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23 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?

2000-2005 period covered in the paper, the number of titles that sold only a few copies each week increased twofold—yet the number of titles that didn't sell at all was four times as high as in 2000. The increasing clutter may be a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation

03 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

Big Business in Japan Authors:Anthony J. Mayo and Mayuka Yamazaki Publication:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 10 (October 2009): 30. (Conversation) Abstract At age 74, Yoshiko Shinohara is a towering figure in Japanese business. She has... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Dec 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

In an interview with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne, Harvard Business School professor Dorothy Leonard and research assistant Brian DeLacey discuss their research and the recent Adult Learning Workshop held at Harvard Business School. Silverthorne: A... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

Word, for example? The problem: Overshooting the market can open the way for disruptive technologies that are cheaper and simpler to take root. So Xerox was eventually disrupted by less expensive copiers from Ricoh and Canon, Western Union by the telephone, and View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

incorporating that knowledge into decision-making, and clarifying the possible responses. It has four generic steps that I'll outline here but direct the reader to the article for the methodology and a detailed example: Assemble and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

"we built a new team to develop and grow the midmarket because I knew the existing team would want to continue to pursue the big deals" even if they were charged with going after smaller ones as well. He's taking a similar... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

The turn of the 21st century has been laden with high-profile corporate scandals, prompting widespread concern about the standards of conduct followed by big business. Intrigued by the complexity of managing corporate behavior in a global... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

the growth of the tech centers was actually coming from the big population centers.” The rise of tech hubs What’s more, that growth isn’t stoked by long-standing companies shifting locations, like IBM did, but rather by new businesses... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

Lovett, Bohlen, and Kennan. They had similar educational backgrounds (Groton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton). Four had successful private sector careers as well as extensive public service. They shaped the post-WWII international scene while... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

experience, which makes them more productive. Say they join your company at age 24 or 25 and then after four or five years, they decide to start a family. They’ve got five years of work experience; they have a network inside the company;... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act

future. He also offers suggestions for avoiding the worst mistakes and gives advice for reviving your own company. For most companies, a big jolt in the industry landscape is a pretty rare event, Sull says. The travel industry, for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 May 2016
First Look

May 10, 2016

targeted firms. These results suggest a need to check the power of NPEs through changes in U.S. IP policy, in particular to screen out trolling early in the litigation process. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51034 forthcoming Economic... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

25 percent of your sales, you have a big problem. By using rewards programs, retailers give away things for free that their best customers would have bought anyway. With such a large volume of customers purchasing off the card, you have... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

operating business, like a specialized business field, so they went to companies like Procter or McKinsey, because that was where they could develop more business skills while they hung out and waited for their entrepreneurial opportunities to arrive. Sahlman: There's... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

secret-indicated that the A&P's stores were inferior to those of the four other leading chains. Sales per employee, for example, were almost 45 percent lower than at Jewel. Sales per store were almost 60 percent lower than at Food... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, this result masks the differences in entry size among startups that failed within three years of entry and those that survived for four years or... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Dec 2013
HBS Case

HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers

led to Morton's consideration of Buffett's offer to buy 63 newspapers from his highly leveraged company, which had experienced a 31 percent decline in revenues over the previous four years and a 90 percent plunge in stock price. Included... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Journalism & News; Publishing

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

As big box bookstores Barnes & Noble and Borders spread across the landscape in the 1990s, retail observers sounded the death knell for small, independent booksellers. But they had no idea of the onslaught that was coming. Amazon.com... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

28 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

greater risk and thus affects resource allocation. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1999484 Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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