new year's resolutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

in a unified European market with the introduction of the Euro. This new landscape offers new business opportunities and possibilities to write cases that show very multicultural environments fairly unique... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

January 2023
Case

Gerald Weiss (2023)

By: Brian J. Hall, Carleen Madigan, Andrew Wasynczuk and Caroline Witten

Gerald Weiss left Wall Street for the promise of a CFO position at a well-established corporation. He was given a 10-year options package with a guaranteed floor of $12 million and unlimited upside. To ensure the entire package would be worth at least $12 million after... View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Resignation and Termination; Executive Compensation; Organizational Culture; Agreements and Arrangements; Stock Options; Conflict and Resolution; New York (city, NY)

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01 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

Learn How To React When commercializing a new technology requires the resolution of both technical and market uncertainty, one cannot expect to be able to anticipate the best path forward from the very... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical

12 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

Even as polarized political discussion appears to have frozen the possibility of compromise, new research suggests that divided sides can come together on many issues to make decisions. “Our research finds that inaccurate beliefs really... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

thoughts on the rising price of onions in India? A: This is very bad news for the incumbent government, since the price of onions is a harbinger of electoral distress. It is a bellwether consumer price in India, given its status as a... View Details

Keywords: by Zeenat Potia

09 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 9

rationales for forming the relationship) are endogenous to the matching process, while others (those that are incidental to the formation of the relationship) may be conditionally exogenous, thus enabling causal estimation of peer effects. We illustrate this idea in a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

more as we move into the fall. In the meantime, chances are we can expect a significant amount of market volatility. So what do we do now? For starters, I believe that the federal government must focus on entitlement reform, new revenues,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

18 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands

At last year's Grammy Awards, singer Pharrell Williams wore such an outlandish hat—a cross between Smokey the Bear's forest-brown lid and The Sorting Hat at Gryffindor—that it quickly received its own Twitter account. Then some marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

customers over long periods of time. What's the secret of long-running megabrands such as Mountain Dew, Nike, and Budweiser? The magical sweet spot when a brand delivers imaginative stories that are perfectly attuned to society's desires. His View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation

a family business? What's the strategic way to make concessions? How Can I Negotiate More Skillfully And Confidently? Negotiating in Three Dimensions "Negotiation is increasingly a way of life for effective managers," say HBS professor James Sebenius and colleague... View Details

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

Starbucks claims the world's largest Wi-Fi network, with some 2,200 stores offering wireless connectivity to latte sippers for a charge. That number will climb to 3,000 by year's end, according to the company. Darren Hostin, of Starbucks... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

interview, "Start the [new] year with a new face." This slogan was so successful that Estée Lauder and the retailer used it for decades as part of their annual New View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

06 Sep 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom

Each year, MIT, local business groups, and state agencies co-sponsor a competition designed to encourage the development of new technologies that focus on clean, renewable, or efficient energy resources. One of our teams developed last... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

When TV Nova launched in 1992 as the first new television channel in post-communist Czechoslovakia, few might have imagined the joint-venture drama unfolding behind the scenes. Distinguished for bringing Baywatch, soccer matches, and sexy... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

cooperative problem solving. Parties conducting internal negotiations within well-run companies are likely to improvise in this manner. If you've successfully negotiated a new job assignment after a promotion, you've probably used a... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

& Poor's. European policymakers, in contrast, have sought to create new rules for the international system and empower international organizations, such as the EU, OECD, and IMF, to enforce them. French policymakers invented the... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

commoditized. As consumers, we see this in the ever-decreasing retail selling price of flat panel TVs. The screen sizes get bigger, the resolution moves from HD to Ultra HD to 4K, and the prices keep dropping. This happens in spite of the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements.... View Details