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  • 19 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

the consumer products giant Unilever, published some years ago. This company had a long-established business in soap and other toiletries, but spent decades after World War II striving without great success to expand its business into other categories of the beauty... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

deductibles. We show how choice difficulties or biases may lead patients to respond to such increases in patient cost-sharing by reducing demand for high-value care, muddying the traditional argument that the price elasticity of demand for medical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

unexplored dimension. Deliberate Learning to Improve Performance in Dynamic Service Settings: Evidence from Hospital Intensive Care Units Authors:I. M. Nembhard and A. L. Tucker. Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World

1770. “ the Care and Labour of providing for artificial and fashionable Wants, the Sight of so many Rich wallowing in superfluous Plenty, whereby so many are kept poor distress’d by Want. The Insolence of Office, the Snares and Plagues of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Drop Everything, Read This

Hadley Vlahos, a hospice nurse. The book offers a poignant glimpse into her encounters with individuals nearing the end of their lives and the families accompanying them. Vlahos’s experiences are compelling and highlight how those in a position to opt for hospice View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 21 Mar 2019
  • HBS Case

The Ferrari Way

future,” the driver said. “But I do know that any new technology will be deployed in our car the Ferrari way.” In practice, that means a careful balancing of three elements: driving pleasure, performance, and style. As the company’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto
  • 27 Jul 2020
  • Book

Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

needed to examine problems, figure out solutions, and get things done. Many of the managers Badaracco interviewed found ways to pause and put their mental machinery into a lower gear, letting their minds unfocus, and resisting the urge to feel View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

represented a futures market in which buyers and sellers made deals before the cotton was harvested or brought to the factories. Later, Lehman Brothers branched out into other commodities and joined the Coffee, Sugar, and Cocoa Exchange, and the New York Petroleum... View Details
  • 03 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Succeed With Your New Boss

things fast when you know that the business has serious structural problems. So it is wise to get bad news on the table early and to lower unrealistic expectations. Be careful to assess your new organization's capacity for change before... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
  • 27 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

they could decide whether to continue working or take personal time during a two-month severance period. While most workers took the two months off to find a new job or take a break, the woman kept showing up to the office, and when new... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Nov 2018
  • HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

entrepreneurial culture, knowing experimentation would be critical to discovering how data could be woven into the company’s business practices. His colleagues followed this mantra: develop, test, measure. Yet they couldn’t just continue... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

intrinsic motivation. Rather than dispensing goal setting as a benign, over-the-counter treatment for motivation, managers and scholars need to conceptualize goal setting as a prescription-strength medication that requires careful dosing,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

we now see an industry back on its heels, massively disrupted by an external force so unprecedented it is almost unfathomable. The severity of this business interruption will continue to endure and be further complicated by the mandate of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • June 2020
  • Article

Waiting to Inhale: Reducing Stigma in the Medical Cannabis Industry

By: Kisha Lashley and Timothy G. Pollock
When a new industry category is predicated on a product or activity subject to ‘‘core’’ stigma—meaning its very nature is stigmatized—the actors trying to establish it may struggle to gain the resources they need to survive and grow. To explain the process of reducing... View Details
Keywords: Stigma; Cannabis Industry; Deviance; Public Opinion; Moral Sensibility; Health Care and Treatment
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  • 26 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

deeply hit by pandemic and seismic culture shifts, it’s important to recognize that many of the Japanese companies in the Tohoku region continue to operate today, despite facing serious financial setbacks from the disaster. How did these... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Aug 2022
  • Book

University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

what kind of nation we’ve become if we let these most valuable assets slip into a period of decline.’” Why should elite private universities care about the decline of public schools? “Make no mistake: the slow-motion defunding of US... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
  • 13 Feb 2020
  • Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

careful to avoid saying things that might inhibit input. When an employee complains about a problem, for example, managers should resist the urge to correct the record or say things like, “That’s not true,” because it’s the kind of thing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Article

The Influence of Ownership on Accounting Information Expenditures

This paper analyzes the association between ownership, top management incentives, and expenditures on accounting information. We argue that organizations with privately appointed boards of directors such as for-profit and non-governmental nonprofit organizations use... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Motivation and Incentives; Accounting; Health Care and Treatment; Ownership; Health Industry
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  • 22 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

are so many salespeople so terrible at managing? It’s because even after they put on their manager hats, they continue to suffer from the “super salesperson syndrome,” unable to disconnect from the thrill of selling. They hover over their... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Dec 2022
  • Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

“Great Resignation” and other challenges from a constantly changing competitive landscape? First, these companies have CEOs—indeed, leaders at all levels—who care equally about profits and employee well-being and don’t see them as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer