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01 Jun 2020
News

How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014) is cofounder and CEO of the market research firm the Sports Innovation Lab, and when we spoke in May, it... View Details

20 May 2020
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Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

12 Aug 2010
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You Can’t Take It with You

advises Strobel (who, the article notes, counts four plates, three pairs of shoes, and two pots among her possessions). “See how it feels.” Is that easier to do if you start with less? Or harder? Cynics might say that the billionaires... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Oct 2000
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Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship

A generous gift from Rufus W. Lumry III (MBA 1974) will establish a new chair at HBS and support teaching and learning in the field of information technology as it relates to the Internet and entrepreneurial studies at Harvard University.... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

easier to achieve in a for-profit organization than in a comparable nonprofit," he writes in a recent working paper, "Philanthropic Social Capital Markets and Performance-Driven Philanthropy," and the most important reason is capital. "It is the absolute amount of... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

23 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

like to believe that people pay for status for purely symbolic reasons, but the empirical evidence for that has been weak at best," says Harvard Business School's Daniel Malter, an assistant professor in the Strategy unit who studies status and View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Feb 2023
Cold Call Podcast

Does It Pay to Be a Whistleblower?

Keywords: Re: Jonas Heese; Banking

March 1990 (Revised June 1991)
Case

IBM Corp.: ""Make It Your Business"" (A)

By: Robert L. Simons

In 1987, IBM changed its strategy in an attempt to become a market-driven company rather than a product-driven company. The case begins with a description of the new strategy and the reasons for the change and then describes the top-down sales planning and quota system... View Details

Keywords: Commercialization; Competitive Advantage; Business Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Strategic Planning; Motivation and Incentives; Sales; Volatility; System; Information Technology Industry

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Research & Ideas

Bill Gorge: Don't Fake It--Make It

Keywords: by Bill George

2000
Book

American Business 1920-2000: How It Worked

Keywords: Business History; United States

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December 2024 (Revised March 2025)
Case

KLog.co—Charting the Course of Its Future

By: Juan Alcácer, Jorge Tirado and Thomas Occhipinti

Keywords: Freighting; Logistics; Trade; Latin America; Chile

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June 1993 (Revised October 1997)
Teaching Note

WPP Group and Its Acquisitions TN

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

Teaching Note for (9-192-038). View Details

Keywords: Acquisition

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November 2003
Article

Planning to Play It By Ear

By: Kathleen L. McGinn

Keywords: Planning

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08 Jun 2014
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The hybrid successor has it all

20 Jul 2008
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Another Meeting? Say It Isn't So

25 Sep 2008
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Don't panic, but keep it urgent

22 Mar 2010
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Harvard Center Shanghai opens its doors

August 2014
Technical Note

Conjoint Analysis: A Do it Yourself Guide

By: Elie Ofek and Olivier Toubia

Conjoint Analysis has become one of the most commonly used quantitative market research methods. It has been successfully employed across a wide variety of industries to quantify consumer preferences for products and services. This technical note is intended to provide... View Details

Keywords: Market Research; Conjoint Analysis; Consumer Preferences; Segmentation; Product Development; Demand Measurement; Demand and Consumers; Analysis; Markets

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