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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
course neither of you have visited or playing a video game together can test how you collaborate or handle competition. You might also consider working on a start-up related project together to see how that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
researchers conducted an experiment in which white participants engaged in a two-person guessing game designed—unbeknownst to them—to measure their tendencies toward attempted racial colorblindness. Each participant was given a stack of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers
eating gummies, and they’re like, ‘Oh, it’s the revised gummy, yum yum, it tastes better,’” says John. In another study in which participants played a video game labeled as “version 5,” they even reported... View Details
- Web
Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work
outcomes such as higher retention and better engagement. Read the Report Featured Videos Joseph Fuller Why Employers Should Care About the Care Economy Why Employers Should Care About the Care Economy Joseph Fuller Joseph Fuller Measuring... View Details
- 23 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Brand a Next-Generation Product
video game consoles, for example) or the complete name change approach (Nintendo's Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii). The professors conducted a series of experiments to determine when and why each approach made... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- March 2016 (Revised May 2018)
- Case
Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales. These results were in marked contrast... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Reinventing Best Buy." Harvard Business School Case 716-455, March 2016. (Revised May 2018.)
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
terms. One example is MPEG-2, a digital video compression standard used in products including DVD and high-definition television. The standard was developed by the International Organization for Standardization, but during the completion... View Details
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Strategist?
powerful impact on practice. But the benefits have not come without costs." Montgomery maintains that strategy has been narrowed to a competitive game plan, separate from a firm's larger sense of purpose. This has led to the eclipse of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
consumers make complementary choices in purchase decisions (e.g., chips and salsa), product inter-operabilities (smartphones and networks), and dynamic decisions (current exercise and future healthcare consumption). Multiple consumers make complementary choices when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Regional Winners - Alumni
faster to implement. Rajiv Singhal, MBA 2007, CEO & Founder Region: Europe and International Closing Theory Studios Closing Theory Studios is a mobile game development company creating games like Househunt,... View Details
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Winners & Runners-Up 2024 Winners Play Crop Diagnostix: Dubilier Grand Prize Winner, Student Business Track, 2024 New Venture Competition video Play Video duration: 1:31 2024 New Venture Competition Winner,... View Details
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
impact on their energy-conserving behaviors. Yates and Laskey redesigned the home energy bill to include normative messaging, including feedback on how consumers' energy usage compares to their neighbors' usage. Through early trials of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
HBS Lingo 101
It is home to the dining hall, game room, US Post Office, Harvard COOP, MBA offices, and more. START: START week is the first official welcome for the new class of MBA students. START takes place over the... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
monetize online access to content. Programming changes, new advertising strategies, and deals via online distribution platforms are presented as means to capture the value of online video consumption. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
What do Porsche fanatics, a video game hater, and a person who cooked two weeks' worth of meals in a rice cooker have in common? They are all "extreme consumers"—those whose tastes are so out there that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
experience with 96 participants on a wall of video screens interacting with a faculty member in the Live Online Classroom studio. Because of its success, this virtual learning mode has replaced one of the on-campus modules, which shortens... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
essential research tools—Markov decision process, game theory and information economics, queueing games, econometric methods, and data science—by illustrating their uses and applicability on examples from diverse healthcare settings, thus... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
The Caring Company
care crisis. The economics of care are misaligned in most companies. Employees don’t get the support they need for their caregiving responsibilities and employers pay the hidden costs, including turnover, rehiring, presenteeism, and absenteeism. Read the report.... View Details
- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
at first company officials cited all kinds of outside influences that were doing damage, including the video game fad, increased global competition, and even dropping birth rates. But newly appointed... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman