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- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
contributed to what came to be regarded as a target unemployment rate, with anything less causing excessive inflation. At one time, many economists thought this to be as high as 6 percent. The Phillips curve has taken its lumps over the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms
are familiar with.” And it’s a model she believes could also transform the coffee industry and other commodity supply chains. “The economics of coffee are some of the most challenging out there,” explains Nyamumbo, who herself grew up on a Kenyan coffee farm. The View Details
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
running around the house," Nanda says. "After seeing its product in the field for some time, iRobot has since improved the original Roomba and is introducing other new products like the Scooba [a robot mop] that are targeted to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
Radio-frequency identification devices for grocery stores, smart cards, and automated ordering systems for hospital physicians are all examples of new process targets that technologies will soon address. In the more distant future we will... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- Web
Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Competition Championship (83kg). Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2022 Best Paper Award on Finance in Management Science from the Finance Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for "Patent Trolls: Evidence from View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
(forthcoming) Abstract Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but that violate government... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
setting targets for these financial measures, organizations may be tempted to turn to commercial benchmarking services, such as the Hackett Group's Best Practices surveys. Hackett regularly produces a "book of numbers" for... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
of price differentials. But the world is not so homogeneous as to have removed arbitrage from a company's strategic tool kit. In fact, many forms of arbitrage offer relatively sustainable sources of competitive advantage, and as some... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
and chips chain, figuring that if I could grow earnings of 50 percent compounded with a donut shop chain, just imagine what I could do with several other franchise businesses. Bad idea. It did not work and earnings stagnated. Stock price... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
October 14, experts warned that “voluntary” carbon reduction targets being set at COP26 are far from sufficient to meaningfully address climate change. Methane, which is 60 to 80 times worse than CO2, they said, isn’t even part of the... View Details
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
month of completing your third course, please contact us through our Support Portal . Is there a discount offered for completing multiple courses? Yes. If you’re a new HBS Online learner, you’ll pay full price for your first course and... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
successful. The most successful competitors were those that commercialized products on either side of IBM's 360's price and performance standards; these included the much smaller Digital Equipment, with its stripped-down minicomputer, and... View Details
- Web
Harvard Business School
Development Center, and advising the student marketing association. In 1965, Fitzhugh moved to Pepsi-Cola, where he led the development of targeted marketing strategies. Fitzhugh consulted with major corporations and helped launch the... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
through the financial crisis, and Exxon has done the same in the precipitous drop in oil prices from $147 to $33 per barrel. I have spent a lot of time recently with leadership groups and the media discussing the "7 Lessons" and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
articles that journals don’t like, then you won’t get published in top journals and be an academic for long!” Research that targets a specific business problem runs the risk of appearing too narrow in focus to editors of general-purpose... View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
"Ted Levitt changed my life," wrote Barry Koh (HBS PMD 30, 1975). "In our very first class he opened my eyes to how people are motivated to make decisions. Before, I thought as an engineer—the best attributes and the best View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes... View Details
Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
Prescription drug costs continue to climb in the United States, but tightening a loophole in a federal law may help curb rising expenses, according to research published this week in Health Affairs. Efforts to control US health care spending commonly View Details