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  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

On a Sound Track

ANDRUS: Unemployed at graduation, an unlikely and inspiring odyssey takes him from his parents’ basement to the corner office of a company on the cutting edge. Photos by August Miller HBS Alumni of a certain vintage might recall a BusinessWeek article from a decade ago... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
  • 29 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

But it also means risk—and opportunity—for firms in the region. For example, if you don't have some complementary assets, such as better manufacturing, marketing, or product development, you are going to be at a severe disadvantage when View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing
  • 02 Jan 2020
  • Op-Ed

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

for All published by the Harvard Business Review. [Image: Hispanolistic] Related Reading Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete Making Health Insurance That Consumers Actually Like What... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration
  • 03 Feb 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?

employees. And several identified personally with the phenomenon. Desirable qualities of imposters were described in different ways. Julie Cohen said, “The balance of competency and occasional self-doubt keep them constantly striving to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Oct 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

through the lens of "sabermetrics" to compete with much better-funded organizations, achieving success with a relatively small investment. Writing recently in The New York Times, Cade Massey and Bob Tedeschi speculate on whether... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

that the markets between the very rich and the poor are disappearing. Those firms are losing the middle ground, where a lot of consumer activity has traditionally taken place. Companies also must compete for skills and talent. That has... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 04 Oct 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?

that unethical behavior can deny people their intellectual property." These are the latest examples of the effectiveness of speed as a competitive weapon that was described some years ago by George Stalk and Thomas Hout in their book, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 28 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

It’s India Above China in New World Order

their Foreign Policy article, "Can India Overtake China?" Lagace: "China and India are the world's next major powers," you both write. "They also offer competing models of development." What are the most... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Peeling Back the Global Brand

vary. A missing dimension to the global versus local debate is that global corporate brands compete with other global brands, said Holt. Consumers usually evaluate transnational brands through five different lenses, he said: Perceived... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences

sees her research as helping firms build actionable solutions to their business challenges. Sadun’s research is developed from management practice data that she and her colleagues compiled by interviewing business leaders across the globe. For instance, to determine... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

higher than inflation of the competing currency(ies). I also don’t understand how it can be “legal” tender for any period of time since, in general, governments want to control everything, especially money, if possible. — Pete Pifer (PMD... View Details
Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • Web

Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

will compete for $300,000 in cash prizes to fund their star... The Pitch: Roadblocks in Making the Case for Impact Investing Caitlin Reimers Brumme 16 Feb 2017 Just over one week ago, a select group of twenty general partners of U.S-based... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

A Roadmap for Moms

relaunching a career? The need for money to pay the bills is obviously a powerful motivator. If it’s the only motivator, then it’s hard to muster the enthusiasm for the positions you’re competing for. You have to feel really passionate... View Details
Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • Article

Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems

By: Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes and Alyson Falwell

Objective To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) to the safety and efficiency of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives.

Data... View Details

Keywords: Perspective; Opportunities; Safety; Performance Efficiency; System; Failure; Conferences; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Experience and Expertise; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

The Levitt Brand

LEVITT The details differ slightly, but the story, in its telling, is always the same. Ninety or so MBA students sit nervously awaiting the start of their first Marketing class. At the appointed time — not a minute more or less — a slight man with bushy eyebrows and an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • July – August 2009
  • Article

Restoring American Competitiveness

By: Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih
For decades, U.S. companies have been outsourcing manufacturing in the belief that it held no competitive advantage. That's been a disaster, maintain Harvard professors Pisano and Shih, because today's low-value manufacturing operations hold the seeds of tomorrow's... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Value; Production; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Government and Politics; Social Issues; Management Practices and Processes; Investment; Research and Development; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Competency and Skills; Service Industry; United States
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  • October 2019
  • Case

GRIT Fitness

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Olivia Hull
In December 2018, GRIT Fitness was a growing chain of boutique fitness studios offering a variety of workout classes, including weightlifting, high intensity interval training, and cardio dance. With 400 members and three Dallas studios, CEO Brittani Rettig believed... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Plan; Trends; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Health; Selection and Staffing; Leadership Style; Leadership Development; Management Style; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Motivation and Incentives; Sports; Competition; Diversification; Expansion; Value Creation; Health Industry; Sports Industry; Texas
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  • December 2018 (Revised May 2019)
  • Case

Bord Bia: Strategically Growing Irish Exports

By: Jose B. Alvarez, Forest L. Reinhardt and Emer Moloney
Agriculture was Ireland’s largest indigenous industry. Its agri-food sector was export driven, with almost 90% of production exported. Bord Bia was the Irish government agency charged with the promotion, trade development, and marketing of the Irish food, drink, and... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Trends; Disruption; Communication Strategy; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Public Sector; Trade; Education; Food; Geography; Geographic Location; Rural Scope; Corporate Governance; Government Administration; Information; Knowledge Dissemination; Marketing Channels; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Planning; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Public Opinion; Business Strategy; Diversification; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Public Administration Industry; Retail Industry; Republic of Ireland; United Kingdom; Europe
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  • 25 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

process does not have these features, deal price should receive no weight. This approach would represent a middle ground between the competing approaches advanced by 29 law, economics, and finance professors in the DFC Global appraisal,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

by asking: "How is the whole industry doing? Is it growing and expanding? Or is it static; or declining?" Then, having "sized up" the competitive environment, the student was to ask: "On what basis must any one company View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat