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  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

who are focused on their existing and most profitable markets and don't see the threat coming from below. Exhibit A: The death of Digital Equipment Corp., which, along with a string of other minicomputer firms, was taken down by the PC... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 15 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

The ongoing pandemic is forcing a rethink of how the health care system operates in the United States as the death toll climbs, unemployment soars, and leaders debate how best to diagnose, vaccinate, and potentially treat millions of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 06 Sep 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?

suggesting that “both sides”—one group that included neo-Nazis and the KKK and another group of counter-protesters—were to blame for the violence, injuries, and deaths on or near the University of Virginia campus last month. This prompted... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Aug 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

understand why there are so many diarrhea-related fatalities in developing countries. (Diarrheal diseases account for one in nine child deaths worldwide, according to the Center for Disease Control.) This, despite the existence of an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health
  • 07 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity

deaths (and only those individuals who lived in the state of Maryland), while the other focused primarily on diseased individuals and their families (who were also able to authorize donations upon death) living both in and out of state.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 12 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers

nonprofit entrepreneurial ventures have begun to address the need for cadavers. Generally, recruiters for these ventures target those for whom death is likely to be top of mind. "They'll set up a stand at a retirees' convention, go... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health
  • 21 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

As big box bookstores Barnes & Noble and Borders spread across the landscape in the 1990s, retail observers sounded the death knell for small, independent booksellers. But they had no idea of the onslaught that was coming. Amazon.com... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 04 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

knew the goal of the procedure, and making sure they had ample blood available. Since the checklist system has been deployed throughout several operating rooms, he said, there has been an average reduction in death of 47 percent.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution

sector of our economy is more advanced and productive than ever," concludes Hammond. "As Mark Twain might have put it, any reports of its impending death are greatly exaggerated." View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail
  • 30 Jan 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

diversification and lower costs. So-called index funds became so popular that just before his death Bogle warned that their ubiquity could have a problematic effect on stock markets. Nevertheless, they were a primary factor leading to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services
  • 16 May 2016
  • HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

parasites, or chemicals to consumers. In 2010, 582 million cases of 22 different foodborne diseases resulted in 351,000 deaths worldwide, with salmonella, E.coli, and norovirus resulting in the greatest number of fatalities, according to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 16 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

dog.’” The team realized a market need for a website that helped people find pets—while also helping those who needed to find new homes for their pets, due to a death in the family, for instance, or dire financial circumstances. And so... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 10 Feb 2014
  • HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

boasted the nation's best safety record at the time, it still averaged 46 deaths per year. Four months into her tenure, Carroll learned of a fatality that occurred during her first visit to Rustenburg. "This organization is out of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

Star-Kist was under fire because its fishing practices for tuna in the eastern tropical Pacific involved accidental deaths of many dolphins, since tuna typically swim under schools of dolphins. Preliminary marketing research confirmed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

always the potential of a sort of death spiral taking place with these instruments if the market they're in turns sour? A: What I find more amazing is the extraordinary global progress that has been made over the past twenty-five years in... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

other pioneers have gleefully declared the death of the state. What their stories show us, though, is that while technology can gravely wound governments, it rarely kills them. Instead, governments survive because, ironically, both... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

age, there are more consumers than ever before suffering from chronic conditions. Most no longer see disease and the timing of their death as inevitable. Supported by the Internet, many actively seek out information to increase their odds... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

consultant at McKinsey and for Treasury Secretary Larry Summers for six years before joining Google at 32. When she and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began working together in 2007, Sandberg requested that Zuckerberg provide her with weekly feedback. After the tragic... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Growing CEOs from the Inside

HBS case study mentioned in Bower's book, Mulcahy drew counsel from a wide constituency of friends and acquaintances at the company to help set its future direction based on color printers and office services. Xerox has since rebounded from near View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Employment
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

the world's most dominant retailers. Could Brandless change the way consumers bought the essential items that filled their pantries and medicine cabinets? Industry pundits had long predicted both the death of brands and the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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