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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
we need to be profoundly mindful of that. There are some important similarities, of course, but focusing only on the similarities would be a catastrophic mistake. Could we look to the flu pandemic of 1918 to 1919 for a more analogous... View Details
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
community, that have risen to the top and realized their role goes well beyond making the numbers to satisfy their shareholders, but they have to do something to really make a difference in the world, through the power that's vested in them with their companies. So... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
don't.' Over the past twenty years, I have run into that analogous question in hundreds of companies. Should you trade down your product line to broaden the market you serve? These are issues that do not go away, and I think that's what... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
School of Business, “Sealed Air is the perfect case for opening a class with the question, ‘What are you going to do?’ There’s really no wiggle room. After some analytics, you have to choose between ‘Yes, introduce uncoated’ or ‘No, don’t.’ Over the past twenty years,... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
and fundamental to Kodak’s identity. In January 2016, Clarke and his executive team traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, for the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) where the company unveiled a prototype of its new Super 8 camera—an analog... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
both? Might an over-emphasis on long-term restructuring increase the chances that major banks could collapse? And what were the best economic and political strategies in these arenas? As a major developed economy, Japan offers an analog... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
discussions about the pitfalls that might cause that high rate of failure? The ways in which we resist architecting prenuptial agreements or other ways that could be where we see a lot of analogs from founding teams, the founding teams... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
latecomers, as we build a technological infrastructure, it will be the newest and most advanced," Sicupira explains. "That has happened in Brazil with our digital cable installation, which surpasses the analog cable that is the core of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
solicit input on the ground, refine, and finally present their completed proposal to their partner organization. Moon draws on a medical school analogy to describe the immersion experience. “For decades medical schools have understood the... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
tremendous analogies here to corporate innovation. Q: The case describes tension between a driving creative passion and the lure of easy work. How did Paul Robertson and the group manage that conflict? A: The ensemble's dream was to... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
vindication or validation because I never really thought of it as something that I either needed approval for or that I was being judged for. It almost goes back to the analogy earlier of meditation. If you're an early meditator 15 years... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
the early years of the 21st century. From a state-owned enterprise earning 97% of its revenue from television sets and other analog consumer electronics, Thomson had become a publicly traded company providing digital video services and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
unevenly and somewhat unpredictably, alternately buoyed and buffeted by shifting oil prices, government policies, and consumer tastes. Cox’s Juan Camargo sees an analogy in the gradual adoption of internal-combustion automobiles. The... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
that assigns a real number to any coalition, S N, such that d(S) = -d(N\S). A game of threats is not necessarily a coalitional game as it may fail to satisfy the condition d(Ø) = 0. We show that analogs of the classic Shapley axioms for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
characterizes the financial world. They also overlook the role of natural selection. To be sure, natural selection in the financial world is not exactly analogous to the processes first described by Darwin and elaborated on by modern... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
to disaggregate their markets and seek out the differences and opportunities often hidden in current pieces of business. Q: Pricing opportunities occur at what you call the "piece of business" level of competition. What does this mean? Can you give an... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Gavetti and Jan W. Rivkin Periodical:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008) Abstract Deliberate, emergent, and analogical approaches to finding the best strategy all have their advantages, depending on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
for the launch by an unknown start-up, considering the wisdom of taking a B2C rather than B2B approach with a novel technology, and using analogous products to forecast demand and sales for a new technology. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
but online dating websites contain primarily searchable attributes (Study 2). Finally, we introduce and beta test the Virtual Date, offering potential dating partners the opportunity to acquire experiential information by exploring a virtual environment in interactions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/819043-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 918-413 Gimlet Media: A Podcasting Startup When digital distribution becomes an option for an analog industry, the effects on incumbents can be devastating.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman