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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
publisher in Lowell whose products included Gideon Bibles. Another—which came his way via an Executive Education participant who was president of the Boston Bruins—was from a small company with about a million dollars in sales that... View Details
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
follow-up case, "Nanda Home," which Ofek began teaching this fall, revisits Nanda and her company, Nanda Home, a few years into Clocky's tenure, when sales had begun to flatten. Revenues in 2009 were $990,000, down from $1.5... View Details
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
With very clean emissions, 60 and 70 MPG fuel consumption, and lots of power, diesel compacts would provide stiff competition to hybrids. But GM has just lost its ability to develop small cars with the sale of its Opel subsidiary to... View Details
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
significant upfront costs in the form of severance. Pay cuts can be temporary or permanent. The challenge with salary cuts is that your best people, the ones with the most work options, may choose to leave the firm. A study of an inbound View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
model helps measure that." The Ideal Mix When planning marketing campaigns, brand managers have a wide portfolio of weapons to draw on, including in-store merchandising, advertising, coupons and sweepstakes, trade promotions, prices, and deployment of a direct... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
business called Panera Grocery. Normally a business like this would be launched, if you're lucky, in about 18 months to two years. Within 10 days, we put it up. And so that's one example of a windmill that we set up. Another one is we... View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
models to forge new sales channels, revenue streams, and customer segments. Could you give an example? Teixeira: Incumbents tend to respond to decoupling by gluing back the part of the value chain that was broken. The other alternative is... View Details
- Web
The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
sales would fall, and Land would have to let go of hundreds of employees. Land's patent attorney Donald Brown explained, "Before the end of the War Dr. Land had decided that the expansion of the company's business could most readily be... View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
are either promoted or fired. While these systems are intended to spur hard work and high levels of performance, they also introduce potential risks. The determination of winners and losers in a tournament-based reward system is rarely based on purely objective... View Details
- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
employs: Bean typically structures these around an outdoor activity such as hiking or cross-country skiing. For example, when sales of the once best-selling Crest Hiker began to decline, L.L. Bean assembled groups of testers, product... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- Web
Wilder House | About
when it became home to what is today called MBA Career & Professional Development, which supports students to identify and pursue their career goals, as well as partners with global organizations throughout the year that are interested in... View Details
- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
What do you do when the people with whom you are negotiating act in ways that can best be called counterproductive? Before throwing up your hands, take a deep breath and ask yourself 3 questions. Do these people lack good information? Are... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he... View Details
- 22 Sep 2022
- News
The Beauty Guide
be talking to you today if I hadn’t left marketing,” declares Freyre. The move to sales taught her about retailers, how consumers shop, and ultimately made her a better marketer and leader. “I tap into that diversity of experience every... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
BANCEL Throughout 2009 and 2010, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) had received upward of 20 calls from biotech companies asking him to come aboard and lead the company. It made sense. He was a highly recruited CEO successfully running... View Details
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
which has been the focus of her research during her yearlong study at HBS. She’ll present some of her findings at a June 29 workshop called “Capitalism and the Senses,” which “brings together scholars from various disciplines, including... View Details
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By: Karim R. Lakhani
Can America Invent Its Way Back?
BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008
Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
percent of sales or 10 percent of profits every year to fight the environmental crisis. As he approached age 80, “Yvon wanted to up the ante even more,” Conn says. The result was a new mission statement: We are in business to save the... View Details
- Web
Industry Information - Alumni
and news on emerging designers, disruptive technologies and global brands in the fashion and luxury goods industries. United States Census Bureau: Retail Trade Provides the industry monthly sales and inventory data, annual survey data... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
man at a welding station. "How's your daughter?" he calls to Jane as she takes a break from her sewing machine. Bullard knows most of the names of the 375 people employed by E.D. Bullard, the privately-held safety equipment company... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young