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13 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

machine learning tools in marketing. “You can’t do something in business, and then collect the data, and then expect the machine learning methods to spit out insight for you,” Amano says. “It’s important that throughout the process you View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

strategy consulting from a prior position in industry, government, or the nonprofit world—the MBA has long been viewed as absolutely essential. One dean, for example, noted that nearly 80 percent of students... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

Facebook’s vision and mission statement.” Brendan Coffey led the way in proposing that “FB needs a much more active strategy to place the user in a position of control with respect to how their data is used.” Bhanu Ramenani suggested one... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

percent of the economic gains of the past 30 years in the United States, other developed economies, and even the BRIC countries. Assuming for a moment that all of this is correct, what's the answer? First, is executive pay too high, or is the problem, as compensation... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 27

http://hbr.org/search/513091-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 913-420 Tim Blanchard at Jones Mendel & Co. Tim Blanchard struggles to balance all the demands facing him as a partner of a consulting firm. He must decide how to serve... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

challenge, Lal says. Pricing It Right Retail pricing is a high art, and Johnson is starting from scratch at Penney, replacing frequent sales—the company had 590 of them in 2011—with "Fair and Square everyday pricing." When outlining the plan in January he called the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Relative TSR (rTSR) is increasingly used by market participants to judge and incentivize managerial performance. We evaluate the efficacy, reasons, and implications of firms' benchmarks in rTSR-based contracts. Although compensation View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 24

review can help researchers identify high-quality teamwork surveys. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-116.pdf The Flattened Firm—Not as Advertised Author:Wulf Abstract For decades, management consultants and the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Teaching Interest

MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Competitive Strategy

02 Aug 2016
First Look

August 2, 2016

to first dates, people frequently experience performance anxiety. And when experienced immediately before or during performance, anxiety harms performance. Across a series of experiments, we explore the efficacy of a common strategy that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

What." Since 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Kind of Blue, it's a good time to ask: How did he do it? One of the answers is "radical simplicity," according to HBS professor Robert D. Austin and Carl Størmer, founding principal of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

industry. The Flattening Firm—Not As Advertised Author:Julie Wulf Publication:California Management Review 55, no. 1 (fall 2012) Abstract For decades, management consultants and the popular business press have urged large firms to flatten... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

for your product or service, as well as to remove the inhibitors to purchasing. The most successful companies follow this two-pronged strategy of providing a reason for the customer to buy, while eliminating annoying problems in the order... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

payments to support clients’ liquidity; helped salons apply to crisis relief funding such as unemployment support and rent postponement; hired consultants to create guidelines for safety measures in the salons, and shared them with each... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19

For decades, management consultants and the popular business press have urged large firms to flatten their hierarchies. Flattening (or delayering, as it is also known) typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

provided more opportunities for catch-up from the Rest. Firms from emerging markets had the opportunity to access the global networks that replaced large integrated firms. There were also new ways to access knowledge and capital, including through management View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an in-depth look at a single organization—the high-tech giant Rakuten—in the five years following its English... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Mar 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO

the CEO, with manageable consequences that are generally positive. Factor 1: Fit High performing companies require CEOs with the right skill set, decision style, and values. They have strong credibility with key stakeholders. They build strong executive teams that can... View Details

16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

famously said that, because it's nigh impossible to do both, leaders should opt for fear. Research from Harvard Business School's Amy Cuddy and consultants Matthew Kohut and John Neffinger refute that theory, arguing that leaders would do... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

November 1999 (Revised March 2001)
Case

Russell Reynolds Associates, 1999

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Rakesh Khurana

The president and CEO of Russell Reynolds examined the company's expansion strategy, especially in emerging markets. He evalulates how quickly the company should open new offices abroad and in which countries. View Details

Keywords: Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Expansion; Consulting Industry

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