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  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

waste into by-product. In some cases, when the markets for the primary and by-products are "separable," it is optimal to convert only a portion of the waste into by-product and disposing of the rest. In other cases, when the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

get intimidated, which served me well throughout my career in Fortune 500 companies, startups, and now as an entrepreneur. That case was the fork in the road of my career, and I have been in marketing ever since. It gave me confidence to... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 02 Aug 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

experiments. Booking.com conducts thousands of tests every month. Evidence from a test always trumps executive opinion. Even the failures that tests often produce are regarded as opportunities for learning rather than costly mistakes. The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 16 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

senior executives emphasize in their communications. We find that our measure of disclosure time horizon is associated with capital market pressures and executives' short-term monetary incentives. Consistent with the language emphasized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

prevailed through the difficulties of finding capital, and through the difficulties of her own very limited social position. In a market in which there weren't many realms where women could play, she found a way. "She lived on a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 27 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 27

not had lower costs of equity (lower stock returns), consistent with a stock market anomaly previously documented in other samples. A calibration suggests that a binding 10 percentage point increase in Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

collective advice, and a predictably high failure rate? Are resource-constrained entities more creative because they have to find ways of dealing with the constraints? One question posed by this panel member sums up the tension associated... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Web

Faculty - Private Capital Project

unit. His research examines when firms and entrepreneurs fail to make use of advice, new skills, and market opportunities and how these failures magnify existing inequalities. Nori Gerardo Lietz Senior... View Details
  • Web

1929: The Great Crash - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

the 1920s Research Links Site Credits 1929: The Great Crash Unique historical materials in Harvard University collections throw light on the role of the regional exchanges in the stock market crash of 1929, and the regulation of the... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

the world's foremost commercializer of products of new technologies in consumer electronics including the Walkman, Triton Color TV, the VCR, the CD (and CD-ROM), and the DVD. Matsushita became the industry's most successful firm in product development, production, and... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

organizations. The keystone's importance to ecosystem health is such that, in many cases, its removal will lead to the catastrophic collapse of the entire system. For example, WorldCom's failure had negative repercussions for the entire... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 02 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

years. Our aim was to come up with an objective measure of performance—one that was unrelated to arguments about market power, monopoly position, or predatory tactics. This meant we excluded any consideration of measures like View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

believe that the process of voting has resulted in an unacceptable outcome. More generally, we show that procedural justice plays a key mediating role in determining the relative success or failure of various empowerment initiatives—from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

financial strategy. If the company does not have a distinctive brand or market presence, a focus on identifying an attractive customer segment, such as through Harvard University professor Michael Porter's positioning framework, W. Chan... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Feb 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2006 (Revised October 2006)
  • Case

Best Buy Co., Inc.: Customer-Centricity

By: Rajiv Lal, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Irina Tarsis
With FY2005 sales of $27.3 billion, Richfield, Minn.-based Best Buy Co., Inc. was the leading retailer of consumer electronics, home-office products, and related services in North America. Its operations included the distinct store formats Best Buy, Future Shop in... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Service Operations; Business Earnings; Financial Crisis; Failure; Business Model; Leadership; Segmentation; Value Creation; Electronics Industry; United States; Canada; Mongolia
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  • 22 Jul 2019
  • Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

Failure to get that pricing right inevitably leads to decline. You can see examples in businesses like ridesharing. The first player in the space was a company called Sidecar that never was able to figure out the right pricing to drive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

thread," Land biographer Victor McElheny maintains. "There is a huge probability of failure to hit on a new technology that will make a market." 13 As he moved from the laboratory to the factory, from basic to applied research, Land... View Details
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

profit from their private information relating to a specific financial reporting element, goodwill impairments, prior to its incorporation by the equity market or recognition by the firm's accounting system. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

gain experience, they get worse at predicting timelines." Record venture capital investment and a surge of new businesses launched during the COVID-19 pandemic are raising the stakes for entrepreneurs. In a domain that prizes speed, View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne