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25 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

autonomous, product-focused model to an account-centered matrix structure and will challenge many elements of the company's current organizational design including accountability, revenue and cost allocation, compensation systems, sales and marketing, and also the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Strategy and the Internet

offering a different set of features, a different array of services, or different logistical arrangements. The Internet affects operational effectiveness and strategic positioning in very different ways. It makes it harder for companies... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter

11 Oct 2016
First Look

October 11, 2016

This strategic response is more pronounced for vendors whose stocks of patents are small and whose home markets have weak IP systems. Our study is the first to examine the relationship between heterogeneity in national patent systems and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

handset business made up increasingly large shares of its operations. In early 2008, on the strength of sky-rocketing sales in those areas and by resurgent sales of Macintosh products, Apple's revenues and its stock price reached record... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 8

and so on—has the perverse effect of making you just like everyone else. Youngme's message is simple: Get off the competitive treadmill that's taking you nowhere. Aspire to offer the world something that is meaningfully... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

Boeing's e-Enabled Advantage Harvard Business School Case 807-011 Examines Boeing's new strategy of offering services to regain market dominance and help its struggling airline customers improve efficiency and profitability. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

companies and is adjacent to the Harvard i-lab and Launch Lab. The first floor consists of 50 coworking spaces designed to be family friendly with a fully stocked kitchen, office supply center, conference rooms, lockers, filing cabinets,... View Details

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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

Harvard Business School Online is collaborating with the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard to offer access to generative AI lessons—for a limited time. Learn More Free Cheat Sheet Financial Terms Cheat Sheet This cheat sheet... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

09 Apr 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

the month" motivate higher performance? Not really—and they may turn off your best employees altogether. Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill Everyone comes to the table with some amount of "altruistic capital," a View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

of Chicken. Both sides make threats in an effort to change their counterpart's behavior or beliefs. You might threaten to take your business elsewhere unless the other side sweetens her offer or pursue litigation if she refuses to address... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

twentieth century, securities in the form of stock became the preferred way of raising capital, and Lehman Brothers issued its first public stock offering for the International... View Details

05 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

executed by bankers, managers, and investors during the 1990s—trading foreign stocks and bonds, borrowing in foreign currencies—had been illegal in many countries only decades, and sometimes just a year or two, earlier. How and why did... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision

"should" items when the impact will be felt in the future. They also talk about their related research on DVD rentals—should I rent the good-for-me documentary An Inconvenient Truth or the entertaining Pirates of the Caribbean—and View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Retail; Entertainment & Recreation

07 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 7

644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate from the incumbent following increased service quality (price) competition only when the incumbent View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Jul 2022
What Do You Think?

Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?

distribution channel on overall inventory levels and costs. One thing that may have helped generate the HBS offer was an experiment I performed using my own crude version of what would become known as the “beer game.” In my approach, my... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

20 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

the Renaissance, one of the most innovative eras in history. Put simply, innovative thinkers connect fields, problems, or ideas that others find unrelated. The other four discovery skills trigger associational thinking by helping innovators increase their View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

03 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

requires careful dosing, consideration of harmful side effects, and close supervision. We offer a warning label to accompany the practice of setting goals. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-083.pdf Virtual Team... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Nov 2023
Blog Post

The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

in a thriving business when a job offer comes from a company you’ve always admired that’s on the brink of bankruptcy. The risks are tremendous but so are the potential rewards – to you and society. This situation brings to mind the... View Details

February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
Case

Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment

By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal

This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing,... View Details