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  • 29 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

not commercialize the innovations. It was Steve Jobs and his Apple team that saw the possibilities during visits in 1979 and made them the cornerstone of the Macintosh. In other words, while Xerox may have invented many wonderful things, it did not necessarily View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • 17 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

to make the $3.5 million Roadside Romeo. The first-of-its-kind animated Hindi movie barely broke even. All told, Hollywood studios invested an estimated $100 million on producing films in India between 2007 and 2009. But box-office View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 04 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

potential payoffs of e-commerce investments. Measuring returns on e-commerce projects can be a daunting challenge. Predicting customer behavior is difficult, because using the Web to do business is still relatively new to many businesses and thus forecasting sales and... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

Frei. Their customers are better off and the organizations earn a disproportionate share of the profits over their competitors. Frei, who spoke with HBS alumni on June 4 in a session titled "Capitalizing on the Power of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier

environment. While incumbents must learn and adapt to the new communications medium if they are to profit from it, pure-plays face the daunting task and expense of quickly building a new brand from ground zero to a profit-generating level... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • 27 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 27, 2016

case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-101 Management Control Systems Module 1: Managing Organizational Tensions This module lays the foundation for implementing strategy using management control systems. It... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2019
  • Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology
  • 13 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

efficacy, and efficiency, the only thing I know that can provide all four is business. Business provides them not through one single corporation, because corporations are born, prosper, and die, but through the industries that profitable... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

Thousands of large, profitable companies have all the right intentions of giving back to society—and yet a sizable number of them have corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs that provide little benefit to either the community or... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Rob Self

corporations to better serve the holistic needs of society? It’s quite exciting to see that many of my classmates are also interested in the broader good, less focused on corporate profits as the end-all, be-all. There are many... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Tax and Grow

absence of investment opportunities or from indecision among corporate executives. Once such indecision becomes widespread, it can quickly become self-reinforcing. Recent record corporate profits will only exacerbate this situation. If... View Details
Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • Web

Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

HBS Press Books in Brief

Relationships as Valuable Assets, by Robert C. Blattberg, Gary Getz, and Jacquelyn S. Thomas, is the first book to provide a unifying framework and practical tools for measuring customer value — the potential profitability of each... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight

Whether it’s an upfront enterprise on Main Street or illegal dealings on Mean Street, competition, risk management, and profitability are primary concerns in both business venues. That’s the theory behind the nonprofit Prison... View Details
Keywords: incarceration; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

A Mission in Motion

"bridge" year of service learning and leadership training in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Related Links Sizing Up Social Impact A Healthy Profit Making Change Bringing It Back Home Opening the Door Change begins in the classroom, too,... View Details
Keywords: summary

    Joe C. Thompson, Jr.

    Thompson expanded the chain now known as “7-Eleven” in hopes of helping his starving company. Boosted by the end of Prohibition in 1933, the retail chain, along with the temporarily revived ice business, helped return Southland to View Details
    Keywords: Retail
    • 09 Nov 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

    to entry were eliminated, and many new carriers entered the market. While deregulation resulted in a dramatic increase in air travel, it also fundamentally changed the profit potential of the industry. Under regulation, airlines could... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation
    • 17 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 17, 2006

    firms such as Elliot and Dart as "vultures" or "rouge creditors" who sought to profit on sovereign debt restructurings at the expense of countries suffering economic hardship and of the majority of bondholders whose... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 13 Jan 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: January 13, 2009

    Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation Authors:Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures from public shareholders, or whether LBO funds themselves are driven by... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Dec 2008
    • News

    Innovation as P&G’s Key

    behind how Naturella’s creator, Procter & Gamble, got inside the heads of those consumers is just one of many valuable insights related in The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation (Crown Business,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
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