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  • 17 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

of our interview with authors Rajiv Lal and José B. Alvarez, they discuss what the future of storefront retailing looks like and how its transformation will also change the economy and society. Sean Silverthorne: What is happening to the shopping mall? According to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 30 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

internet startups, two Stanford Graduate School of Business professors, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, wrote an influential book about “successful habits of visionary companies.” In it, they advanced their theories based on an extensive... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

to be published by Princeton University Press. In this recent interview conducted by e-mail, Lodge is hopeful that the World Development Corporation will be formed. He explains why nonprofits aren't the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

customer needs both today and tomorrow, and the other that is focused on crazy innovation." Leaders who strike the balance well, note O'Reilly and Tushman, do so by mitigating the effects of separation with a structure that... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • March 2012
  • Article

A 2-phase Labeling and Choice Architecture Intervention to Improve Healthy Food and Beverage Choices

By: Anne Thorndike, Lilian Sonnenberg, Jason Riis, Susan Barraclough and Douglas E. Levy
Objectives: We assessed whether a 2-phase labeling and choice architecture intervention increased sales of healthy food and beverages in a large hospital cafeteria. Methods: Phase 1 was a 3-month color-coded labeling intervention (red="unhealthy" yellow="less healthy"... View Details
Keywords: Health; Sales; Change; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

unemployed, and demands for police reform and racial justice. But in the wake of one of the most tumultuous presidential elections in US history—marked by outgoing President Donald Trump claiming the election was stolen, deadly violence... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • April 2014
  • Article

Can an 'Ethical' Bank Support Guns and Fracking?

By: Christopher Marquis and Juan Almandoz
A case study is presented on business ethics and bank management. The situation facing the president of a community bank established to operate as a green business and to consider ethical issues of bank loans when it is considering an application for a large commercial... View Details
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  • 01 Mar 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

in September, 2000. It described the enthusiasm at that time for a "New Economy," one driven by information technology and characterized by “greater growth and lower unemployment than ever before... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

golddiggers, each scrambling to carve out new territories and stake their claims in them. There are people like Marc Andreessen and Jerry Yang (the respective founders of Netscape and Yahoo!), who ventured west to test their mettle and... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

stamp of approval in the marketplace." U.S. venture funds didn't put on much muscle, however, until 1978, when pension funds got the green light to pour greenbacks into the coffers of venture capital and private equity firms. Some... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services
  • 08 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

finalize a deal, but that's often not enough. Many countries have webs of influence that are more powerful than the actual parties making the deal, even though those webs don't have the formal standing of, say, government agencies. In Japan, it may be the keiretsu—... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 30 Sep 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”

difficult for a school to create the equivalent of a tough childhood, a religious revelation, or a life and death experience." Setting aside the issue, Shaun Greene even questioned the importance of crucibles of leadership, raising... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 25 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier

forthcoming book Digital Marketing (John Wiley & Sons), edited by Jerry Wind and Vijay Mahajan, John Deighton and coauthor Patrick Barwise of the London Business School identify three qualities that... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

configured as "traditional centers," familiar-looking branches that provided conventional banking services, though often supported by new technologies and redesigned processes. The group unveiled its first redesigned branch—a... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The Fight Beyond

B-17s instead touched down on the dirt runway at Tri Duby airfield, miles behind German lines. When James Holt Green (MBA 1935) dropped out of the forward crew hatch he was surrounded by a throng of... View Details
Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook
  • 06 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

When Product Variety Backfires

series of questions, the answers to which would result in the recommendation of a particular golf ball. By saying you tended to hit far but off line, you'd have one ball recommended to you. By saying you... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products
  • 11 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

investments by sharing in the profits generated by broadcasting rights and advertising revenues. The founders initially placed a $100 million fundraising target on the fund, which will invest in young... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services
  • 08 Nov 2024
  • HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

serve, so he joined the Red Cross and went overseas as an ambulance driver. In Paris, he found purpose in chauffeuring military command officers around the city to meetings. Disney brought to this endeavor a keen sense of fun and theater: He covered his View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation
  • July 2023
  • Supplement

Reimagining Enel: Enabling Sustainable Progress (A)

By: Michael Tushman and Kerry Herman
This case describes the transformation of Enel from a traditional “brown” or fossil fuel energy firm to a sustainable and green firm focused on renewables, and finally to an energy supplier and integrated energy services firm. It describes a set of capabilities... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Innovation and Invention; Transformation; Green Technology; Renewable Energy; Energy Industry
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  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

In what is believed to be the largest study of its kind, MBA students at Harvard Business School recently analyzed the financial returns generated by 110 early-stage companies backed by Investors' Circle, a... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls