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- 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
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
accountability. Focused tightly on the bottom line, these companies don't know how to quantify the value of legacy functions, which often evolve... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
the company's bottom line, while also protecting or enhancing the company's reputation. "The CSO is really driving the execution View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Raising the bar to provide quality education
my husband and I—he’d been involved from the beginning at ARK—we moved to California and decided we wanted to help children in our backyard there. We serve a population of low-income, mostly minority... View Details
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
Or when organization development efforts are curtailed? Or when knowledge development is subcontracted to an army of "free agents?" Or when employees are discouraged from engaging in too much "water cooler time" in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive
Clubs News Clubs News Guided by Harvard Business School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, the HBS Global Alumni Clubs & Associations Network provides thousands View Details
- 12 Dec 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Sustainability Drive Innovation at Ferrari?
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1
planning process. We wanted to get to the bottom of what they liked or disliked, what made them frustrated, and more. 2. End with the customer.... View Details
- Blog
Inside the Learning: Sustainability—on Campus and Beyond
environment-related research conducted by HBS faculty Listen to timely interviews in our Climate Rising podcast Explore some of the many ways companies are improving sustainability today Read a recent... View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
presence of iTunes has a negative impact on the size of p2p networks resulting in reduced congestion and more efficient file sharing. Better functioning p2p networks, in turn,... View Details
- February 2016 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Greening Walmart: Progress and Controversy
By: Rebecca Henderson and James Weber
In 2005, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, launched a sustainability initiative aimed at reducing waste and making the company more environmentally and socially conscious. By 2015, the company had made progress on multiple dimensions: energy efficiency in its... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business or Company Management; Motivation and Incentives; Reputation; Environmental Sustainability; Retail Industry; United States
Henderson, Rebecca, and James Weber. "Greening Walmart: Progress and Controversy." Harvard Business School Case 316-042, February 2016. (Revised February 2017.)
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
In the fall of 2009, baseball's Anaheim Angels knocked the Boston Red Sox out of the American League Division... View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- News
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
- 05 May 2021
- News
Facebook’s Non-decision on Banning Trump Settles Nothing
- 20 Nov 2019
- Video
Shinta Widjaja Kamdani
Shinta Widjaja Kamdani, owner of Indonesian-based consumer products and energy company Sintesa Group, discusses facing the perception by male employees of her as a “spoiled kid” who succeeded because she was... View Details
- February 2009 (Revised June 2010)
- Background Note
Note on Measuring Controlling Shareholder's Ownership, Voting, and Control Rights
Founders and their families can raise equity without relinquishing control of their companies through the use of mechanisms such as dual-class stock, pyramidal ownership, voting agreements, and disproportionate board representation. The use of these mechanisms in... View Details
Keywords: Equity; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Measurement and Metrics; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation
Villalonga, Belen. "Note on Measuring Controlling Shareholder's Ownership, Voting, and Control Rights." Harvard Business School Background Note 209-109, February 2009. (Revised June 2010.)
- 18 May 2011
- News
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
Summing Up Do increases in social sector productivity, which seem to prevail at least in the U.S., benefit consumers at the expense of workers? Or is View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
The health insurance system in the United States is broken, and business is paying the price. Employers' insurance premiums reached an estimated $450 billion in 2000, and then... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Robert J. Dolan
Professor Dolan's research interests including product policy and pricing. These areas have been the subject to two books, Managing the New Product Development Process and Power Pricing:How Managing Price Impacts the Bottom Line. In addition, he works on the societal... View Details