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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
Provide a series of examples of how behavioral decision research can be leveraged to create psychological influence tactics for use in negotiation; (4) Consider the other side of influence, i.e., how targets of influence might defend... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
to call out perhaps two or three states that are doing some interesting, compelling things, certainly Texas on data systems, on employer alignment, some of the things they’ve done with how they fund technical colleges and community colleges. Virginia around View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
good results, particularly if financial and other incentives are tied to these results and commitments are in terms of future goals and targets. This was the case at Natura and UTC; both companies were candid about whether or not past View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
the food and drinks industry are increasing wages, and in a concession to work-life balance, Walmart and Target even opted to close on Thanksgiving. However, in the race to retain talent, companies are also resorting to less substantive... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
management practices, but low enough that they were familiar with day-to-day operations. The researchers also chose to target primarily small and medium-sized firms, employing between 100 and 5,000 workers, to maximize the chances that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
of management constitute the field organization: store, district, regional, and divisional heads. All these managers are responsible for meeting targets set by corporate headquarters and implementing strategy. To do so, they adhere to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
by a factor of five to achieve the mitigation and adaptation targets needed to keep warming below 1.5 degrees. Adaptation is particularly underfunded, receiving less than 10% of all funds when 20% would be required. When funding is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
tight security worldwide. There could be no soft targets anywhere. That was the wake-up call.” Bonnie Rubenstein Cohen (MBA ’67) grew up in the blue-collar “Shoe City” of Brockton, Massachusetts. Her father, Harold Rubenstein (MBA ’40),... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
sales began to slide. While Steinhafel believed that Target's long-term strategy and positioning were right, he pondered a set of strategic and operational challenges. Did Target have the right mix of offensive and defensive tactics to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
military, market research). A host of additional marketing decisions need to be made (pricing, channels, bundling a demo game). The case allows students to grapple with the issues of selecting a target application for the launch of an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
All illustrations by Joe Ciardiello Jeffrey Bussgang (MBA ’95) is collaborating with faculty member Noam Wasserman on a case to be taught in Wasserman’s elective course Founders’ Dilemmas: Money and Power in Entrepreneurial Ventures. View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
either by targeting distribution to high-use households (a screening effect), or by stimulating use psychologically through a sunk-cost effect. We develop a methodology for separating these two effects. We implement the methodology in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
affairs in our chapter in The Support Economy called "The Transaction Crisis." Cost reduction has continued to be the dominant strategy under managerial capitalism because new sources of wealth creation are increasingly elusive. That very problem is the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
Bank to the local government, targeted to pay for roads, power, and other necessities. Partners In Profit Clearly, many details need to be worked out if the WDC is to become a reality. It would require a few companies to step forward and... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
late Steve Jobs’s words, “the key, underlying principle of the problem” and then the “beautiful, elegant solution that works.” Once the problem has been defined and the desired target established, there are two key functions in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
calling on women executives in order to plan the new program, Women Leading Business: An Executive Forum. "We knew we didn't want it to be a 'glass-ceiling' course," Hart explained in an interview last November following the program's successful debut. "We were View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
these large businesses to succeed. (We're targeting Fortune 1000 companies.) That was the key decision we made—not to compete against them. No way do we want to compete against Dell. What we want to do is enable them. So in effect we're... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
competition. The study focuses on algorithms that are predicated on rival pricing and does not examine those that target pricing for specific regions or consumer groups. Online retail pricing algorithms, whether developed in-house or... View Details
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
all the time, so annoying). This time, participants rated the targets not only on likability and sincerity, but also on how attractive they thought the person was. And as with the previous study, participants saw humblebraggers as less... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
but not impede innovations targeted to specific subgroups. Q: What are you working on next? A: I recently joined the Business, Government & International Economy unit at HBS and am in the early stages of developing a research project... View Details