Bottom Of The Pyramid - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

used to make better decisions without the influences described above. It's why, for example, some successful investors simply choose stocks of the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 May 2019
News

Case Study: Building the Base

thinking reader’s alternative to the cesspool of anonymous comments at the bottom of a news story. With at least... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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enough information. Just like an HBS case. Abby Falik, MBA 2008 Founder & CEO, Global Citizens Year Play The HBS Case Method: Alumni Reflections video Play Video duration: 2:52 Celebrating the Inaugural HBS... View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

requirement. We are running around in a trillion-dollar industry at the bottom of the bottom View Details

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

more vehicles than they can sell and—unable to make money from new cars—turn to service and trade-ins to eke out margins. And at the bottom of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

SUMMING UP: Is collective pride the primary contributor to organization arrogance? There are three things that many respondents to this month’s column can agree on: (1) Pride is an attractive trait among members View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 May 2023
HBS Case

How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

the bottom of the pyramid.” When companies incentivize hostility From his humble beginnings, Stavros studied at Duke University and found his way... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

March 2014
Article

Why China Can't Innovate

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan

A look at how innovation is happening in China—from the top down, from the bottom up, through acquisition, and through education. Sheds light on the complexities of the issue, highlighting the promise and the problems China faces in its quest to become the world's... View Details

Keywords: Failure; Innovation and Invention; China

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Sustainable Capitalism: An Oxymoron?

In this talk, Professor Henderson will discuss both the risks and the tremendous opportunities inherent in harnessing the power of private enterprise to build a more sustainable world. She will also explore how people can hold the tension between the demands of the... View Details

23 Sep 2015
News

Carly Fiorina is corporate culture incarnate

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

both the United States and China the rewards of globalization are flowing disproportionately to an elite few. A 2003 Congressional Budget Office report found that View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

11 Dec 2017
News

Leadership Lessons from the Basketball Court

Chrissie Gorman (MBA 2012) created PowerForward with Duke basketball legend Coach K. to bring leadership and team-development lessons from sports to the business world. In this video, she explains the ground... View Details

15 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary

behavior, they do a search on Google when they are ready to make a decision," says Gupta. "So search ads get all the credit for the sale. But search ads are at the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

10 Aug 2017
News

Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

his day. Free refills, finding $5 in a coat pocket, that sort of thing. The blog, called 1000 Awesome Things started garnering a huge following and turned into a series of... View Details

22 Apr 2021
News

Leader, know thyself

02 Feb 2012
News

Study: Little Hope For Families Aiming For Long-Term Financial Prosperity

07 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?

most of their profit from fees paid by sellers; buyers don't pay fees. So although buyers are a necessary ingredient to the deal—no buyers, no sellers—their value is more difficult to quantify. To View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Web Services

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?

$50 billion price tag, he said he wanted to see the visible benefit. "If we believe that educational performance is a result of investment, it hasn't paid off," he said. "We have to look at... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Education

22 Aug 2010
News

Cut Benefits, but Do It Fairly

20 May 2013
Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

At an event at Harvard Business School that was three parts analysis and one part rally, participants tried to chart a new path forward for the sluggish US economy—a move that may require a new definition of... View Details

Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette

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