth look it deserves, yet it is at the core of a number of the problems we've seen. The board of directors and its compensation committee determine the compensation of the CEO in our system. Yet too many companies in... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark