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Jennifer DeWhitt

profit. And got herself suspended from school. “In high school, I fell into the legitimate side of business,” Jennifer says, laughing. She competed in mock-business competitions through Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA), and... View Details
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

Google will then obtain substantial power to increase prices: If Google increases prices, advertisers will be unable to shift to a competing provider to obtain a comparable quantity of traffic. Shifts to other kinds of advertising—be they... View Details
Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing
  • 07 Dec 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

strategic rationale of branding and its importance to competing effectively on the demand side of the economy. In a young market, he realized, consumers had to be able to identify a particular product's source, functional attributes, and... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
  • 24 Oct 2007
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

to compete they need to innovate. But finding sources of innovation while still paying attention to the current business can be a struggle. The good news, says HBS professor Lynda Applegate, is that one of the forces that threatens... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

New Releases

professor Sumantra Ghoshal. In The Differentiated Network: Organizing Multinational Corporations for Value Creation, Nohria and Ghoshal assert that the traditional, hierarchical "spoke-and-hub" forms of organization do not provide the flexibility required to View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Short Takes

companies with such plans do not perform better financially. Further analysis prompted Beer and Katz to conclude that the real role of bonuses is simply to attract highly qualified executives to a corporation. "Companies are forced into incentive systems to View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective

industrial model to the new information economy, said CEOs of incumbent (pre-Internet) companies are trying to compete with dot-coms, "but they get dot-com vertigo. They trust their senses, even after realizing they're wrong, and they get... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Case Study: Declawing the Competition

excellent customer service. However, we know this is a race that others can compete in, too, and that—with enough investment—our differentiators are replicable. What fundamental changes can we make to this market dynamic and/or our... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Porter Appointed to University Professorship

is particularly important to me since the scope of my work has broadened considerably over the years." Porter's first area of interest examines how firms compete in industries and gain competitive advantage. The next focuses on locations... View Details
Keywords: Doug Gavel; University Professorship; C. Roland Christensen; Sumner H. Slichter
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.

Harvard Square retail community, the Coop's number was almost up when Murphy arrived on the scene. As an old-style department store that carried everything from refrigerators to intimate apparel, the store was struggling to compete in the... View Details
  • March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
  • Supplement

OneTen At Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (B)

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
In January 2023, Delta Air Lines (Delta) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ed Bastian and his team had just launched the third iteration of an internal skills-first apprenticeship program, designed to move frontline employees into "merit" positions in four job categories.... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Diversity; Race; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Human Resources; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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  • November 2022
  • Case

Hiring with the Community in Saint Paul

By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
This case reviews Saint Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s decision to involve the community in the process of hiring his cabinet members. Rather than relying on an executive recruiting firm or choosing cabinet heads from his own network, Carter recruited 100 community members... View Details
Keywords: Community Engagement; Competency and Skills; Government and Politics; Human Resources; Government Administration; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Decision Making; Public Administration Industry; United States; Minnesota; Saint Paul
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  • February 2015
  • Case

Continental Hope Group

By: Christopher Marquis and Qi Li
This case provides an opportunity to examine and discuss how a traditional Chinese private business was launched and developed into a globalizing, multi-industry corporation. It also highlights how second generation entrepreneurs successfully developed an innovative... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; China; Technology; Real Estate; Talent Retention; Incentives; Talent and Talent Management; Diversification; Family Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Construction Industry; Tourism Industry; Energy Industry; Real Estate Industry; Chemical Industry; China
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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

When Smaller Menus Are Better: Variability in Menu-Setting Ability

Are large menus better than small menus? Recent literature argues that individuals' apparent preference for smaller menus can be explained by choosers' behavioral biases or informational limitations. These explanations imply that absent behavioral or informational... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Size; Quality
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  • 12 Jan 2023
  • News

Managers, Stop Distracting Your Employees

  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Faculty Research Online

HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career Can you predict whether star... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
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Jamal Motlagh

polo." Jamal competed on a high-school team that won regional championships each of his four years and nationals twice. Jamal continued to play water polo throughout college, reaching the Final Four in his junior year. But instead of... View Details
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Doba Parushev

Most people prefer to embrace security; Doba Parushev tends to run from it. "My life interests tend to go in two- to four-year stretches," he says. As a ten-year-old in Bulgaria, he competed nationally in math contests. But by... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Euro Vision

challenge was amplified—cofounding Index Ventures in 1996. "If we were going to compete with the best portfolios that were built in Silicon Valley," says Rimer, "we'd have to hunt far and wide across Europe." It's become a popular bet: VC... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
  • 20 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

is that people who should be allies are at cross-purposes with each other." The US Competitiveness Project put forth this definition: "The United States is a competitive nation to the extent that firms operating in the U.S. can View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette