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  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

vital to strategy implementation (for example, at exclusive hotel chains) or when the organizational design is highly complex because of sophisticated technologies and a complex value chain (in aerospace or... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 01 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Choose the Best Deal

should be a blessing in negotiation, of course. But picking the best possible deal takes careful planning. The set of techniques outlined here will put you on the right path. Beyond Batnas According to basic negotiation theory, Jim's... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • April 2020 (Revised June 2020)
  • Case

Oriental Land Co., Ltd.—Tokyo Disney Resort

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Akiko Kanno
This case describes the history of Oriental Land Co. Ltd.’s (OLC's) Tokyo Disney Resort (TDR), its operations, the extent of vertical integration, and the challenges it faced in 2018 as OLC's chairman and CEO, Toshio Kagami, contemplated how best to deal with... View Details
Keywords: Strategy For Multi-business Firm; Business Models; Growth; Theme Parks; Disney; Disney Parks; Licensing; Royalties; Two-part Tariffs; Oriental Land Co.; Tokyo Disneyland; Tokyo DisneySea; Tokyo Disney Resort; Tokyo Disney; Growth Strategy; Hotels; Hotel Industry; Partnership; Development; Attractions; Rides; Urayasu; Kagami; Congestion; Pricing; Amusement Parks; Amusement Park Industry; Brand; Branding; History; OLC; Corporate Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Business History; Price; Retention; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Agreements and Arrangements; Contracts; Operations; Vertical Integration; Problems and Challenges; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Expansion; Rail Transportation; Transportation Networks; Accommodations Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Tourism Industry; Asia; Japan; Tokyo; United States
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  • 22 Jul 2019
  • Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

exposure by hiring professional photographers to take photos similar to what a person would see for hotel listings. This decision was not only a differentiating factor from... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jun 2019
  • News

A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

Illustration by Decue Wu HBS professor Deepak Malhotra recalls the moment he learned about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, a tragedy that took the lives of 20 first-graders and six staff members on December 14, 2012. “I had... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

    OYO: Creating Effective Spaces

    Twenty-four-year old Ritesh Agarwal, founder and CEO of India-based online hotel branding network OYO Rooms, has tackled the issue of unreliability in India's highly fragmented budget hotel industry. In 2018, OYO branded 8,500 properties across 200 cities and... View Details
    • 26 Sep 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

    Power at the bargaining table is rarely distributed evenly. A job seeker lacking alternative offers is not going to have much "hammer" in salary discussions with a prospective employer. But what... View Details
    Keywords: by Mallory Stark
    • 13 Jan 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)

    reveal that they don't even look at alternatives to the chosen brand. Another option uses physiological or response latency measures. These often reveal that what consumers actually believe or think, as... View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
    • 01 Dec 2020
    • News

    A New Approach to Contact Tracing

    explores privacy issues in the case and writes of alternatives to TraceTogether that don’t provide governments access to any individualized contact information. “What the... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government
    • 11 Feb 2020
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

    However, that’s not the reality of the enterprise world. Big enterprises by default are averse to change unless they are convinced the alternative is worth their business development effort and the time... View Details
    Keywords: by Rocio Wu
    • March 2014
    • Article

    Cheating More for Less: Upward Social Comparisons Motivate the Poorly Compensated to Cheat

    By: Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein and Scott Rick
    Intuitively, people should cheat more when cheating is more lucrative, but we find that the effect of performance-based pay rates on dishonesty depends on how readily people can compare their pay rate to that of others. In Experiment 1, participants were paid 5 cents... View Details
    Keywords: Dishonesty; Social Comparison; Pay Secrecy; Motivation and Incentives; Fairness; Decision Making; Compensation and Benefits
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    • 04 May 2018
    • News

    How to Win the Kentucky Derby

    alternative to get into the construction business. Because I used to see my brothers, they worked so hard day after day. And I had a chance at 12 years old View Details
    Keywords: horse racing
    • 05 Dec 2012
    • What Do You Think?

    Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

    but with ability of the people handling this system." Alternatives to the use of predictions in the customary planning process were not ignored. Jean-Christophe Khuries suggested one when he asked:... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • Web

    How to Apply | Research Associates

    or skills, depending on faculty need. Applicants who do not meet minimum qualifications for a specific position may be considered for suitable alternative roles. A recruiter will share more information about this if applicable.... View Details
    • February 2021
    • Case

    Yellow Digital Retailers: Providing Solar Electricity to Transform Rural Africa

    By: Lynda M. Applegate, Frank V. Cespedes and Michael Norris
    In 2020, Mike Heyink and Maya Stewart, co-founders of the Pay-as-you-Go Solar company Yellow were considering how to grow their startup. They had achieved some success in their first market, Malawi, and had recently entered Uganda, where business was slower. What did... View Details
    Keywords: Solar Energy; Business Model; Business Startups; Developing Countries and Economies; Alternative Energy; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Green Technology; Salesforce Management; Diversification; Expansion; Energy Industry; Africa; South Africa; Malawi; Uganda
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    • 01 Sep 2022
    • What Do You Think?

    Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

    of China.” "It’s perhaps evidence that sanity still prevails in the business world." Before proceeding, I should insert a disclaimer. I was a member of a group of about a hundred faculty members called the Committee for Alternatives at... View Details
    Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
    • 01 Dec 2012
    • News

    The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding

    thought leadership. We must experiment more extensively with alternative modes of teaching, collaborate more (both internally and with other Harvard schools), and find ways to deliver more real-world... View Details
    Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan

      Chiara Farronato

      Chiara Farronato is Glenn and Mary Jane Creamer Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School, and co-Principal Investigator of the Platform Lab at the Digital... View Details

      • 08 Apr 2019
      • Sharpening Your Skills

      The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It

      Research released recently by iseecars.com seems to indicate a fleeting happiness with luxury cars. New buyers of BMW, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche sell them more frequently in the first year than owners of other models.... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto; Retail; Fashion
      • 01 Dec 1998
      • News

      A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

      Some of the best entrepreneurial ventures begin with a small revelation. For Luke O'Neill (MBA '95), the founder of a unique alternative high school in Massachusetts, that revelation came from an eight-year-old boy named Robert. As an... View Details
      Keywords: Deborah Blagg