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  • 23 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

Resellers can offer significant added value (and benefit from reputation effects) by verifying the quality of goods when that quality is difficult to confirm. But that position can be prohibitively risky... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 18 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

for talent, and it’s all focused on these high productivity people, and very, very little on those workers who actually may hurt organizational performance,” Minor says. Fired toxic workers can leave a big... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

While conceding that songwriters and poets can make a strong case for "I love you," economists know that the three little words that really make the world go around are "supply and demand." This familiar... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • Portrait Project

Cali Tran

When my mother closed her eyes and jumped from the Saigon docks onto a puttering fishing boat 30 years ago, she had no idea where life was going to take her. "What choice did I have?" she would often retort when asked about our... View Details
  • Web

Leadership - Health Care

creating art, and spending quality time with her cat and family. Lu Malygina Coordinator Lu is the Coordinator for the Life Science and Health... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

From Big Pharma to Startup

RapidSOS safety agents, 911, and first responders globally Trove Health—gathers an individual’s medical records to enable them to earn passive income by choosing what records they want to contribute to... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Portrait Project

Arielle Anderson

I know what it’s like to have roommates who give me space to be myself in the safety of our home. I felt a comforting stillness when friends mobilized to support me when I lost my grandfather. And I’m... View Details
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

and the quality of outputs are comparable among all participating entities. In our earlier Toyota/GM example, it was sensible to compare the two companies' stamping press changeover times because their... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

Competitive advantage. Corporate strategy. The competitive advantage of nations. All over the world these terms quickly bring to mind the groundbreaking work of HBS professor Michael Porter, whose two decades of research on these and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

aggregate information or map out where and how water is impacting a company’s supply chain.” Leni and Taryn see multiple entrepreneurial opportunities in the water space, among them: “assessing water risks... View Details
  • 18 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

immediate and impressive. Participants reported a quick 10 percent productivity improvement, rising to 25 percent a year later. There were equally striking gains in managers' evaluations of their ability to spot problems, conduct high... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

patients alike will be able to track and share air quality analytics in a very democratized way from their handheld sensors connected to their mobile phones and organized View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • November 2013 (Revised June 2014)
  • Case

E-Cigarettes: Marketing Versus Public Health

By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) were heralded by some as a healthcare game changer, enabling smokers to switch to a new product which carried lower risk of cancer. However, there were concerns about the public health risk of e-cigarettes, particularly the chance... View Details
Keywords: Public Health; Tobacco; Smoking; Cigarettes; Electronic Cigarettes; Cancer; Lung; Lorillard; Philip Morris; Safety; Technological Innovation; Conflict of Interests; Market Entry and Exit; Marketing; Health; Advertising; Consumer Products Industry; Health Industry
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  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch

state-of-the-art plant; and diversified its product line to include thermal imaging devices, firefighter and rescue helmets, and air quality... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • Web

Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

Free E-Book How to Become a More Effective Leader Learn about the difference between leadership and management, uncover the qualities and skills that characterize an effective... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

especially cautious about appointing company managers to your board. Company managers tend to steer discussion to operations issues and away from more strategic topics, and also make it difficult for the... View Details
  • 24 May 2017
  • News

John J. Brennan, MBA 1980

Express Chairman Emeritus, The Vanguard Group It’s 6 a.m. on a Sunday and Jack Brennan is making pancakes for his grandson, Jack, taking advantage of an opportunity to spend quality time with his namesake as... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • Web

Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

ones. Don’t defer quality of life issues until retirement; ask yourself what “living well” means for you here and now. Pursue complementarity If you have spouse or partner, your career is not pursued in... View Details
  • Research Summary

Social Innovation

My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details

  • Web

The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

base colors that enhanced the dramatic quality of the resulting prints. 9 Photograph conservator Paul Messier contends that in terms of reproduction, “many of the ‘artistic’ attributes permitted by the new View Details