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- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
industrial complex that limits healthy competition in order to promote its continued growth and caters to the power and profit-driven demands of its best customers instead of... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- November 2021
- Article
Ratings, Reviews, and the Marketing of New Products
By: Itay P. Fainmesser, Dominique Olié Lauga and Elie Ofek
We study how user-generated content (UGC) about new products impacts a firm's advertising and pricing decisions and the effect on profits and market dynamics. We construct a two-period model where consumers value quality and are heterogeneous in their taste for the new... View Details
Keywords: Online Reviews; Product Ratings; Social Networks; Word Of Mouth; Pricing; User-generated Content; Advertising; Product Marketing; Price; Consumer Behavior; Product Positioning; Social Media
Fainmesser, Itay P., Dominique Olié Lauga, and Elie Ofek. "Ratings, Reviews, and the Marketing of New Products." Management Science 67, no. 11 (November 2021): 7023–7045.
- 03 May 2023
- Blog Post
Five Ways to Build Community at HBS
you can build a remarkable network here. Although the roughly 92 section mates are key to the experience, the ~1000 classmates in total offer a wider range of affinity groups and interests for you View Details
- 03 Jul 2008
- What Do You Think?
Are Followers About to Get Their Due?
leadership styles." And H. C. Garner stated, "If you can't be led, you certainly can't effectively lead." And Bruce Duncil commented, "Leaders can only be defined by and through their following... Kellerman's noting a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
New World are becoming much more knowledgeable about wines. At the same time, I think that New World wineries in countries such as Australia have learned to sell to consumers in the U.S. much more View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
very fast, agile. They attract people who play around with crazy ideas." The idea is to bring back that agile, experimental, silo-free network. Under his new system, everyone works within a traditional hierarchy, but that hierarchy... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 2000
- Book
Competitive Environmental Strategy: A Guide to the Changing Business Landscape
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Environmental concerns can greatly affect business success, regardless of whether a business person or corporation shares those concerns. Today's corporate managers must understand the power of environmental issues, and shift their mindset from one focused on... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Environmental Management; Social Issues; Organizational Change and Adaptation
Hoffman, Andrew J. Competitive Environmental Strategy: A Guide to the Changing Business Landscape. Island Press, 2000.
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
offices, kitchen tables, and bedrooms. Parents suddenly needed to juggle homeschooling while learning how to be effective remote workers. Working from home during a global... View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
- 31 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Transitioning From the Military to Business School
doing well. Because of this, in the midst of a schedule filled to the brim with cases and recruiting, I found it difficult to effectively balance my priorities. Midway through... View Details
- 09 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech
straining experience to place all hope in a clinical trial when facing limited options. Throughout my time working in biotech, I came to realize that having empathy, on a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Franklin H. Coursen (PMD 25, 1973) Harwich Port, MA Regulation Works I am glad that HBS faculty members favor improved regulation to avoid future financial meltdowns. Regulation is not antithetical to market... View Details
- 2003
- Book
The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World
By: Bhaskar Chakravorti
Innovation's encounter with the market results in a game of both high risk and high stakes. Often its outcome defies common sense: Superior new products flop, unlikely ideas become runaway hits, and—despite rapid technological advances and intense... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
From Bench to Board: Gender Differences in University Scientists' Participation in Commercial Science
This paper examines gender differences in the participation of university life science faculty in commercial science. Based on theory and field interviews, we develop hypotheses regarding how scientists' productivity, co-authorship networks, and institutional... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; For-Profit Firms; Gender Characteristics; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Governing and Advisory Boards; Science-Based Business; Nonprofit Organizations; Biotechnology Industry
Ding, Waverly W., Fiona Murray, and Toby E. Stuart. "From Bench to Board: Gender Differences in University Scientists' Participation in Commercial Science." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-014, August 2010.
- 27 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS
business. This really helped me determine what type of role within the beauty industry I would like most and I had 2+ years to figure it out by being a 2+2 admitted student. I chose HBS for many reasons: my Peek experience, the case... View Details
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
by relevant "experience," which is the most frequently used criterion by sales managers. In his new book, Aligning Strategy and Sales, Cespedes discusses why the gap is so common—and outlines effective steps View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Blog
Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives
and email cover letter, you'll need a personal elevator pitch that will help you effectively convey your strengths and what you bring to the table. Describing yourself and your search for a board position... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- Blog Post
Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago
Operating Officer of Accion Chicago, a nonprofit that helps communities grow by providing capital, coaching and connections to aspiring entrepreneurs who build businesses and generate jobs in their neighborhoods. I spent most of my career... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
limited time and limited knowledge. Therefore, it's very important for independent directors to be in the best positions they can be for developing their knowledge. Those... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
Rush Limbaugh. Stern was an especially effective spokesperson. He got to know the founders of the business personally and conveyed to his listeners a genuine and infectious... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
Anthony Mayo—members of the School’s Organizational Behavior Unit recognized for their excellence in the classroom—quickly realized they needed to reinvent the way they taught. “We had to rethink basic... View Details